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.

• Background: JIS and SOL were consulted and the submission is duly situated within the context of relevant related works
• The Cover Letter is presenting all the necessary information for Editors and Reviewers (see Authors Guidelines)
• The manuscript is original, has not been published and is not currently under consideration by another journal or conference (duplicate submissions are desk rejected)
• The manuscript explicitly indicates how the ethical issues of the research were addressed and managed, including the research approval by an ethics committee when applicable
• If the manuscript is an extended version of a published paper, at least 40% of new and original content is provided, and the original contribution is clearly explained
• If the manuscript is an extended version of a paper already published, the original paper is also included as an additional document in the submission
• The manuscript file is in PDF file format
• Research materials are duly available and accessible and are listed in the Declarations section
• Authors' contributions, following the CRediT taxonomy, are outlined in the Declarations section
• Authors' ORCID numbers have been included in the first page
• Authors' institution names are informed as registered in RoR, in English
• All authors of the manuscript have read and agreed to its content and are accountable for all aspects of the accuracy and integrity of the manuscript
• All authors agree with the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which will apply to this submission if accepted for publication in this journal.