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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • Every single reference cited has been directly consulted by the author(s). If you have not consulted references directly (e.g., you used an LLM summary mentioning references), then stop the submission process and rewrite your manuscript after conducting a direct literature review.
  • By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) are asserting that the research and the manuscript are their own original work that it is not under consideration by another journal, and that all authors have all contributed directly and substantially to the work described.
  • All manuscript submissions must be previously unpublished and can not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • The first author should be the lead investigator who crafted the research project and its protocol.
  • For the anonymized manuscript, eliminate author names from all places in the manuscript and only name the authors in the separate authors file.
  • Manuscripts may be submitted electronically as either a Word.docx and/or PDF and suitable compressed image files. If the manuscript contains many complex images, exceeding 18MB, please send it via a file transfer site and email the editor about the location for pick-up.
  • Visible Language employs APA 7 citation style, for example (Jones, 1971, p. 310) with a reference list giving full citation details at the end of the manuscript. Footnotes are preferred to endnotes. 
  • Your submission should include, as separate files: an anonymized manuscript with author details removed (and self-citations removed with "author" indicators replacing them); an authors manuscript with no anonymization; an abstract no longer than 225 words (also included in both versions of the manuscript); 4–7 keywords (in both manuscripts); author bios (each no longer than 150 words); all images at high resolution (for reproduction at 300 ppi); tables (separate from manuscript if large); author affiliations, corresponding author’s email address, and optionally ORCID IDs (in authors manuscript).