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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).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
The manuscript is free of plagiarism, has met the publication ethics, and fully written in English.
The manuscript has fulfilled the standardized format of the journal.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed. Please read the information about the blind review system carefully.
Please read carefully the journal policy about Author Revision, APCs, and Withdrawal of Manuscripts in About the Journal session. The authors are considered to have agreed on the journal policies after submission
Please ensure that you have entered all author information in the journal's metadata (Affiliation, Department, and Orchid ID) according to the number of authors and the author's background correctly and clearly. Inconsistency of author data with author guidelines will be immediately rejected.
Articles that do not meet the author guidelines in any way will be rejected.
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