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.

• The contribution has not yet been published in another journal and can be published under one of the CC-BY 4.0 licenses. (If it is a secondary publication, please contact the editorial office).
• The rights to images and graphics are agreed and can be published under one of the CC-BY 4.0 licenses.
• The contribution was created with the template for LibreOffice in LibreOffice and is available in a text file in .odt format.
• I have all graphics of the contribution individually as a file. They can be uploaded in the 4th step as additional material.
• I have downloaded the DCO open access agreement at http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/media/dco/de/DCO_Open_Access_Agreement_German.pdf and will sign and return it to the editorial office after submission.