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).
• Manuscripts submitted to the journal must represent original research that has not been published in any journal and that is not being submitted for publication elsewhere.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The text is formatted using 11 points Times Roman, double spaced 8” x 11” numbered pages and wide (2.5 cm) margins.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• Confirm that the manuscript has been created by the author(s) and not an AI tool/Large Language Model (LLM). If an AI tool/LLM has been used to develop or generate any portion of the manuscript then this must be clearly flagged in the Methods and Acknowledgements.
• Confirm that all of the research meets the ethical guidelines of your institution or company, as well as adherence to the legal requirements of the study country.
• Confirm that you have prepared a complete text within the anonymous article file. Any identifying information has been included separately in a title page, acknowledgements or supplementary file not for review, to allow anonymous review.
  
• Confirm that if you have used human subjects for your research, you have followed research ethics protocols.