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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); 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 For Authors section.
• It is original and it does not infringe any copyright.
  
• It was not previously published in another journal.
• All the authors were mentioned; the document does not omit any of them.
• The paper uses trustworthy data that was neither invented nor copied.
• It expressly declares any conflict of interest that may influence the results or interpretation of the investigation (if any).
• It declares that human or animal participation in the investigation is following the pertinent and current regulations, and that informed consent was obtained from human participants (if any).