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.

• This manuscript is original; the article's publication is approved by all authors and the responsible parties where the work was carried out.
• This manuscript has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, an academic thesis, or a registered report, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Files formatted in MS Word.
• This manuscript complies with all of the guidelines required in the template document.