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• The submission is original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal, unless otherwise stated in the Comments to the Editor.
• All third-party content, including text, images, data, and ideas, has been properly cited, credited, or quoted, and permissions have been obtained where required.
• The authors authorise the Editorial Team to screen the submission using Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate) to verify its originality.
• The peer-review file has been uploaded as an anonymised PDF, with all author-identifying information removed.
• The manuscript and all supplementary files comply with the journal’s Author Guidelines, including formatting, references, captions, figures, tables, file formats, and naming conventions.