Submission Preparation Checklist

• • This manuscript is original and has not been previously published in any electronic or print medium. If it was previously presented at a conference or meeting, the name, date, and location of the event are clearly stated in the manuscript.
  • The manuscript complies with the journal’s ethical standards and publication policies (COPE, ICMJE, etc.), and all required ethics committee approvals and/or informed consent statements have been obtained and are stated in the manuscript, where applicable.
  • The manuscript has been prepared in accordance with the appropriate reporting guideline for its study type (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, CARE, ARRIVE, etc.), and all required checklists and flow diagrams are prepared and ready for submission, where applicable.
  • A separate title page has been prepared, including the full title, running head, author names, affiliations, academic degrees, ORCID IDs, funding information, and complete corresponding author contact details.
  • All authors meet the authorship criteria, approve the final version of the manuscript, and the ICMJE Disclosure Forms and Copyright Agreement / Acknowledgement of Authorship Form are completed and ready for submission.
  • Statistical analyses follow international reporting standards, the statistical software used is specified, units follow the International System of Units (SI), and references are prepared according to the APA Manual of Style (11th Edition).
  • The manuscript file, tables, figures, and supplementary materials are prepared according to the journal’s author guidelines, and the main manuscript file is suitable for double-blind peer review with no identifying author or institutional information.