Critical review or state-of-the-field articles may be considered selectively when they make a substantial original scholarly contribution, use a transparent and defensible review method, and do more than summarize existing literature. Purely descriptive literature summaries, unstructured narrative reviews, opinion pieces, sermons, teaching notes, and manuscripts without an identifiable scholarly contribution are outside the journal's normal publication model unless explicitly commissioned and clearly labelled as a different content type.
A manuscript must not duplicate a formally published work. If a version has appeared as a preprint, working paper, thesis/dissertation repository item, conference paper, or another form of prior dissemination, the author must disclose this at submission and provide the relevant link or citation. The editor will assess whether the submission contains sufficient originality and whether copyright or duplicate-publication concerns arise.
