Submission Checklist

Manuscript is written and submitted on the JEI Manuscript Template

Manuscript includes:

• Title Page
• Summary (Abstract)
• Introduction
• Results
• Discussion
• Materials and Methods
• References
• Figures, Tables, and Captions

The research tests a clearly stated hypothesis and includes experiments conducted by the authors that test the hypothesis. If the project involves an invention, the authors have used it to test a hypothesis about a specific scientific question with a rigorously designed experiment.

The manuscript includes references cited throughout the manuscript and listed in the References section of the manuscript in MLA format.

The manuscript does not exceed a maximum of 10 pages (counting from the beginning of the introduction to the end of the materials/methods), and is in .doc or .docx format.

There is a maximum of 8 figures + tables. They should appear after the references above their respective captions. Figures are submitted both embedded in the manuscript Word document above their respective figure captions and as separate image files in Editorial Manager (image only - no caption or titles). Tables are embedded in the Word file above their caption and are editable (i.e., not image files).

All uncited data included in this manuscript is the authors’ original work. All individuals who helped conduct this research are listed as authors, and any data that is not the original work of the authors has been cited.

All images included on the manuscript are non-copyrighted or the authors’ original work.

The senior author has reviewed this submission. If the research conducted in a laboratory, the institutional email address (i.e. “@institute.edu” or “.gov”) of the laboratory’s principal investigator is included.

If the research involved human subjects or vertebrate animals, appropriate forms are also submitted.

The authors have read JEI's COVID-19 manuscript policy and the manuscript does not fall under JEI's COVID-19-related manuscript restrictions