Submissions

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.

• Give the journal aims and scope a final read. Is your manuscript definitely a good fit? If it isn’t, the editor may decline it without peer review.
• Does your manuscript comply with JCE research and publishing ethics guidelines?
• Does your manuscript comply with JCE research and publishing ethics guidelines?
• Does the manuscript contain any information that might help the reviewer identify you? This could compromise the anonymous peer review process. A few tips:
  - If you need to refer to your own work, use wording such as ‘previous research has demonstrated’ not ‘our previous research has demonstrated’.
  - If you need to refer to your own, currently unpublished work, don’t include this work in the reference list.
  - Any acknowledgments or author biographies should be uploaded as separate files.
  - Carry out a final check to ensure that no author names appear anywhere in the manuscript. This includes in figures or captions.