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 manuscript has been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines.
• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal.
• The manuscript has been prepared without plagiarism and complies with the journal’s similarity requirements.
• The "Title Page" and "Manuscript" files have been uploaded separately to ensure a double-blind peer review process.
• All authors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission.
• A Conflict of Interest statement has been included in the manuscript.
• Information regarding funding sources (if applicable) has been clearly stated.
• For studies involving human or animal subjects, ethical approval information has been provided.
• A Data Availability Statement has been included where applicable.
• Any use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the preparation of the manuscript has been properly disclosed.
• The authors confirm that they agree to publish this manuscript under the journal’s Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license and grant the journal the right to publish and distribute the work.