Organization of the Manuscript

We would like to stress the importance of carefully preparing the title, keywords and abstract, as these elements are used by bibliographic databases and search engines to identify the content of the manuscript.

Title 

A title should be informative, specific to the project, and yet concise. Please bear in mind that a title that is comprehensible to a broad academic audience and readers outside your field will attract a wider readership. Avoid specialist abbreviations and non-standard acronyms. Titles should be presented in sentence, not title case (i.e., only the first word should be capitalized). Please also provide a brief "running title" of not more than 50 characters.

Authors, Affiliations, Addresses 

In the cover letter, provide the first names (or initials – if used), middle names (or initials – if used), and surnames for all authors. Affiliations should include:

• Department

• University or organization

• City

• Postal code

• State/province (if applicable)

• Country 

One of the authors should be designated as the corresponding author to whom inquiries regarding the paper should be directed. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that the author list and the summary of the author contributions to the study are accurate and complete.

Abstract 

Abstracts are limited to 100-150 words. The abstract should give a summary of the content of the paper. Mention the main findings without going into methodological detail and summarize briefly the most important elements of the paper. Because the abstract will be published separately by abstracting services, it must be complete and understandable without reference to the text.

Keywords 

List keywords for the work presented (minimal of 3, and maximum of 5), separated by commas. Keywords should not replicate those used in the title.

Formatting and Typesetting 

All pages must be numbered consecutively. The whole text (including legends, footnotes, and references) should be formatted double-spaced with no hyphenation and automatic word-wrap (no hard returns within paragraphs). Please type your text consistently, e.g. take care to distinguish between ‘1’ (one), ‘I’ (capital I) and ‘l’ (lower-case L) and ‘0’ (zero) and ‘O’ (capital O), etc. Manuscript pages should have line numbers. The font size should be no smaller than 12 points.