HSSC submission package — final quality-assurance report
Date: 2026-09-02

DELIVERABLES CHECKED
- 01_HSSC_Anonymous_Manuscript.docx
- 02_HSSC_Title_Page.docx
- 03_HSSC_Cover_Letter.docx
- Figures/Figure_1.png through Figure_6.png

CONTENT AND FORMAT
- Article title: 127 characters (within the journal's 150-character guidance).
- Abstract: 286 words (within the 300-word limit).
- Main text: approximately 6,230 words, excluding the abstract, declarations, references, figure legends and tables.
- Tables: 2 editable Word tables; exact width/indent geometry is internally consistent.
- Figures: 6 separate PNG files, all approximately 300 dpi and each below 1 MB.
- References: 59; alphabetical; all detected author-year citation labels match the reference list, with no uncited entries detected.
- Figure and table call-outs: Figures 1–6 and Tables 1–2 are each cited and captioned.
- Language: revised to UK English.
- Equations: 14 native Office Math objects retained.

ANONYMITY AND FILE HYGIENE
- No author names, email addresses, affiliation or grant number detected in the anonymous manuscript.
- No images remain embedded in the anonymous manuscript; figure legends are retained at the end.
- No tracked insertions/deletions, comments, content controls or Word fields detected.
- No custom document properties detected. Creator fields are empty/absent.

VISUAL RENDERING
- Anonymous manuscript rendered successfully to 19 A4 pages.
- Title page rendered successfully to 1 A4 page.
- Cover letter rendered successfully to 2 US-Letter pages.
- Final visual inspection found no clipped text, table overflow, broken equations, heading collisions or mid-sentence page break in the cover letter.

ACCESSIBILITY
- High-severity findings: 0.
- Medium-severity findings: 0.
- Low-severity findings: 55, all caused by DOI/URL text displayed as raw links in the reference list; these are conventional bibliographic links and were retained.

INTENTIONAL AUTHOR-CHECK BLOCKS
- Anonymous manuscript: 5 highlighted blocks covering data-version provenance, code availability, author contributions and author approval of the AI-use disclosure/Figure 2 route.
- Cover letter: 2 highlighted blocks covering funding verification and the manuscript's prior/concurrent-submission status.
- These blocks are safety controls, not publication-ready prose. They must be replaced or removed after factual confirmation and before upload.

ADDITIONAL COMPLIANCE CHECKS
- The cover letter explicitly records the full author name order and identifies both corresponding authors.
- Map captions credit Natural Earth country-boundary linework and SRTM topographic context; authors must confirm that these statements match the actual map-production workflow.
- Figure 4 caption defines XSBN as Xishuangbanna.
- The title page contains author identities and must be assigned only to a non-reviewer-visible file category in the submission system.

FINAL STATUS
- Technically prepared and visually verified as a pre-submission package.
- Not cleared for direct upload until every highlighted AUTHOR CHECK is resolved and the four-author change is approved by all affected contributors.
