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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-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.
  • I have read and followed the updated Author Guidelines, including the inclusion of an AI Usage Statement, Author Contributions, Funding Statement, and Conflict of Interest declaration at the end of the manuscript.
  • I confirm that this manuscript has a similarity index of less than 20% according to plagiarism detection software.
  • At least 80% of the references used in this manuscript are primary literature published within the last 10 years.