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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.
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Before making submission/s, please read our copyright statement here. By making submission/s, you are agreeing to our copyright terms.
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Before making submission/s, please read our licensing statement here. By making submission/s, you are agreeing to those terms.
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Before making submissions, please read carefully our Author Guidelines here. Submissions that do not comply with our Author Guidelines will be rejected or asked for revisions.
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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).
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The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
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Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements. Please follow use the style of our Template.
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We are using double blind peer-review processes, please make sure the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
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Please make sure that your submission files is BELOW 25 (twenty five) megabytes. The system is currently not able to accept submission files which are larger than 25 megabytes. To keep the file size small, you can separate the picture(s) from the main text and submit them in Supplementary File section during your submission process.
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Please make sure that you have format your citations using Mendeley. Unformatted citations by Mendeley may results in rejection of your paper.