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 has not been previously published in English. If it was published in another language, you have provided details in the "Notes to the Editor" section below.
• The article is not under consideration by any other journal.
  
  
• If this article was previously submitted to another journal, you have included an explanation in "Notes to the Editor" and sent formal written evidence of its rejection or withdrawal from the initial submission location to editor@jngr5.com.
• If the article builds upon a conference paper, you have reviewed the guidelines under "Preparing Articles" in the Author Guidelines. You have also included a statement: "This article is a revised and expanded version of a paper titled [title] presented at [name, location, and date of conference]."
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• When submitting, please choose the "Peer-reviewed Conference Papers" section to ensure your paper is categorized accurately, as this section is specifically for peer-reviewed conference submissions. For articles intended for publication, please select the "Articles" section.