Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- Compliance with the aims and scope of the journal and the peer review process, as detailed in Information for Authors.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication in another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The text is written in English.
- The submission file is in PDF document file format, generated by a file initially typed in LaTeX.
- The institutional affiliations – including country/region – of all contributing authors are specified.
- Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references are provided.
- All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- The Ethics Statements are verified.
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