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.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, NOT at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
• Where necessary, an approval was obtained from your institution's/national Ethical Review Board (for research involving human subjects)
• I have filled and uploaded the Conflict of Interest form available from ICJME at (http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/)