Edditorial Office

Prilaz baruna Filipovića 28a

10 000 Zagreb

Croatia

Dear Reviewer,

We would greatly appreciate your opinion regarding its suitability for publication and any additional comments you are willing to make regarding the given manuscript. Whenever possible, criticism should be accompanied by a suggested revision.

Reviewer report:

Please classify the paper as: (check one)

(1) Original scientific paper,

(2) Preliminary short communication,

(3) A note to the Editor,

(4) Review,

(5) Conference paper,

(6) Professional paper.

Please give a frank account of the strengths and weaknesses of the article:

- Is the subject addressed in this article relevant to this journal?

- Is the subject addressed in this article worthy of investigation?
- Is the presented information new, and is the work original and novel?
- Does the work contribute significantly to the advancement of the research area?

- Does the work follow appropriate ethical guidelines?

- Does the author(s) use standard nomenclature, is the SI system of units used consequently?

- Is the Abstract clear and precise, does it state the major findings and conclusion of the

manuscript?

- Are the Illustrations accompanied by captions, and are they drawn and lettered adequately?

- Are the Results clearly presented?

- Are the conclusions supported by the data?
- Does the work correctly references previous relevant work?

- Are the references cited according to the “Instructions to Authors”?

- Is there a financial or other conflict of interest between your work and that of the authors?

Typically the manuscript should be reviewed within 2 months by two reviewers. Reviewers are not expected to correct or copyedit manuscripts because language correction is not part of the peer review process.

Should the reviewers' reports contradict one another or a report is unnecessarily delayed a further expert opinion may be sought. Revised manuscripts may be returned to the initial referees. The Editors may request more than one revision of a manuscript. A final decision to accept or reject the manuscript will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the reviewers, and may include comments by the reviewers and Editor.

Dear Reviewer,

Please return the manuscript with your comments within three weeks.

AUTHOR(S):

TITLE:

In my opinion this manuscript should be published:

- Without revision

- With minor revision

- With major revision

- Should not be published

Please give a frank account of the strengths and weaknesses of the article (please use the questions listed in the Reviewer report);

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