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).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, PDF, or RTF document file format.
• All author information such as names, contact information, and affiliations has been removed from the main article text. The authors may provide their information in the title page.
• The manuscript is prepared using the journal's template and formatted accordingly.
• The title page has been prepared as per the template provided and included in the submission.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.