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.

• •   Manuscript length (except for book reviews, Community Voices and Creative Wroks sections) is approximately 6,000 words, including tables, figures and references; longer pieces may be considered. 

  •   Details of authors have not been included on the manuscript (to facilitate anonymous review of the article).

  •   Manuscript is not under consideration with any other journal.

• •   Manuscript is submitted in Word .doc or .docx format.

  •   Text is standard font (e.g. Arial, Times New Roman) at least 11 point and no more than 13 point (except for title and headings) with margins set at between 2.5 and 3 cm.

  •   Lines in the manuscript are one-and-a-half or double-spaced throughout.

  •   Heading levels are clearly marked. This is best achieved by numbering headings (e.g. 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1). Up to three orders of headings is acceptable.

• •   Only the first word and proper nouns in a title are capitalized.

  •   Footnotes have been kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively.

  •   Figures and tables have been integrated into the text. All figures and tables should be numbered consecutively.

• •   Information is included in the paper concerning ethical clearance provided for the study (if relevant).

• •   APA style (6th edition) has been used for in text references and reference list (bibliography).

• •   doi for articles, where available, has been included in the reference list (do not include URL if doi is available).

  •   All hyperlinks from text and references have been removed.

• •   Metadata details (when submitting article through journal website) have been completed, including: all author and co-author contact and affiliation details, manuscript type, keywords, abstract, and bibliography.