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 submitted for consideration to any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
• The text has 1.5 line spacing, a 12-point font size, and uses italics instead of underlining (except for URLs).
• The title, abstract, and keywords are in the original language of the article and in English.
• The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• A brief curriculum of the author(s) is attached in a separate file, in the original language of the article, in Spanish, and in English.