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 manuscript has never been published before, and is not under consideration for publication in another journal (or already described in the Comments to the Editor).
• The script file is in Microsoft Word document format.
• The accessible online references should have their URLs written.
• The manuscript follows the rules of style and bibliography required in the Author's Guide.