Instructions for Electronic Submission

Attach to an e-mail message two electronic copies of your submission: one with a title page containing author’s contact information, one without the authors names and affiliation. Each file should contain all figures, tables, and fully double-spaced references. These two files should be named AUTHOR and NO-AUTHOR, respectively. All submissions must be made in a Word-for- Windows-compatible file format. Your submission will be acknowledged electronically when reviewers are assigned.

Please include in the e-mail message: your statement that your submission is original (i.e., not published elsewhere), has not previously been reviewed by the Journal, and is not currently submitted elsewhere; and whether you wish your submission to be reviewed as a regular paper or as a “short paper.” Any manuscript submitted as a short should also include the phrase “Submitted as a Short Paper” on the title page.

In order to facilitate the publication, please make sure that:
     Your entire submission (including references) is double-spaced in 11-point font with margins of one inch.
     Your abstract is 200 words or less.
     Your submission does not contain  footnotes or endnotes.
     There is nothing in your NO-AUTHOR file that identifies the authors.
     Any hypotheses are explicitly identified as such.
     Constructs and variables are identified in words, not abbreviations.
     Your AUTHOR submission is no longer than 15 pages total if submitted as a “Short Paper.”
     Your AUTHOR submission is no longer than 80 pages total if submitted as a regular paper.
     Any prior publication of the data featured in the manuscript is explicitly acknowledged either in the manuscript or in the transmittal letter to the editor. (Any forthcoming or “in press” articles which use the data should be forwarded to the editor.)
     To insure author anonymity, manuscript “properties” (under FILE in Microsoft Word) should be erased prior to submission.