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 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).
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
- The submission files are in Microsoft Word or PDF document file format.
- Where available, DOI's for the references have been provided.
- Please submit a separate cover letter to the editors which includes all author names as well as the purpose and a brief overview of your submission. If submitting for a special issues, please specify the issue.
- Submit a separate title page which should include all authors' names, credentials, email addresses, and affiliations (if applicable).
- Please submit a fully blinded manuscript (main document), without any details about the authors.
- Illustrations, figures, and tables are submitted as separate, supplemental files.
- Please ensure your submission is not more than 25 pages, including tables, figures, and references. Authors are encouraged to discuss manuscripts of longer length with the editor.
Copyright Notice
This Agreement (the Agreement) is made by and between the authors and The Dialog Editorial Team.
Author Agreement
By submitting the research article to The Dialog, I acknowledge it may be published by the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the Author(s) certify that:
- Warranties:
- Authors are legally authorized and possesses full power and authority on behalf of co-authors to enter into this Agreement.
- Author warrants, on behalf of all article authors, that:
- The article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration for publication by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights;
- The named authors are the sole author(s) of the article. Any co-author not signing this Agreement personally has granted full authority to the main author and agree to enter into this agreement of his/her behalf and to gran the following rights to The Dialog.
- The article contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract.
II.Copyright
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Author(s) shall retain copyright to the article but grant the Journal right of first publication, and the irrevocable right to perpetually disseminate the article as part of the Journal subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License, that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Beginning one year after the date of formal publication of the article, Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work and subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), subject to a proper acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal: This article was originally published in The Dialog (Vol., Issue, Year).
III. Indemnification.
Author shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Journal from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, expenses (including attorney’s fees and expert costs, penalties, fees, if any arising from enforcement of this Agreement and/or related to claims of infringement of copyrights or proprietary rights allegedly contained in the Article, or resulting from a claim of defamation, obscenity, or invasion of privacy based upon or arising out of the publication of the Article or any other breach of warranty as set forth in No. 1.
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