Submissions

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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.
  • Authenticity: The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Political correctness: Non-discriminatory language is mandatory and displays gender awareness.
  • copyright: The permission to use copyrighted material is obtained.

Author Guidelines

The following guidelines adhere to all contributions:

  • Manuscripts follow the APA7 guidelines.
  • Manuscripts are accepted in German and English (UK English preferred; in any case conistency is required).
  • Manuscripts have got up to appr. 30,000 characters (including spaces; excluding list of references).
  • Manuscripts are submitted in Word format (docx, doc; Times/Arial; 11 pt; line spacing 1.5; no hyphentation; only basic formatting)
  • Scientific articles are anonymised. This does not apply to short papers.
  • Images are provided at a resolution of a minimum of 300 ppi and are suitable for monochrome output (greyscale).

Submission procedure

After registration (username: only lower-case alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens; and must begin and end with an alphanumeric character) the following steps are required:

  1. General information
    Choose article language (English or German)
    Choose a section (short artcles are not accepted any more)
    Acknowledge submission requirements
    Comments for the Editor (optional Cover Letter)
  2. Upload contribution
    Select article component (text, graphics, data, ...)
    Enter review details (mandatory, details need to be given in English and German)
    If needed, further article components may be uploaded
  3. Enter Metadata (English and German)
    Enter title, subtitle (optional), abstract and keywords
  4. Confirm submission
    An email confirming the submission will be sent to you
    (if necessary, please check the spam folder and mark mails of the journal system as no spam)

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