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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.- Make sure you attach a single pdf file for your submission (other files may be requested later, on acceptance).
- Please take a look at our list of Editors, and suggest one of them to handle your submission by inserting the name in the "Comments for the Editor".
- The submission is not currently under review by another publication.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Permission has been obtained from the copyright holder and the author(s) of figures, tables, animations or text quotations for copyrighted works (including websites) included in the paper.
- The corresponding author has notified the co-authors of the existence and the terms of this submission.
- The authors take full responsibility for the originality of the submitted work.
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