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 file format.
• The text adheres to all requirements outlined in the link "Authors".
• Manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review.
• All manuscripts are checked for plagiarism