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Article Submission Guidelines

All submissions must adhere to the following criteria to be considered for publication:

  • File Format: Article must be submitted in .doc or .docx form
  • Word limit: the manuscript should be at most 4000 words/8 uninterrupted pages of content, excluding title, name, references, equations or figure labels
  • Font: 
    • Manuscript must be in Times New Roman, 12-point
  • Text within figures also must use Times New Roman
  • References: Follow Nature’s citation style
    • Numbered sequentially in the order they appear in the manuscript, each number correspond to a single unique reference,
    • Cited references must be published articles or articles uploaded to a preprint server such as arXiv or bioRxiv,
    • Thus, all references should include a link to the article DOI if available
    • Use ISO 4 abbreviations for journal titles
    • In-text citations: 
      • superscript numbers before any punctuation
      • Numbers will be separated with commas if there are multiple citations for the same point
      • If the citation is too close to a number in the text, put brackets around the citation numbers
    • Author Listing:
      • Surname, First-Name Initial
      • If there are less than 5 authors, list all their names in the reference 
      • If more than 5 authors, list only the first author followed by “et al.”