Important Notice

Authors and contributors are hereby informed that the Author Guidelines have been updated to incorporate a mandatory funding statement in all manuscripts.

To ensure transparency regarding the sources of financial support for research, all articles included in the January 2027 issue must be published with their corresponding funding statement.

Therefore, manuscripts currently undergoing the editorial process and scheduled for publication in that issue must include this statement before publication.

When the research has received financial support, the funding institution or organization must be identified and, where applicable, the project name or code and the associated grant, contract, or funding number must also be provided. When the research has received no external funding, this must be explicitly stated.

This requirement has already been incorporated into the Author Guidelines and will be mandatory for all articles published beginning with the January 2027 issue.

We appreciate the cooperation of authors, reviewers, and editors in implementing this new editorial requirement.