Summary of Important Items When Submitting a Manuscript
- Make sure your paper has content that is appropriate for the journal. Unreviewed publications that are outside of scope will be sent back to the writers. Please read the journal's Aim & Scope.
- Please read the publishing ethics webpage.
- Please include a cover letter outlining the manuscript's significance.
- The three most crucial screening criteria are believed to be correctness, grammar, and spelling. Your text will be returned if it has any grammatical or spelling mistakes.
- At the editor's discretion, manuscripts that do not satisfy the novelty, significance, and competence requirements (Aim & Scope of the Journal) may be returned to authors at any time.
- Make sure that figures are properly labeled (with coordinates, a scale bar, and an orientation) and that the resolution is acceptable for the scale of the publication.
- Decide whether your article should be a research, application, review, or short note (see Aim & Scope of the journal). Make sure your text doesn't exceed the word count for the article type you select. Note that the maximum word count only considers the text, not the abstract, keywords, references, or captions.
- Address the reviewers' remarks in detail, point by point, if you are submitting a revised article. This includes any requests for linguistic alterations.
- The structure of your manuscript must be, in brief:
- (a) Word processing format (i.e. MS Word or LaTeX during the submission). The amended paper should not be sent as a PDF file.
- (b) Single column.
- (c) Double-spaced lines.
- (d) Line numbers.
- (e) Follow the journal's reference format requirements.
- (f) separate and correctly labelled figures must be uploaded throughout the submission process.
- (g) At the end of the text document, include a separate list of the captions for the figures and tables.