Submission Requirements

As part of the submission process, authors are required to ensure that their manuscript complies with all of the requirements listed below. Submissions that do not conform to the journal's requirements will be returned to the authors.

  • The manuscript must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If this is not the case, an explanation must be provided in the Comments to the Editor field.
  • Submission of a concise cover letter (maximum of one page) is mandatory; this letter must present the relevance, originality, and novelty of your manuscript to the editor, as well as its innovative nature and the appropriate ethical statements. The letter must also include five (5) suggestions for potential reviewers, providing their full names, institutional affiliations, and contact email addresses.
  • Complete authorship information for all authors must be entered during the submission process. Use the “Add Author” function to include all co-authors.
  • All metadata must be provided in English, including the title, abstract, and keywords.
  • Figures and tables must be embedded within the manuscript and not placed at the end of the document. Figures, graphs, equations, diagrams, and other illustrations must be of suitable publication quality, use a white background only, and be prepared at consistent dimensions to allow uniform resizing (maximum single-column width: 8 cm). Scanned images must have a minimum resolution of 800 dpi (bitmap).
  • For research involving human participants or vertebrate animals, authors must upload, as a supplementary file, a copy of the approval issued by the appropriate Research Ethics Committee, including the corresponding Certificate of Presentation for Ethical Consideration (CAAE) number, where applicable, and in accordance with the legislation of the country in which the research was conducted.
  • All references cited in the manuscript must also be entered in the submission metadata in alphabetical order, without numbering, leaving one blank line between each reference.
  • To ensure the integrity of the double-blind peer review process, all information that could identify the authors must be removed from both the manuscript file and the Microsoft Word document properties, in accordance with the instructions provided under Ensuring a Blind Peer Review.