Declaration of interest

All authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships with third parties and/or organizations that could inappropriately influence the results of the work submitted for consideration by this journal. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include current employment and consultancies, stock ownership, fees, paid expert testimony, joint patent or registration applications, and grants or competitive funds.

Authors must disclose their interests by providing a statement of interests in the "Cover Letter." If there are no conflicts of interest to declare, the following must be written: "Declaration of interest: none" in the cover letter. The declaration will be published if the article is accepted.

Declaration of originality

Articles submitted to this journal must be original (except for abstracts, academic conference presentations, or elements of theses or final graduation projects) and not under consideration for publication in other academic journals.

The cover letter must indicate that all authors involved in the preparation of the publication have approved its submission to this journal. If the article is accepted for publication, it must be declared that it will not be published in any other medium, in the same form, or in any other language, including electronically. The originality and absence of plagiarism will be verified using the Turnitin tool.

Financing of the proposal

The institution that provided financial support for the development of the research and/or preparation of the article must be identified. The role of the sponsoring entities in the different parts of the research—such as study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, article writing, and the decision to submit the proposal for review—must be briefly described. If the article was developed without external funding, this must be indicated. In all cases, the information should be included in the "Cover Letter."