Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

Authors before uploading the manuscript for review process, please make sure the following details are available and checked after accepting the manuscript for publication. Please use the PDF form to provide the submission checklist, which shall be uploaded when requested to the author while proceeding to the next stage of open access publishing workflow.

This way it is easier for both authors and editorial team of the corresponding series to followup the workflow. The same is listed here for reference.

1. Name of the Author
   
2. Title of the Manuscript
3. Title and subtitle at the Title page
4. Authors/Editors
   1. Exact spelling of all author/editor names
   2. E-mail address of corresponding author
   3. Consent for e-mail correspondence
   4. ORCID
      
   5. Institutional affiliation, if any
   6. About the author (~150 words)
   7. About the editor (~150 words), for edited books
   8. About the book (blurb, max. 200 words)
5. Front matter completion list
   1. Dedication
   2. Foreword
   3. Preface
   4. Acknowledgements
   5. Competing interests
   6. Ethics approval
      
   7. Table of Contents
   8. List of contributors
   9. List of abbreviations
   10. List of Tables
   11. List of Images
   12. List of Illustrations
   13. List of Appendices
   14. Glossary
6. Table of Content
   1. First 2 levels of headings appearing in chapters included ?
   2. Contributed books, chapter titles and author names ?
   3. Headings correspond to those in text ?
7. Book structure
   1. Number of parts
   2. Number of chapters
   3. All chapters sequentially throughout the  book
   4. Chapter sequence and final numbering
8. Abstract
   1. For book ?
   2. For each chapter ? (improved search, recall and retrieval)
9. Chapter keywords
   1. For book ?
   2. For each chapter ?
10. Text
    1. Heading levels and special text elements styled consistently ?
    2. Styles applied to all heading and special text ?
11. References
    1. List of reference included at the end of chapter or book ?
    2. Cross verified citations in text with reference list ?
    3. Bibliography following, Chicago Manual style 17th ed. ?
    4. Index ?
12. Figures
    1. All figures included in source rich text file, render correctly in PDF ?
    2. All figures available as separate files ?
    3. Consecutively numbered within chapter (If in Chapter 1, then Figure 1., Figure 1.1., Figure. 1.2. If in Chapter 2, then Figure 2., Figure 2.1., Figure 2.2.)
    4. Consecutively cited in text (While citing the figure: fig. 1., fig. 1.2., fig. 2.. fig. 2.2.)
    5. Figure captions ? (Use regular text or smaller for caption. Leave at lease one line break between caption and the text below it.)
13. Tables
    1. Tables prepares ?
    2. Consecutively numbered within chapter (Table 1., Table 1.1.) ?
    3. Consecutively cited in text (table 1., table 1.1.) ?
14. Permissions
    1. Obtained for all material (text, image, illustration, etc.)which is your own work but which you have previously published. ?
    2. Obtained for all material (text, image, illustration, etc.) which is not your original work, unless they can be used without permission under a copyright exception. ?
15. Competing interests
    1. Information regarding sources of funding and potential competing interest (financial or non-financial) has been inserted in a Competing Interests section after the Preface (for the book in an authored work) or at the end of each chapter (in an edited work).
16. Ethics approval
    1. Information confirming informed consent if reporting research involving human participants has been inserted in an Ethics Approval section after the Preface (for the book in an authored work) or at the end of the related chapter (in an edited work).
17. Index
    1. Included index terms (we strongly encourage to include an index).
18. Electronic manuscript
    1. One file folder/zip archive labelled with book title and author name: - Each chapter saved as a separate file; graphics saved as separate file
    2. A second folder/zip archive containing the PDF file(s) with all fonts embedded
19. Electronic supplementary material
    1. Other electronic media forms (ex: video) should be attached to chapter with clear naming and contextualization
20. Edited books
    1. E-mail address and affiliation of the corresponding author of each chapter and e-mail addresses of all co-authors for free access to the e-book after publication.
    2. The standard procedure is for private e-mail addresses to be used for communication but not published.
    3. Professional e-mail addresses will be published.
    4. If you do not wish this, please indicate clearly if your private e-mail address should be published or if your professional e-mail address should not be published.
21. Agree to the copyleft license (CC BY SA NC ND 4.0), compatible with copyright law ? for publishing

Please make sure that the PDF form to provide the submission checklist is downloaded, and filled, with proper details and save the edited PDF file, with corresponding author name as suffix.