Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. 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). It is up to the editorial board to decide upon acceptance.
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word file format.
  3. The submission article has been in accordance with Guidelines
  4. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.

The author declares the absence of any conflict of interest in this work