Before submitting, please carefully review our author guidelines to ensure that your work meets our standards. Following these guidelines will improve readability during the review process and help speed up the article review and proofreading process.
Manuscripts should be written in Microsoft Word. You can download the Manuscript Submission Template or Latex Template and Cover Letter to prepare your manuscript.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to confirm 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 under another journal, or is currently under consideration for another journal.
The document(s) have been formatted according to the requirements under Author Guidelines. The placement of illustrations, figures, graphs, tables, and equations have been integrated into the main manuscript.
All necessary sections are included, such as an abstract, keywords, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references.
Manuscripts are confirmed to be written in clear and concise English, with proper grammar and punctuation.
DOIs or URLs have been provided wherever possible in the Reference List.
Including a cover letter explaining the significance of your work and how it fits within the scope of our journal.
Cover Letter
All manuscript submissions should include a cover letter in a separate document that should include:
Names and affiliations of all authors (e.g., department, university, province/city/state, postal code, country).
Informed consent: confirming that written consent was obtained from all participants prior to submission of the article.
Ethics statement: If the currently submitted article Involves research with human or animal subjects, or involves pathology reports, etc., then the authors of the article will need to provide relevant materials for an appropriate ethics statement for all types of academic research.
Trial registration: e.g., name of trial registry, trial registration number.
Provide 3-5 highlights of your paper, which summarize the main findings and important conclusions of the research. These highlights should be presented in short bullet points and briefly describe the novelty and significance of the research.
