Author's Checklist for original manuscript

Title of the manuscript:

The following list will be useful during the final checking of an manuscript prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.

Please check below items as √ mark before submission of the manuscript.

1. Instructions to Authors

□ I/We read the requirements for manuscript submission and the guidelines for manuscript preparation. This manuscript was written according to the guidelines.

□ The authors’ institutions and the funding body supporting this research have agreed to allow this manuscript to be published.

□ This manuscript has not been published previously in any other journal. Currently, it is not submitted to another journal for publication.

□ The Copyright Transfer Agreement Form has been signed.

□ One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details, e.g., e-mail address(s), full postal address(s), phone number(s).

2. Manuscript Format

□ The manuscript is properly prepared with the main sections labeled (e.g., Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledg- ments, and References).

□ The pages are numbered consecutively beginning with the title page.

□ The lines are numbered consecutively beginning with the first line of the title page.

□ References are in the correct format for this journal.

□ All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.

□ All tables and figures are numbered consecutively in the order of their initial citation in the text.

□ Manuscript has been spell-checked and grammar-checked in both Korean and English.

□ Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)