Submissions

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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, 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

To submit a new paper to our journal:

  1. Register on the Journal website; we encourage you to register also as a Reviewer at the same time;
  2. Follow the Guidelines for Authors for preparation of your manuscript;
  3. Read our Editorial Policies and our Competing Interest policies.
  4. Log in;
  5. Click on the "NEW SUBMISSION" button to start the online procedure.

To submit a revised version:

  1. Log in;
  2. Click on the title of your paper;
  3. Next to the heading "REVISIONS", upload your revised paper by using the "UPLOAD FILE" button;
  4. Inform the Editors that a revised version has been uploaded.

Articles

Section default policy

Literature Reviews

Reviews should not exceed 6000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, and figures) and may include up to 8 figures and/or tables and up to 120 references. Additional figures, tables, and references should be submitted as supplement.
The article should be divided into the following sections: Title page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Acknowledgments (funding, conflict of interest).

Editorials

Editorials should not exceed 1500 words (excluding references, tables and figures) and include typically one, with exceptions two figures and/or tables and up to 20 references. Editorials do not contain an abstract.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor should not exceed 750 words. No abstract and up to 10 references.

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