Submissions

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.

• All manuscript submissions must be previously unpublished and can not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• 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.
• The first author should be the lead investigator who crafted the research project and its protocol. Any following authors the person who
• Your submission should include, as separate files: 
  
  article file, including abstract and references
  
  author(s) names, with address for corresponding author, and biographies file
  caption file
  
  table files (editable PDF preferred, font Myriad Pro)
  
  image files (minimum image resolution 300 dip, maximum image width 30 picas, provide both RGB and grayscale PGN or TIFF files – RGB for on-line PDFs and grayscale for print)
• For peer-review manuscript submission 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 follows The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition and employs APA citation style, for example (Jones (1971), 310) with a reference list giving full citation details at the end of the manuscript. Footnotes are preferred to endnotes.