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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The manuscript includes sections of Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, and References with figures, and tables placed at the end of the manuscript after the references.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • All the listed authors have contributed to the work and are aware of this submission.

Author Guidelines

To submit your paper, You need to register first then submit your paper. Please read carefully and prepare your files (especially the manuscript file) as instructed here in Author's Guidelines. A manuscript that does not follow the format will be returned to the author before undergoing any screening or review process.