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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.
  • I, the submitting author, warrant that I am authorized by all co-authors to submit this version of the manuscript and to be their spokesperson during the review process and beyond.
  • SettingsI confirm that each of the manuscript’s authors meet all three of the following criteria: (1) has made a substantial contribution to the design of the study, the collection of the data or the analysis or...
  • 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).
  • To facilitate the peer review process, I/we have provided a complete manuscript file (PDF, DOC or RTF), with all tables, figures, legends and supplementary material (if applicable) placed at the end of the manuscript,...
  • All material presented in the manuscript where the copyright is held by a third party has been produced in a correct manner and the necessary permissions have been obtained from the author.

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