Blind peer review
To ensure the integrity of the blind peer review for submission to this publisher, every effort must be made to prevent the identities of authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves authors, editors and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) verifying that the following steps have been taken regarding text and file properties:
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Document authors should exclude their names from the text, with the literal "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.;
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In Microsoft Office documents, the author identification must also be removed from the file properties (see in the File menu in Word) by clicking on the following, starting with File in the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools ( or Options on Mac ) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save;
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With PDFs, author names must also be removed from Document Properties, found under the File option in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.
