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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents, and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk-reject a submission if it does not meet minimum quality standards. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise, and the abstract should stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors must confirm compliance with all items below; non-compliant submissions may be returned for revision.

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The submission is original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere (or an explanation is provided in Comments to the Editor).

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Research adheres to the Declaration of Helsinki ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects.

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Informed consent has been obtained from all patients or participants.

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Financial disclosures are provided.

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Any conflicts of interest are declared.

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The manuscript is submitted as an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF file.

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Text is single-spaced in 12-point font, uses italics (not underlining, except for URLs), and places all illustrations, figures, and tables within the text at appropriate points (not at the end).

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Formatting follows the stylistic and bibliographic standards in our Author Guidelines.

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URLs are included for all applicable references.

 

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  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal a non-exclusive right of first publication, with the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
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  • Authors confirm the manuscript is original, unpublished (except abstracts /preprints), not under consideration elsewhere, and approved by all authors, who assume responsibility for content and third-party permissions (e.g., figures/tables).
  • Authors may pursue non-exclusive distribution of the published version (e.g., repositories), acknowledging the journal as the source.

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