Anonymous peer review

To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer review of submissions to this journal, every effort will be made to ensure that authors and reviewers are not known to each other. To this end, authors, editors and reviewers (who upload documents as part of the submission and/or review process) should check that the following steps have been taken with regard to text and file properties:

• The authors of the document have removed their names from the text, and have used "Author" and the year in references and footnotes instead of the author's name, the title of the article, etc. This means that their identity cannot be deduced from references to their other work, acknowledgements or other information.

• The authors of the document have removed personal information from the file properties by following these steps:

  • Microsoft Word for Windows:

    • Go to "File"

    • Select "Information"

    • Click on "Check for problems"

    • Click on "Inspect document"

    • In the "Inspect Document" dialogue box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content you want to inspect

    • Click on "Remove all"

    • Click on "Close"

    • Save the document

  • Microsoft Word for MacOS:

    • Go to "Tools"

    • Click on "Protect Document"

    • Select "Remove personal information from file when saving"

    • Click OK and save the file

  • PDF:

    • Go to "File"

    • Select "Properties"

    • Remove any names from the "Author" field

    • Click OK

    • Save the document