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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.
  • Before submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that:
    - The manuscript has not been previously published in a peer-reviewed journal and is not under consideration elsewhere.
    - If the manuscript has been posted as a preprint, this has been disclosed to the editorial office.
    -The manuscript complies with the journal’s Focus and Scope.
    -The manuscript file is submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx).
    - The text adheres to the formatting and bibliographic requirements specified in the AuthorGuidelines.
    - All figures, tables, and illustrations are properly integrated into the manuscript and cited in the text.
    - Where available, DOIs or URLs are provided for references.
    - A Conflict of Interest statement is included.
    - Funding information is clearly stated (if applicable).
    - A Data Availability Statement is included (where applicable).
    - Any use of artificial intelligence tools in the preparation of the manuscript has been properly disclosed.
    - The manuscript has been checked for language quality and clarity.

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access)

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