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)
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format. The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 14-point Times New Roman font.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. The text of the original research article has an IMRAD structure
• Cover Letter
• The Authorship Responsibility Form
• Potential Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form
• Title page including:
  • Article title
  • Author information
  • Corresponding author
  • Word count
  • The number of figures and tables
  • Abbreviations
• Tables are placed in the text of the article; figures are numbered as mentioned in the text and must be uploaded separately
• Abstract, limited to 300 words, with keywords
• Text of the manuscript in Word formatted according to the instructions
• Statements and declarations
  • Funding
  • Conflicts of Interests
  • Author Contributions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Disclaimers
  • Ethics Statement
  • Subjects of the study.
  • Ethics approval for research involving humans.
  • Ethics approval for research involving animals.
  • Informed consent.
  • Data Availability Statement
  
• The manuscript with numbered rows in PDF format