Submission information

Accepted manuscript types and word counts

Article types and word counts for this journal are available on the About this journal page. Please see the article types and word counts section for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.

Reference style

Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.

Keywords

Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper. You must include a minimum of three keywords from this MS Excel file. Download the keyword excel file for this journal.

Peer review type

Single anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 1 independent and anonymous reviewer.

Open access options

This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.

Accepted languages

This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK English.

Accepted submission files

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

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