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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• The text strictly adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guideline.
• All references have been formatted using a standard citation management tool (Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, etc.).
• All references that have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) must include the DOI written as a hyperlink (e.g., https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxxxx).
• The manuscript has been checked for similarity/plagiarism, and the overall Similarity Index does not exceed 20%.
• The final version of the manuscript complies with the specific formatting (e.g., 10-point Arial font, Single Spacing, 2-column layout, and appropriate placement of figures/tables inline).