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.

• 1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
• 2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
• 3. Important information about the author and co-authors: Authors must be clearly identified by their first and last names. They must submit the professional affiliations and email addresses of each author, along with their ORCID identifier. Each author must also disclose any conflicts of interest related to the submitted manuscript, list their contributions, and provide contact information for the corresponding author, including their work address, telephone number, and email address.
• 4. References in Vancouver-NLM style https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/
• 5. High-resolution photographs, editable tables, editable or high-resolution figures, in separate files, with title and description of each image (source or note).