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, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• Use the Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript.
  
• The manuscript has been anonymized for double-blind peer review. Author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other identifying information have been removed from the manuscript file.
• A cover letter has been uploaded, including a manuscript summary, author information, and at least three (3) suggested reviewers with no conflict of interest. Cover Letter Template is available here.
• The submission file is in PDF, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• The manuscript has a similarity index below 30% and an AI-generated text score below 60%. A plagiarism report (e.g., Turnitin or iThenticate) has been uploaded as a supplementary file.