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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.
  • Author(s) have read and adhered to the "Author Guidelines" and "Publication Policies".
  • The submission must be original and relevant, and has not been previously published, nor is it currently under consideration at another journal.
  • The manuscript submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format and complies with the Manuscript Template format, structure and presentation.
  • Title Page is completed for submission, ensuring that all person(s) designated as author(s) meet authorship criteria including designing the study, generating or gathering the data, analysing the data, writing the paper, or critically revising the paper. Each author has a registered ORCID account as required.
  • All author-identifying information (including author’s name, affiliation, email address, or contact number) MUST BE REMOVED from the manuscript. These details should appear only on the separate Title Page, which will not be shared with reviewers.
  • Completed INTERNATIONAL REPORTING GUIDELINES CHECKLISTS MUST be submitted as supplementary files (except for Opinion and Letters to the Editor).
  • Reviewer Recommendation Form is completed for submission.
  • The use of acronyms and abbreviations is kept to a minimum and, when used, they are to be defined where first used, followed by the acronym or abbreviation in parenthesis.
  • All citations are fully traceable to the references provided, and reliable DOIs or URL links for all references are included for verification.

Articles

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Licensing Policy

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3. No additional restrictions may be applied. Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits.

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