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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.

  • Author(s) confirm that their submission has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication by any other journal or publisher, except as an abstract, or archived in the author's institutional repository or personal website. See deposit policy).
  • Author(s) affirm that they have uploaded (1) a Blinded Manuscript, comprising the main text, tables, figures, and references, and (2) a Title Page containing details of the authors, funding, acknowledgments, declarations of conflicting interests, author contributions, author biographies, a statement of data availability, and a statement of APC payment after article acceptance, as separate files.
  • Author(s) affirm that the Blinded Manuscript and Title Page are submitted in the format of doc. or docx., and not in the format of rtf. or PDF.
  • Author(s) confirm that all files are formatted in English.
    Author(s) the right to the first publication of all published material licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC 4.0.
  • Author(s) agree to make payment of the Article Processing Charge (APC), within ten days of the editorial acceptance of the manuscript. Please note that the option to process an advance payment remains but does not guarantee the acceptance of manuscripts.
  • Author(s) understand that failure to adhere to the submission checklists provided will result in the immediate rejection of their manuscript.
  • Author(s) acknowledge that making a double submission will result in being blacklisted.

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.