Submissions

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 published previously, nor is it under consideration for another journal. (otherwise, an explanation should be provided in Comments to the Editor).
• You may refer to the Instruction for Authors for further details.
• The combined size of all files should not exceed 200 MB. If this is a problem, please contact the journal editorial office.
• Please provide the names and emails of five potential reviewers who are experts in the field relevant to your manuscript. You may list the informtion in your coveletter, or in "Comments for the editor".