Submissions

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.

• The article has not been previously published, and is not submitting to another journal. The Author Declaration Form (see below) has been filled out and signed.
• Article scope is field and/or laboratory experiment, or review article.
• Year of experiment is less than five years.
• Text and reference styles have followed the Author Guidelines (see below); use journal template (see below).
• Number of words for title is less than 13.
• Number of words for abstract is less than 200.
• Keywords: maximum 5, different from words in title.
• No reference within reference.
• References are at least 80% aged 10 years or less.
• References are at least 80% from journal article.
• Number of total pages is 8 to 12.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.docx) file format.
• Self similarity checking using an available checking software (e.g. Turnitin) has been performed, and the similarity results is less than 20% excluding reference.