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As part of the submission process, corresponding authors are asked to confirm or accept the following conditions on behalf of all authors of the article.
☑ The submitted manuscript is previously unpublished and has not been submitted to any other journal (otherwise a statement is attached in "Comments to the Editor").
☑ The corresponding author grants the journal the unrestricted right of first publication on behalf of all authors.
☑ The corresponding author declares in his/her own name and in the name of all authors to have written the submitted work himself / herself and to be its author in the legal sense (in the case of several authors: jointly co-author).
☑ The corresponding author assures that he/she is authorized by all authors to make the declarations listed here, and that he/she and all other authors can dispose of the rights to the extent stated; in particular, that no rights of third parties conflict with the publication. In this respect, they jointly and severally indemnify the journal, the Hamburg State and University Library, and the publisher Hamburg University Press from third-party claims.
☑ All published articles in this journal are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. By submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author accepts publication after successful peer review on behalf of all authors under the CC BY 4.0 license.
☑ The corresponding author accepts distribution of the article's metadata after successful peer review under the CC0 1.0 universal license on behalf of all authors.
☑ The privacy policy of the journal is acknowledged.
☑ The manuscript file is saved as Microsoft Word dokument (*.docx).
☑ Text, tables, and figures follow the stylistic and bibliographic guidelines found in the formatting guidelines.
☑ Digital object identifiers (DOI) have been added to the references where available and linked (hyperlinks).
☑ All figures can be provided in vector format (e.g. *.pdf / *.eps) or as high-resolution pixel images (e.g. *.png) in case of a successful review process. See formatting guidelines of the journal.
☑ In accordance with the journal's ethical guidelines, the paper contains the following statements: (1) author contributions following the CRediT taxonomy, (2) data availability, (3) funding information, and (4) conflicts of interest.
☑ The journal's author guidelines not named here are also met.
Author guidelines
Please read the author guidelines carefully. Submissions that do not meet the author guidelines may be rejected according to the journal's review process.
In the author guidelines you will find additional information on all mandatory metadata that must be provided during the submission process.
Detailed guidelines for the formatting of contributions and a template in MS Word format (*.docx) can be found at the formatting guidelines.
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Articles in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
