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.

• I prepare my manuscript according to the Authors Guidelines.
• I confirm that the submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• I confirm that I prepared my article according to the Manuscript Template.
• I confirm that the manuscript includes a description of all necessary ethics according to Ethical Code for Early Childhood Researchers (ECR).
• I confirm that the manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• I confirm that the authors hold full responsibility against issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism, or other breaches. Therefore, manuscripts including other work or third-party copyright material must contain permission or sufficient acknowledgment.
• I confirm that the authors hold full responsibility for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
• I confirm that references and citations were shown according to APA 7 referencing style.
• I confirm that I submitted the paper as blind.
• I confirm that after the editorial decision I will not be able to add any authors.
• I confirm that all authors registered during submission. As a correspondent author, this is my responsibility.
• I confirm that I did language proofreading before the submission.