Review manuscript
- Manuscript title
Use a concise and informative title. Do not include author information. - Abstract
Provide the purpose, method, principal findings, and conclusion in no more than 300 words. - Keywords
List four to six searchable terms. - Introduction
State the context, research gap, objectives, and hypotheses or research questions. - Method
Describe design, participants, sampling, materials or measures, procedure, ethics, and analysis. - Results
Report findings clearly, including relevant descriptive and inferential information. - Discussion
Interpret findings in relation to the objectives and literature, then address implications and limitations. - Conclusion
Summarize the principal contribution without introducing new claims. - Declarations
Use anonymized placeholders where a declaration would reveal identity. - References
Format references consistently in APA 7th edition style.
Separate title page
- Full manuscript title and short running title
- Author names in publication order
- Institutional affiliations and countries
- Corresponding-author email and postal address
- ORCID iDs, where available
- Author contribution statement
- Funding, conflict-of-interest, ethics, consent, data, acknowledgement, and AI-use statements
File checks
Before upload, inspect document properties, comments, tracked changes, headers, footers, acknowledgements, and self-citations for information that could identify the authors during double-blind review.