“…We also point out that the condition (f 1 ) in Theorem 6.1 was first introduced by Guo and Xu in [49], where they discussed the existence of periodic solutions to a class of second order neutral differential difference equations. Since then, many variants of the condition (f 1 ) have been frequently used in the study of nonlinear difference equations containing both advances and delays, see for example [28,62,71,85,95,107,117].…”