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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.
  • I/We have used the standard downloadable template for the Cover Letter, Title Page, and Manuscript, downloaded from the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word file (*.docx or *.doc) format only.
  • The main manuscript contains no author names/affiliations, acknowledgements, or self-identifying notes, and file properties/metadata have been anonymized.
  • During submission of an article, Cover Letter & Title page shall be submitted as a supplementary file in accordance with the Journal's guidelines.
  • During submission of an article, All figures have been included in the main body of the manuscript in word file format. Figures have not been submitted in separate files.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • Required approvals and statements are present: IRB/IEC (human), IAEC/IACUC (animal), informed consent for publication where individuals could be identified, and adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki / relevant animal-care standards.
  • I/We have read the Article Processing Charges (APC) policy and I/We agree to pay the Article Processing Charges upon acceptance of my/our article(s) for publishing.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright. Upon acceptance, authors grant APALM a non-exclusive right to publish the Version of Record. All articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), permitting sharing and adaptation for any lawful purpose with attribution, a link to the license, and indication of changes.

Authors may enter into additional non-exclusive agreements to distribute the published version (e.g., in a repository or book) with acknowledgement of initial publication in APALM; self-archiving of the preprint, accepted manuscript, and Version of Record is permitted with appropriate citation and DOI linking (see Repository & Self-Archiving Policy).

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