Author guidelines

Important information: Submissions that do not meet the author guidelines may be rejected according to the journal's review process.

Guidelines

• Submissions must be previously unpublished and must not be in review by any other journal (otherwise, a statement is included in "Comments to Editors").

• Manuscripts should be submitted via upload on the journal platform.

• Authors must register an individual journal account.

• Authors (including co-authors) of articles accepted for publication are asked to register with ORCID and authenticate their iD on the journal's platform. Detailed information about ORCID and the display of ORCID iDs in the journal can be found here. ORCID authentication is done via a direct link sent to all authors by journal.

• Articles must fit into one of the journal sections (see journal sections under Submit article).

• The maximum length of articles depends on the sections and can be found in the respective description under Submit article. The maximum length of abstracts is limited to 300 words.

• Articles submitted as part of a special issue must be identified as such in the comments to the editor during the submission process.

• All article and author metadata must be entered during the submission process. See mandatory metadata below.

• The language of articles is English. Abstracts may be in English and an additional language of the author's choice. At the moment, this second abstract can only appear in the file but cannot yet be entered as metadata. Attention must be paid to correct spelling and grammar.

• A statement of individual author contributions must be included in the submitted manuscript. This follows the ethical guidelines of the journal with respect to author transparency.

• A statement of the availability of research data must be included in the submitted manuscript. Ideally, this data should be stored in a publicly accessible repository, citable by its own digital object identifier (DOI). See ethical guidelines of the journal.

• Funding of the research and/or publication and possible conflicts of interest must be disclosed in a statement in the submitted manuscript. This follows the ethical guidelines of the journal.

• The authors are committed to good scientific practice and the ethical guidelines of the journal.

• It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third party materials in their publications.

• Image rights must be obtained for all illustrations within submitted articles. The author(s) assume sole responsibility in the event of any violation of image rights. For article production, all illustrations must be submitted separately.

• All published articles in this journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The authors accept a potential publication under the CC BY 4.0 license when submitting their article.

Formatting

The journal's formatting guidelines are mandatory for all articles. Only submissions matching these guidelines can be considered for potential review.

Metadata query

The following metadata must be provided during the article submission process.

Article metadata

mandatory

• Title
Titles cannot contain italicized, superscript or subscript components.
• Subtitles
Subtitles cannot contain italicized, superscript or subscript components.
• Keywords (3-10)
Careful selection significantly increases the findability of articles.
• Abstract
Abstracts must be concise and not exceed a maximum length of 300 words.
• References
References must be entered without any line breaks within a reference, but with a blank line between two references.

voluntary

• Type
Type of the submission. The type is usually "text", but may be "record", "image", or any of the Dublin Core types.
• Rights
All rights to this submission, including intellectual property rights, copyrights, and proprietary rights, must be indicated.
• Source
The source can be an ID such as the DOI of another work that was the basis of this submission.
• Discipline
Disciplines are types of studies or areas of expertise as described by university departments or professional societies.
• Support
Supporting institutions may indicate here the source of research funding or other types of support for research.

Author metadata

mandatory

• Full name
The name will be displayed on the journal's website as well as in the article PDF and HTML file. Please do not enter an academic degree here.
• Affiliation
The affiliation is displayed on the journal's website as well as in the article PDFs and HTMLs.
• Country
The country is not displayed for readers of the journal.
• E-mail address
The email address will be used for all correspondence during the review process. Only the email address of the corresponding author is visible to readers of the journal.
• Main contact
Indication of corresponding author.
• ORCID
ORCID authentication is done via a direct link sent via email to the author(s).

Links

➟ Formatting guidelines
➟ Ethical guidelines
➟ Data privacy statement
➟ Review process
➟ ORCID