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 submitted article has not been published before and is not under review for publication in any other journal.
• The submitted file is in Microsoft Word format.
• The text of the article adheres to the principles of article writing and referencing mentioned in the author guidelines. This guide is available in the "About the Journal" section.