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 manuscript has not been published in whole or in part and has not been submitted to another journal.
• The authors declare to know the guidelines for authors and have prepared their manuscripts according to the instructions.
• No conduct has been committed that could be considered as a violation of scientific integrity or of ethical principles from the journal.
• Along with the manuscript and the title page are the annexes required by the journal, as the case may be (article cover letter template, affidavit, funding, and conflict of interest declaration).
• Authors shall meet the international criteria to be considered as such; in addition, they are aware of and agree with the final version of the manuscript submitted for publication.