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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.
  • 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).
  • Submissions should be anonymized for blind peer review. Remove any identifiable information such as names and affiliations. Use the paper title to name your file. Example: Adaptive reuse infrastructures.pdf
  • 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.
  • Submissions must adhere to the APA Style guidelines.
  • It should be uploaded as a single high-resolution PDF file. The submissions should be approximately 2,500-4,500 words (excluding footnotes and works cited).
  • Hyphen does not pay for intellectual property rights for material appearing in the journal. Contributors must provide proof of all permissions for the reproduction of images and other content upon selection.
  • You confirm that you have indicated your Affiliation and Status in the Comments for the Editor field:
    Affilitation Options: Landscape, Architecture, Graphic Design, Science, Engineering, Liberal Arts, or Other (please specify)
    Status Options: Undergraduate student, Master Student, Ph.D. Student, Ph.D. Candidate, Post Doctoral Candidate / Researcher, Faculty, Independent Researcher, Practitioner, or Miscellaneous (please specify)

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Ideal attribution for a work published in this journal consists of the work’s title, the title of the journal, the name(s) of the author(s), the DOI (digital object identifier), and a link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license deed. The journal encourages those relying on the CC BY-NC 4.0 license to consult the Best Practices for Attribution on the Creative Commons wiki.   

As they retain copyright, authors are entitled to distribute any version of the article and to grant other licenses to use the work, subject to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The journal encourages authors to include the ideal attribution described above when they distribute their works after acceptance by the journal.   

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