Ensuring anonymous peer review

In the process of ensuring the integrity of anonymous peer review of submissions to this scholarly journal, we will endeavor to prevent authors from knowing the identity of reviewers and vice versa. To this end, authors, editors and reviewers (who register and submit documents as part of the review) should check that the following steps have been followed in relation to the text and file properties:
- The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, and have used "Author" and the year used in references and footnotes, instead of the author's name, article title, etc.
- In the case of Microsoft Office documents, the author identification should also be removed from the file properties (see the File option in Word) by clicking on the options below. Start 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 when saving > Save.
- For PDF files, you must also remove author names from the Document Properties, found under the File option in Adobe Acrobat's main menu.