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.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

  Declaration of interest. All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Authors must disclose any interests in declaration of the manuscript file.

• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found below in the About the Journal section.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions below have been followed.
  
• Blind Review
  Do not provide authorship information (name, institution, titles). Leave the words “Name Surname” in _Symphonya_’s template and do not provide your details in the note concerning position and affiliation. If you cite your own work, make your references using the third person. For example, avoid expressions like “As I (we) have demonstrated in my (our) my previous work”.