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.

• I, the submitting author, warrant that I have the permission of any and all co-authors to submit this manuscript, that any co-authors can be considered as such according to the Journal's authorship criteria and that I have permission to be their spokesperson during the review process and beyond. I also approve distribution with the CC license the Journal uses, and this too has been approved by co-authors.
• All authors of the manuscript are qualified to be considered as such, in accordance with the guidelines set forth in authorship criteria and all have given their permission to be listed in the submitted manuscript.
• The manuscript has not been previously published in the current submitted version, nor is it under consideration by another journal. If the manuscript has been published in an earlier version, this should be clearly indicated; see the Journal's preprint policy. (Feel free to enter an explanation in the box "Comments to the editor" if relevant).
• The submitting author has entered their ORCiD identification number in their author data. Any co-authors have been advised to also provide their ORCiD in accordance with the Journal's policy.
• All material presented in the manuscript where copyright is held by third parties has been properly produced and necessary permissions have been obtained from the submitting author.
• The submitting author commits to reformat promptly the paper to comply with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements specified in the author instructions if accepted for publication.
• The manuscript files uploaded for review are anonymized according to the Journal's instructions for authors.
• All individuals or groups of individuals who can be identified in a study, or their guardians, have signed informed consent documents, thereby giving their consent for the submitted manuscript to be published under a CC license.
• Where applicable, the research has been reviewed by an appropriate ethics committee and the name of the committee and approval reference number included in the submitted manuscript.