Submissions

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.
• An Ethics statement included as appropriate. Where ethical approval has been required please include details (eg. "...has been approved by the ethics Committee of XXX University, ref. EC-234-5a")
• A statement relating to potential conflict of interest is included (eg. "Simulation software evaluated in this paper was provided free of charge by....", or "No conflict of interest is perceived in this work")
• A statement related to the use of AI in preparation or analysis of the paper and the work presented is included as appropriate.
• Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
• The text is formatted as described in the template document.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.