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Author Guidelines

Please go to the Aims & Scope section to obtain an overview before assessing the suitability of your manuscript for this journal. It is crucial to make sure that issues related to publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data, and references format have been properly considered in into account. Obtain approval from all authors for the content of the manuscript before submission. To access the content, readers don’t need to pay anything.  Upon article acceptance, authors or their institutions have to pay the Article Processing Charge (APC). Please click here for further information.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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).
  • 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 submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

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