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.- Authors have read the "Author Guidelines" and "Publication Policies".
- The submission must be original and relevant, and has not been previously published, nor sent to another journal before for consideration (Please provide an explanation in the 'Comments to the Editor' if it was sent before).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
- The manuscript format for submission adheres to the Manuscript Template stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- The article has been prepared with scientific publication ethics and all the research meets the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the study country.
- All persons designated as authors meet authorship criteria including designing the study, generating or gathering the data, analysis of the data, writing the paper, or critical revision of the paper.
- The use of acronyms and abbreviations is kept to a minimum and, when used, they are to be defined where first used, followed by the acronym or abbreviation in parenthesis.
- All references and citations have been checked for accuracy and completeness. Where available, URLs of DOI for the references have been provided.
Articles
The published articles are peer-reviewed independently in line with COPE practices.
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