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 Microsoft Word document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. DOI index in the list of references is indicated if available.
• The text has been prepared in accordance with the requirements set out in the " Requirements for the design of articles"
• The abstract for the article contains 150-200 words.