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Author Guidelines

For online submissions, please navigate to our new website via the following link. PLEASE NOTE: You should use the same username but will need to reset your password the first time you login to the new website.

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/HSCC/about/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.

1. The material should not have been previously published.
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
3. References including URLs and DOIs (where available) are ready to be uploaded when prompted during the submission process. Please ensure text is entered as plain text in the metadata.
4. The text is double-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. Please ensure text is entered as plain text in the metadata.
5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
6. You, the contributor, have read the guidelines for submission for this journal and have followed the instructions 
7. You, the contributor, have read and agree to our conditions for publication especially regarding our statement of ethical practice, the originality of your contribution (i.e. has not been previously published and does not include copyrighted material) and is not libellous or containing any potentially libellous content.

Copyright Notice

Click Here for the contributor contract, which you should print, sign and post back to us once your manuscript is accepted.

Privacy Statement

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