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Confidentiality & Anonymity

Our review process is strictly confidential and should be treated as such by all individuals involved in the submission and review process. As the author may have chosen to exclude some people from this process, no one who is not directly involved with the manuscript (including colleagues and other experts in the field) should be consulted by the reviewer unless such consultations have first been discussed with the Editor. Reviewers must not take any confidential information they have gained in the review process and use it before the paper is published.

We will not release your identity to authors unless you ask to be identified. The names of the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor are published with accepted papers, but you will remain anonymous.