Submission Preparation Checklist

Authors are required to confirm the following conditions before submitting a manuscript. Noncompliant submissions may be returned for correction or declined in accordance with journal policy.

1. I confirm that the manuscript is original, has not been published as a journal article, is not under concurrent consideration elsewhere, and any prior dissemination or overlapping work has been declared to the Editorial Office.
2. I have confirmed the manuscript's relevance to the current AAAR Aims & Scope and selected exactly one accepted type: Research Paper or Literature Review Paper.
3. I have prepared the Blinded Manuscript using the current official Word template and removed author-identifying information, and I have prepared a separate Title Page & Author Information Form containing accurate authorship, affiliation, corresponding-author ORCID, CRediT, and applicable declarations.
4. I have checked the accuracy of the methods, findings, in-text citations, references, and DOI information; complied with APA 7 and journal research-integrity, similarity-screening, confidentiality, AI-disclosure, and publication-ethics requirements.
5. I have reviewed the journal's current Article Processing Charge and waiver policy and understand that payment, if applicable, is administered only after final scientific-editorial acceptance and does not influence scholarly evaluation.
6. I understand that authors retain copyright and that formally published AAAR articles use the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; I have reviewed the journal's privacy and relevant Open Access requirements.
7. All named authors have approved submission, agreed upon the author order, confirmed their genuine contributions and applicable permissions, and authorized the corresponding author to communicate with AAAR through OJS.