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For unsolicited submissions, please first send us a short summary/abstract of your proposed article (500 words max) by email to [email protected]. The summary should include a brief overview of the main arguments raised in the article, and most importantly explain why this topic fits within the editorial line of the journal (for further reference, please visit our Guidelines for Authors). The Review will inform you of its decision within 2 weeks maximum. Following a positive assessment, the editorial team will request the author for the submission of their full article to be placed through the normal review process followed by the journal.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary materials. Supplementary materials will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary materials may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will be published with the same metadata as your parent article, and are considered a formal part of the academic record, so cannot be retracted or modified other than via our article correction processes. Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please make sure you are familiar with our detailed guidance on supplementary materials prior to submission.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.