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Submission guidelines

Submission guidelines
Contents
Instructions for Authors
Manuscript Submission
Specific remarks
Title page
Text
LaTeX and Online Submission
Scientific style
References
Tables
Artwork and Illustrations Guidelines
Electronic Supplementary Material
English Language Editing
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Compliance with Ethical Standards
Conflicts of Interest / Competing Interests
 Research Data Policy
After acceptance
Open Choice

Instructions for Authors

Manuscript Submission

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under
consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well
as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The
publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required
to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that
such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will
be assumed to originate from the authors.

Online Submission

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the
instructions given on the screen.

Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause
unnecessary delays in the review and production process.

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Specific remarks

Authors should answer the below three questions during submission:

(1) What is your main contribution to the field?

(2) What is novel? In theory, in experimental techniques, or a combination of both?

(3) Does your paper have industrial applications? If yes, who are the likely user?

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Title page

Title Page

Please use this template title page for providing the following information.

The title page should include:

 The name(s) of the author(s)

A concise and informative title

The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country

A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author

If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.

For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-
mail address unless specifically requested.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or
unspecified references.

For life science journals only (when applicable)

Trial registration number and date of registration

Trial registration number, date of registration followed by “retrospectively registered”

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Declarations

All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'.

If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for
that section.

To be used for non-life science journals

Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)

Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)

Availability of data and material (data transparency)

Code availability (software application or custom code)

Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are
mandatory)

To be used for life science journals + articles with biological applications

Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)

Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)

Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)

Consent to participate (include appropriate statements)

Consent for publication (include appropriate statements)

Availability of data and material (data transparency)

Code availability (software application or custom code)

Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are
mandatory)

Please see the relevant sections in the submission guidelines for further information as well as various examples of
wording. Please revise/customize the sample statements according to your own needs.

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Text
For first (initial) submissions, we require a single file containing your manuscript as a minimum (Word or PDF).
While full source files for LaTeX submissions are encouraged we understand that you may prefer to submit only a
PDF at this stage.

For revised submissions we strongly recommend to upload the editable source files (either Word or LaTeX)
together with a PDF of the revised (LaTeX) manuscript for reference. We can process a PDF-only submission, but
upon acceptance source files are mandatory and providing source files after acceptance may delay production.

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in LaTeX. Please use Springer’s LaTeX macro package and choose the formatting
option “twocolumn”.

The submission should include the original source (including all style files and figures) and a PDF version of the
compiled output.

LaTeX macro package (Download zip, 188 kB)

Word files are also accepted.

Headings

Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the
reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the
bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case
letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the
article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names
of funding organizations should be written in full.

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LaTeX and Online Submission

All source files you upload in the online submission system will be automatically compiled into a single PDF file to
be approved by you at the end of the submission process. While the compiled PDF will be used for peer-review
purposes, your uploaded source files will be transferred to the publisher for publication upon acceptance.

Please do not use subfolders for your LaTeX submission, e.g. for figures or bibliographic files. Further technical
information on uploading and compiling your LaTeX submission can be found under

http://www.editorialmanager.de/pdf/latex/

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Scientific style

Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units).

Please use the standard mathematical notation for formulae, symbols etc.:

Italic for single letters that denote mathematical constants, variables, and unknown quantities

Roman/upright for numerals, operators, and punctuation, and commonly defined functions or abbreviations, e.g.,
cos, det, e or exp, lim, log, max, min, sin, tan, d (for derivative)

Bold for vectors, tensors, and matrices.

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References

Citation

Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:

1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].

2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman [5].

3. This effect has been widely studied [1-3, 7].

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted
for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use
footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.

Journal article

Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high
intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-
738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8

Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be
accepted:

Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329

Article by DOI

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086

Book

South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

Book chapter

Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn.
Wiley, New York, pp 230-257

Online document

Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007

Dissertation

Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations,
see

ISSN.org LTWA

If you are unsure, please use the full journal title.

For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and
reference list.

EndNote style (Download zip, 4 kB)

Authors preparing their manuscript in LaTeX can use the bibtex file spbasic.bst which is included in Springer’s
LaTeX macro package.
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Tables
All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end
of the table caption.
Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values
and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

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Artwork and Illustrations Guidelines

Electronic Figure Submission

Supply all figures electronically.

Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MSOffice files are
also acceptable.
Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.

Line Art

Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.

Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at
final size.
All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
 Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

Halftone Art

Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.

If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures
themselves.
Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Combination Art

Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line drawing, extensive lettering,
color diagrams, etc.
 Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.

Color Art

Color art is free of charge for online publication.

If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be
visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another when converted to black and white. A simple
way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different
colors are still apparent.
If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).

Figure Lettering

To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).

Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt
type for the axis label.
Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.

Figure Numbering

All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.

Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive
numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures,"A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online
appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.

Figure Captions

Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions
in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the
caption.
Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate
points in graphs.
Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the
end of the figure caption.

Figure Placement and Size

Figures should be submitted separately from the text, if possible.

When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.
For large-sized journals the figures should be 84 mm (for double-column text areas), or 174 mm (for single-
column text areas) wide and not higher than 234 mm.
For small-sized journals, the figures should be 119 mm wide and not higher than 195 mm.

Permissions
If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright
owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights
for free and that Springer will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions.
In such cases, material from other sources should be used.

Accessibility

In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your figures, please make sure that

All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use a text-to-speech software or a text-to-Braille
hardware)

Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colors for conveying information (colorblind users would then
be able to distinguish the visual elements)

Any figure lettering has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1

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Electronic Supplementary Material

Springer accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be
published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author's article, as
certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.

Before submitting research datasets as electronic supplementary material, authors should read the journal’s
Research data policy. We encourage research data to be archived in data repositories wherever possible.

Submission

Supply all supplementary material in standard file formats.

Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author names; affiliation and
e-mail address of the corresponding author.
To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may require very long download
times and that some users may experience other problems during downloading.

Audio, Video, and Animations

Aspect ratio: 16:9 or 4:3

Maximum file size: 25 GB
Minimum video duration: 1 sec
Supported file formats: avi, wmv, mp4, mov, m2p, mp2, mpg, mpeg, flv, mxf, mts, m4v, 3gp

Text and Presentations

Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability.
A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets should be submitted as .csv or .xlsx files (MS Excel).

Specialized Formats

Specialized format such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be
supplied.

Collecting Multiple Files

It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.

Numbering

If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation,
similar to that of figures and tables.
Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource
3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.

Captions

For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.

Processing of supplementary files

Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion,
editing, or reformatting.

Accessibility

In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make
sure that

The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material

Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to
seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)

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English Language Editing

For editors and reviewers to accurately assess the work presented in your manuscript you need to ensure the
English language is of sufficient quality to be understood. If you need help with writing in English you should
consider:

Asking a colleague who is a native English speaker to review your manuscript for clarity.

Visiting the English language tutorial which covers the common mistakes when writing in English.

Using a professional language editing service where editors will improve the English to ensure that your
meaning is clear and identify problems that require your review. Two such services are provided by our
affiliates Nature Research Editing Service and American Journal Experts. Springer authors are entitled to a
10% discount on their first submission to either of these services, simply follow the links below.
English language tutorial

Nature Research Editing Service

American Journal Experts

Please note that the use of a language editing service is not a requirement for publication in this journal and does
not imply or guarantee that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted.

If your manuscript is accepted it will be checked by our copyeditors for spelling and formal style before
publication.

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如果您需要英文写作方面的帮助，您可以考虑：

● 请一位以英语为母语的同事审核您的稿件是否表意清晰。

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问题。我们的附属机构 Nature Research Editing Service 和合作伙伴 American Journal Experts 即可提供此类
服务。

教程

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同行评议或被接受。

如果您的稿件被接受，在发表之前，我们的文字编辑会检查您的文稿拼写是否规范以及文体是否正式。

エディターと査読者があなたの論文を正しく評価するには、使用されている英語の質が十分に高いこと
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Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

This journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. As a member of the Committee on
Publication Ethics (COPE) the journal will follow the COPE guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of
misconduct.

Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results which could damage the trust in the journal, the
professionalism of scientific authorship, and ultimately the entire scientific endeavour. Maintaining integrity of the
research and its presentation is helped by following the rules of good scientific practice, which include*:

The manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.

