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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).
- Manuscript submitted must be in Microsoft Word file (DOC or DOCX format).
- An author has been designated as the Corresponding Author. The e-mail address, full postal address, telephone number and fax number have been provided.
- Manuscript has been "spellchecked" and "grammar-checked".
- All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
- References are cited using EndNote or Mendeley reference manager.
- References are in the correct format for this journal.
- Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
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