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.

• Confirm the manuscript is written in English, totals 4,000 to 7,000 words, and is fully prepared in the official Template with all required formatting, styles, headings, and layout preserved.
• Confirm the title, all author names, affiliations, and roles are complete, and the single corresponding author is clearly identified with an institutional email address shown in both metadata and manuscript.
• Confirm the abstract is a single paragraph that states aim, method, key findings, and conclusion, and that a clear set of relevant keywords is provided in the required format.
• Confirm the methodology, analysis, and ethics information is explicit and auditable, and that all tables and figures are properly numbered, captioned, placed near first mention, and referenced in text.
• Confirm all in-text citations match the reference list, references follow APA 7th consistently, DOIs are included where available, and the final submission file is provided as a .docx.