Ethical Guidelines

This journal adheres to COPE’s principles and ethical standards throughout its publication.

Authors

Authors have made a substantial contribution to the submitted work, including a substantial contribution to the conception and design, acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data, drafting the article, or making essential revisions to it. They can be held accountable for the work and its final published form. The authors' names appear on the article's first page and in the bio sections.

This journal usually only accepts manuscripts with up to six authors, unless a good reason is provided for adding more than six authors.

It is mandatory that all authors, throughout the article submission process and in their correspondence with the journal, utilize their academic email addresses.

The authors must jointly discuss authorship and the order of the authors before submitting the manuscript to this journal. Changes are not possible once a manuscript has been accepted. All authors should be listed; non-author contributors, such as translators, proofreaders, layout editors, etc., may be acknowledged in the acknowledgement section of the PDF version of the article.