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 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.
• Where available, URLs and/or DOIs for the references have been provided.
• The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• Please upload a file detailing information/contributions of author, funding info., competing interests, and comments to editor, if applicable, as found in the Author Guidelines.
  
• Please download the ICMJE Form for the Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest
  here and upload one filled form for each author at the next step.
  
• Please download the Submission Declaration Form
  
  here and upload at the next step.
• Author(s)' nomination of five potential reviewers is requested. Please download the Peer Reviewer Nomination Form
  here and upload at the next step.