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.
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All submissions must meet the following requirements.
✓ 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).
✓ 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.
✓ If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed and a peer review ready document has been uploaded.
✓ The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
✓ A Title Page has been uploaded as a separate file and includes the manuscript title, number of figures and tables, word counts for both the abstract and full manuscript, and a 220-character (with spaces) social media caption for possible use on West Point Press social media channels if the article is accepted for publication.
✓ A Disclosures Page has been uploaded and lists the following, if applicable:
• Artificial intelligence (AI) tools used and how they were used.
• If human research participants were involved, the IRB approval status and date.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access ).
The copyediting stage is intended to improve the flow, clarity, grammar, wording, and formatting of the article. It represents the last chance for the author to make any substantial changes to the text because the next stage is restricted to typos and formatting corrections. The file to be copyedited is in Word or .rtf format and therefore can easily be edited as a word processing document. The set of instructions displayed here proposes two approaches to copyediting. One is based on Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature and requires that the copy editor, editor, and author have access to this program. A second system, which is software independent, has been borrowed, with permission, from the Harvard Educational Review. The journal editor is in a position to modify these instructions, so suggestions can be made to improve the process for this journal.
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