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Instructions For Authors: New Submission
Instructions For Authors: New Submission
NEW SUBMISSION
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading
of your files. Please submit your manuscript as a single Word document, in any format or layout that can be used by
referees to evaluate your manuscript.
There are no strict formatting requirements in this phase, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements
recognized in scientific paper, such as Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and
Discussion, Conclusions. Please ensure the figures and the tables included in the single file are placed next to the
relevant text in the manuscript, rather than at the bottom or the top of the file. The corresponding caption should be
placed directly below the figure and above the table. Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections.
References should follow style defined style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s)
name(s), journal title/ book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the
article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference style used by the
journal will be applied to the accepted article by Elsevier at the proof stage. Note that missing data will be highlighted
at proof stage for the author to correct.
For citations of references, we prefer the use of square brackets and consecutive (Arabic numerals) numbers and
ordered according to where they are first mentioned in the paper, not alphabetically. The following bibliography
provides a sample reference list with entries for journal articles [1], a book [2], a chapter in the book [3], proceedings
[4], as well as a URL [5]. Please add DOI code when available. Examples follow:
[1] Surname 1, Initials., Surname 2, Initials. (year). Title of journal article. Journal name, volume, number, pages,
DOI code.
[2] Surname 1, Initials, Surname 2, Initials (year). Title of the book. Publisher, place of publication.
[3] Surname 1, Initials, Surname 2, Initials (year). Chapter title. Editor(s) of book, book title. Publisher, place of
publication, pages.
[4] Surname 1, Initials, Surname 2, Initials (year). Paper title. Proceeding’s title, pages.
[5] Surname, Initials or Company name. Title, from http://address, date of access.