Format

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

Article length/word count

Articles should be between 4000  and 7000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices. Please allow 280 words for each figure or table.

Article title

A concisely worded title should be provided.

Author Details

The names of all contributing authors should be added to the Scholar One submission; please list them in the order in which you’d like them to be published. Each contributing author will need their own Scholar One author account, from which we will extract the following details:

Author email address (institutional preferred).

Author name. We will reproduce it exactly, so any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included.

Author affiliation. This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted.

In multi-authored papers, it’s important that ALL authors that have made a significant contribution to the paper are listed. Those who have provided support but have not contributed to the research should be featured in an acknowledgments section. You should never include people who have not contributed to the paper or who don’t want to be associated with the research.