Submissions

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 author(s) confirm that this submission has not been published elsewhere and is not currently under review by any other journal.
• The author(s) are aware that it is required to upload the Title Page and Anonymized Manuscript as separate documents.
• The author(s) confirm that the Title Page and Anonymized Manuscript uploaded adhere to the Author Guidelines.
• The author(s) confirm that the reporting style employed adheres to the Author Guidelines.
• The author(s) confirm that the anonymized Manuscript and Title Page are submitted in the format of doc. or docx., and not in the format of rtf. or PDF.
• The author(s) confirm that URLs for the references have been supplied wherever applicable.
• The authors have explicitly articulated the permission statement concerning the instruments utilized in their research. Should the instruments be classified as public domain, this fact must be indicated. Additionally, a thorough explanation should be provided if no permission is necessary. Omitting this information could lead to immediate rejection of the submission.
• The author(s) bestow upon ICHJ the rights to act as a publisher, granting the organization the authority for the first publication of all content licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC 4.0.
• The author(s) agree to pay the Article Processing Charge within ten days after the editorial acceptance of the manuscript.
• The author(s) are aware that not adhering to the submission checklists will cause their manuscript to be rejected without delay.
• The author(s) are aware that submitting the same manuscript to more than one publication will result in their being blacklisted.