The submitted work should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or
language (partially or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work. (Please provide
transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the concerns about text-recycling (‘self-plagiarism’).

A single study should not be split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted
to various journals or to one journal over time (i.e. ‘salami-slicing/publishing’).

Concurrent or secondary publication is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. Examples
include: translations or a manuscript that is intended for a different group of readers.

Results should be presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data
manipulation (including image based manipulation). Authors should adhere to discipline-specific rules for
acquiring, selecting and processing data.

No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (‘plagiarism’). Proper
acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near
verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks (to indicate words taken from another source)
are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions secured for material that is copyrighted.

Important note: the journal may use software to screen for plagiarism.

Authors should make sure they have permissions for the use of software, questionnaires/(web) surveys and
scales in their studies (if appropriate).

Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. Opinion, Review, and Commentary articles) must cite
appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or
coordinated efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite is strongly discouraged.

Authors should avoid untrue statements about an entity (who can be an individual person or a company) or
descriptions of their behavior or actions that could potentially be seen as personal attacks or allegations about
that person.

Research that may be misapplied to pose a threat to public health or national security should be clearly
identified in the manuscript (e.g. dual use of research). Examples include creation of harmful consequences
of biological agents or toxins, disruption of immunity of vaccines, unusual hazards in the use of chemicals,
weaponization of research/technology (amongst others).

Authors are strongly advised to ensure the author group, the Corresponding Author, and the order of authors
are all correct at submission. Adding and/or deleting authors during the revision stages is generally not
permitted, but in some cases may be warranted. Reasons for changes in authorship should be explained in
detail. Please note that changes to authorship cannot be made after acceptance of a manuscript.

*All of the above are guidelines and authors need to make sure to respect third parties rights such as copyright
and/or moral rights.

Upon request authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data in order to verify the validity of
the results presented. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc. Sensitive information in the form
of confidential or proprietary data is excluded.

If there is suspicion of misbehavior or alleged fraud the Journal and/or Publisher will carry out an investigation
following COPE guidelines. If, after investigation, there are valid concerns, the author(s) concerned will be
contacted under their given e-mail address and given an opportunity to address the issue. Depending on the
situation, this may result in the Journal’s and/or Publisher’s implementation of the following measures, including,
but not limited to:

If the manuscript is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.

If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction:

- an erratum/correction may be placed with the article

- an expression of concern may be placed with the article

- or in severe cases retraction of the article may occur.

The reason will be given in the published erratum/correction, expression of concern or retraction note. Please note
that retraction means that the article is maintained on the platform, watermarked “retracted” and the explanation
for the retraction is provided in a note linked to the watermarked article.

The author’s institution may be informed

A notice of suspected transgression of ethical standards in the peer review system may be included as part of
the author’s and article’s bibliographic record.

Fundamental errors

Authors have an obligation to correct mistakes once they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their
published article. The author(s) is/are requested to contact the journal and explain in what sense the error is
impacting the article. A decision on how to correct the literature will depend on the nature of the error. This may be
a correction or retraction. The retraction note should provide transparency which parts of the article are impacted
by the error.

Suggesting / excluding reviewers

Authors are welcome to suggest suitable reviewers and/or request the exclusion of certain individuals when they
submit their manuscripts. When suggesting reviewers, authors should make sure they are totally independent and
not connected to the work in any way. It is strongly recommended to suggest a mix of reviewers from different
countries and different institutions. When suggesting reviewers, the Corresponding Author must provide an
institutional email address for each suggested reviewer, or, if this is not possible to include other means of verifying
the identity such as a link to a personal homepage, a link to the publication record or a researcher or author ID in
the submission letter. Please note that the Journal may not use the suggestions, but suggestions are appreciated and
may help facilitate the peer review process.

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Compliance with Ethical Standards

To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional
conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of
interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement
on welfare of animals if the research involved animals.

Authors should include the following statements (if applicable) in a separate section entitled “Compliance with
Ethical Standards” when submitting a paper:
 Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest

Research involving Human Participants and/or Animals

Informed consent

Please note that standards could vary slightly per journal dependent on their peer review policies (i.e. single or
double blind peer review) as well as per journal subject discipline. Before submitting your article check the
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