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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in Word Format (OpenOffice, Microsoft, or similar other document).
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The manuscript writing style matches the article template; and 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.
• Upload plagiarism check file (25% maximum similarity).
• Upload MASTER-Statement of Originality file as a supplement.
• Minimum 2 authors and all of them must be included in the metadata