Authors can use this list to carry out a final check of their submission before they send it to the journal for review:

• Cover letter
• Title page, including Full title, Running head, Author names and affiliations, and Corresponding Author information
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Main text
• Acknowledgments
• Funding
• Authors’ contributions
• ORCID ID
• Conflict of interest
• Informed Consent of Patients (if any)
• Ethics approval
• References
• Figure legends (figures must be supplied as a separate file, with the figure number incorporated in the file name: e.g., Figure 1.jpg)
• Tables (including table legends).