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.- Manuscript must be submitted along with an Author Form signed by all the authors. Signed and scanned Author From then should be uploaded as a Supplementary File in your submission.
- 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 Microsoft Word document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is 1.5 lines spacing; uses a 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed separated from the text, at the end of the manuscript.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Instructions to Author.
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