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Submission Guidelines
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Ethical Obligations of Editors
Ethical Obligations of Authors
● Conflict of Interest Disclosure
● Data Sharing and Reproducibility
Ethical Obligations of Reviewers
Article Retraction & Withdrawal
Manuscript Submission
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you submit it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
● Read the Aims and Scope to make sure your manuscript is suitable for this journal.
● The submission has neither been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication anywhere else.
● The submission has been approved by all authors of the manuscript.
● Permission has been obtained for use of any or all copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet).
● Manuscript has been spell checked and grammar checked.
● All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa.
● Make sure to submit your manuscript in either Microsoft Word or LaTeX template (We recommend Overleaf, which includes the journal article template file, allowing you to easily prepare your paper in the format suitable for CM). If it contains special characters, equations or any precise formatting that needs to be retained, please submit a PDF of your manuscript for reference, in addition to an editable word version. Figure files should also be uploaded as high-resolution TIFF or EPS files for printing.
● Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed.
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation due to misappropriation of materials.