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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references have been provided. The in-text citations and reference list (bibliography) have been checked and comply with APA (Edition 7) rules.
  • The text uses 12-point Arial font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points (not end of document).
  • The manuscript closely follows the layout guidelines as set out in the eTropic StyleSheet & Template (See Author Guidelines to download the template).
  • Instructions for ensuring anonymous peer review have been followed. (Your submission includes 2 copies of your manuscript: one labeled Anonymous (+ short title) with no author details; one labeled Author with author details and bio).

Author Guidelines

Authors must closely follow the eTropic Style Sheet for all submissions and use this sheet as a Template StyleSheet &Template

Scholarly academic articles should be about 6000 words. Two copies must be submitted: an Author copy and an Anonymous copy. For Author copy: on the title page include Title, Author, University, a 200-word abstract, and about 5 keywords, at the end of the paper include a 100-150 word biographical note for each author. For the Anonymous copy include the Title and 200-word abstract only. 

Creative works (short story, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual artwork and photographic essays) should be up to 5000 words.

Two copies of the manuscript should be uploaded in word.doc or docx: one copy stating the short title followed by the author/s family name(s); and a second anonymous copy stating the short title followed by the word Anonymized. (see above).

If you have problems registering please contact the Editor at: anita.lundberg@gmail.com

All submissions undergo double-anonymous peer review.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who submit articles to this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors are responsible for ensuring that any material that has influenced the research or writing has been properly cited and credited both in the text and in the Reference List (Bibliography). Contributors are responsible for gaining copyright clearance on figures, photographs or lengthy quotes used in their manuscript that have been published elsewhere.

2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License that allows others to share and adapt the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, or publish it in a book), with proper acknowledgement of the work's initial publication in this journal.

4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access or The Open Access Citation Advantage). Where authors include such a work in an institutional repository or on their website (i.e., a copy of a work which has been published in eTropic, or a pre-print or post-print version of that work), we request that they include a statement that acknowledges the eTropic publication including the name of the journal, the volume number and a web-link to the journal item.

5. Authors should be aware that the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License permits readers to share (copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the work) for any purpose, even commercially, provided they also give appropriate credit to the work, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. They may do these things in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests you or your publisher endorses their use.

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