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 and is not currently under consideration for publication before another publisher.
• The text meets the bibliographic and style requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines (see below). To this end, please make sure you use the template provided in the Author Guidelines, which also contains the Journal's stylesheet.
• The names of all the Authors are entered in the relevant field of the submission platform. Please avoid including the names of the Authors in the manuscript, which must remain anonymous during the peer-review process.
• The file is in .docx format (Microsoft Word document).
• Web addresses/DOI have been added in the references list whenever possible.