Submissions

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.

• My submission is an original unpublished work and is not under review with any other journal. The authors of papers accepted for publication will be asked to pay an APC (Article Processing Charge) of € 300,00 plus VAT (if applicable).
• I have disclosed all co-authors (Step 3 of the submission process, button Add Author), who have seen and approved the final version of the paper, having agreed to its submission for publication.
• I have disclosed all sources of financial support for the project.
• I have disclosed in my manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of the manuscript.
• The preferred file format is PDF, but we also accept DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF.
• I have indicated the DOI of all the articles included in the references (where it is available).
• I have written my paper following the Instructions for the Authors, also available on publisher's website.
• I have downloaded the LICENSE AGREEMENT, completed it and I will upload it in the Library, just after I finished the submission process.
• I have prepared a file ensuring a blind peer review. Please remove any references to authors' names in the body of the manuscript and in the Properties of the file. If you submit a paper that contains authors' names, it will be returned to you for editing.