The manuscript must be your original work. All sources must be credited. The first author must have played a significant role in the design, execution, analysis and writing for this paper. Our Editor-in-Chief will enter your submission to an anti-plagiarism software to verify the originality of your work.

All key collaborators, supervisors, and/or principal investigators must give permission (form attached here) for the manuscript to be submitted. Please include this permission form with your submission if applicable.

• For theses, permission is required from your thesis supervisor and any co-authors.
• For all other articles, permission is required from any co-authors.

Manuscripts must be a maximum word count of 8,000 words (not including figure legends, references and appendices). Exceptions to these general guidelines should be discussed with the editors.

We can accept longer works if you are willing to collaborate with our editors on reducing length; please mention this in your submission form.

Manuscripts must be in a known and discipline-relevant citation style.

• Manuscripts can abide by any writing style/format for academic documents (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago), but the style must be used consistently throughout the document.

Graphs or figures are acceptable in colour.