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 PDF document file format.

• The submission has a separated file Similarity Report from Turnitin
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.