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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).
  • Upload Ethical Review Certificate / Institutional Review Board Certificate - Download Specimen
  • Upload undertaking by the author(s) - Download Specimen
  • 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 the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The title of the article, which should be concise but informative;
The name by which each author is known, with his or her highest academic degree(s) and institutional affiliation;
The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed;
The name, address and the telephone number of the Corresponding Author responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs;
Financial disclosures, if any sources of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these;
Declaration of conflict of interests (details can be seen at ICMJE);
Total word count excluding references and title page; word count should not exceed four thousand.
Number of figures and tables;

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