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 in peer-reviewed journals, nor is it submitted for consideration. In case the manuscript derives from earlier works (e.g. conference presentations, reports or academic theses), it is stated so in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section.
• The submitter has received approval from all the authors for the submission of the manuscript in its current shape.
• The manuscript is written in English and has been checked for language issues (spelling, grammer, vocabulary use).
• The manuscript contains ‘About authors’ section.
• The manuscript contains ‘CRediT contribution statement’.
• The manuscript contains a ‘Declaration of competing interests’.
• The manuscript contains ‘Ethics statement’.
• The manuscript contains ‘Funding’ section.
• Where available, DOI/URL links are provided for the referenced sources.