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Please follow this order when you create your manuscript: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Figure captions and then Tables.
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The following scheme for headings is suggested.
a) First heading: separate line, all caps, no ending punctuation;
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