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.- 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
- All authors have approved the submission and agree to its publication under the journal’s licensing terms (CC BY 4.0)
- 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 Author Guidelines
- 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 disclose
- The manuscript has been checked for language quality and clarity
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