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 manuscript submitted is an original work, has not been published, and is not currently under review or in the process of being published in another journal. If there are special circumstances, an explanation has been included in the Comments for the Editor section.

• The manuscript file is submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx).

• The manuscript has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines, templates, and writing requirements applicable to this journal, including compliance with the style and reference writing system as stated in the Author Guidelines in the About the Journal menu.

• All author identities (names, affiliations, and email addresses) have been listed completely and correctly, and have been confirmed and approved by each author. It is not permitted to include the names of other parties without a real contribution to the writing of the manuscript, including the practice of including authors for administrative or reputational purposes.

• For manuscripts that undergo a peer-review process, the author has ensured that the author's identity is not included in the main manuscript file to guarantee a blind review process.

• The reference list has been written using a reference management application (Mendeley Desktop) in accordance with the citation style specified by the journal, and each reference has been provided with a URL or DOI (if available and accessible).

• The authors declare their willingness to pay the publication fee (Article Processing Charge/APC) in accordance with the provisions applicable to this journal.

• If it is later discovered that the manuscript is being processed or published in another journal, or that there has been a violation of publication ethics, the author is willing to accept administrative sanctions and/or fines in accordance with the journal's applicable policies.

• The authors have conducted a plagiarism check and AI-detection screening prior to submission. The similarity index does not exceed 20%. The official screening reports must be uploaded to the Upload File section as supporting documents.