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.

• 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 article is original, does not infringe copyright laws or any other third-party property rights.
• The manuscript has been reviewed and approved by all authors/co-author(s) and there is/are no other person(s) who satisfied the criteria for authorship but are not listed.
• The similarity index is not more than 10% and all the quoted material and ideas taken from other sources are properly cited according LASSIJ requirements.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format (version 2010 or above).
• The text is single-spaced; used 12-point font; employed italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points.
• URLs for the online sources cited in the references have been provided.
• Accept/agreed with the Article Processing Charge (publication fee policy) of the journal.