Author Guidance

Checklist item 1: Confirm fit with the aims and scope.

Checklist item 2: Prepare title, abstract, keywords, author names, affiliations, and corresponding author details.

Checklist item 3: Use a clear article structure appropriate to the manuscript type.

Checklist item 4: Check references, figures, tables, supplementary materials, and permissions.

Checklist item 5: Include funding, conflicts of interest, ethics approval, consent, data availability, acknowledgements, and AI/tool-use disclosures where relevant.

Checklist item 6: Upload a clean manuscript file through the submission portal.