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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.
  • The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it currently with another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The manuscript is in Microsoft Word and adheres to the formatting requirements provided in the Submission section of the website.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end of the manuscript.
  • The text in the manuscript adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Submission Guidelines for your submission type.
  • A Cover Letter has been created, following the cover letter guidelines found in the writing guidelines for your submission type, and will be uploaded as a separate Word document.
  • A Title Page has been created, following the title page guidelines found in the writing guidelines for your submission type, and will be uploaded as a separate Word document
  • Any images include Alt text, and approval for submission has been attained.

Author Guidelines

Refer to these Paper Format conventions when formatting your submission. Use these examples to guide your writing, and be sure to follow the requirements specified in J-TICH's Submission Types and Guidelines as well.

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Authors retain their copyright for all articles they opt to publish open access. Authors grant J-TICH an exclusive license to publish the article, and the article is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons user license. 

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Open access articles are freely available to read, download, and share from the time of publication under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution-Non Commercial No Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND) license. This license does not permit reuse for any commercial purposes, nor does it cover the reuse or modification of individual elements of the work (such as figures, tables, etc.) in the creation of derivative works without specific permission. 

Government License

For US government employees, works created within their employment scope are considered public domain, and J-TICH’s publishing agreements do not require a transfer or license of rights for such works.

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