Post-Acceptance Guidelines

Please make the following changes when preparing your manuscript for final submission after acceptance and before we begin copyediting:

1. Address all suggestions made by the editor. 

2. If any text/names were blinded (e.g. [university] ), please insert the appropriate name.

3. Add an Acknowledgments section before references. This should include these five pieces of information:

a. Funding Information: Funding information including grant number. If no external funding was received, then please indicate that the research was funded by your university or self-funded.

b. Conflict of interest: Indicate any conflicts of interest. If there are none, include a statement indicating there are none. 

c. Previous Dissemination: Indicate if any portion of this article was previously included in a thesis, dissertation, conference paper, and/or abstract. Provide a citation or link if applicable. 

d. Artificial Intelligence: Unless already described in your methods, please indicate how any artificial intelligence tools were used, including the tool used and the version of the tool.  

e. Author Contribution Statement: Please consult the Author Contributions page for additional information (https://agdevresearch.org/index.php/aad/contributions).

4. After the reference list on the last page of the manuscript, please enter the following information for each author: (Name, Title, University, mailing address, email, ORCID).

Example: John Smith, Professor, AAD University, 123 Agriculture Drive, Gainesville, FL 11111, johnsmith@aad.edu, https://orcid.org/xxxxxxxxxxx

5. In your reference list, please verify that your doi links and other links are accurate.