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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.

  • The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in 'Comments to the editor')
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic conditions included in the Authors guidelines, in 'Submissions'.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
  • Are the title, abstract and keywords in English included?
  • All illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • Wherever possible, doi or URLs are provided for references.
  • To submit manuscripts to the Peer review process, please follow the instructions provided in Authors guidelines, in 'Submissions'.
  • In 'Metadata - Authorship and contributors' should be clearly stated: the complete name of each author, their institutional affiliation (or 'Independent', if applicable) and, if possible, the Orcid identifier. Co-authorships: up to 3 authors will be attributed equal responsibility, regardless of the order in which they appear. It is suggested to mention the rest in "Acknowledgements" or by specifying the role of each contribution using the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).