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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Any third-party-owned (copyrighted) material included in your manuscript (e.g., images, illustrations, etc.,) has been identified with appropriate source citation, and if necessary, permission obtained from the rights holder for its inclusion.
  • Your manuscript follows the template guidelines provided by EERN.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • All DOIs (preferably) or URLs (if a DOI is not given) for references have been included, along with last access date - where available.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section, confirm the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed. For all other submissions, please check this box anyway - your manuscript will only undergo editorial review.
  • Please check this box to indicate that you are happy for your submission to be published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence.

Author Guidelines

Formatting Requirements
In addition to using the templates previously provided, please maintain the following requirements: 
  • Spacing: 1 space between paragraphs, 2 spaces between each section, 1 space between a section heading and paragraph
  • Tables, Figures, Diagrams: each must have a number and caption that is centred and in italics, with a full stop after the number only. For example: Figure 1. Insert Title Here
  • Reference List: references must be justified to the left (no indentation), complete and consistently formatted, with 1 space between each reference and a full stop at the end of each reference
  • Keywords: must not be in all capital letters
  • Affiliation: for consistency, it is formatted as Department, University, Country

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If accepted for publication authors’ work will be made open access and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) license unless previously agreed with Editor prior to submission.

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Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. (see: The Effect of Open Access).

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