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.- The submission (or any of its parts) has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication by any other journal.
- The submission is in PDF format. Files in other formats (LaTeX, .md, .odt, .docx, or .rtf) can be submitted upon acceptance for publication.
- By submitting your manuscript, you agree to copy-edit the manuscript according to the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, in case it is accepted for publication.
- By submitting a manuscript, you agree to have the document scanned for plagiarism.
- The submitted manuscript has been anonymized* to enable double-blind review and does not contain any explicit clues indicating the identity of the authors. *Please also check the "properties" of your file.
- Please indicate in the "Comments for the Editor" box whether you are submitting your manuscript as a contribution to a Special Issue or as a stand-alone article.
- PhiMiSci aims at double-blind peer review. Please leave a note in the "Comments for the Editor" box if your manuscript has been uploaded on a preprint server.
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