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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor), therefore upload also statement of originality
  • Make sure the References follow APA 7th style, with DOI or http where applicable
  • Please follow the the template of the manuscript as provided on the JAAB website
  • Make sure the manuscript is free of syntax and grammar errors. We encourage the author(s) to check the English of their manuscript to the Professional English Service
  • At Comments to Editors: Write 2 names, country, ORCID and or Scopus ID, and email of potential reviewers to speed up the review process.

Author Guidelines

AUTHOR GUIDELINE

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED BIOLOGY

 

  1. Editorial Policy

Similarity: Each manuscript will be checked for similarity and may not exceed the 25% limit.

The editor accepts articles that have not been submitted to other journals or proceedings.  We also accept articles that have appeared in preprint services (for example: arXiv, bioRxiv). The article has been approved by all authors with clear Authors contribution.

  1. General Rules for Text

Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word.

Research article should be maximum 15 pages (1- spaced), 20 pages (1.5-spaced), 25 pages (double-spaced). 

Body  text should be justified.  References align left. Please use the following rules for the entire text:

Font: Cambria; Size: 11 pt.

Paragraph Spacing: Above paragraph — 0 pt.; below paragraph — 4 pt.

Numbering all pages (center, top of the page).

Lines should be numbered continuously from the first to last page.

Heading 1:  Bold; for example, Materials and Methods

Heading 2:  Bold Italic; for example, Method of Experiment

Spelling: The JAAB uses American or British spelling and yet the uniformity within each paper is required.  Latin words or phrases are in italics, e.g. genus and species, except for very common expressions      such as “i.e.,” “e.g.,” “et al.,” “in vitro,” “ex vitro” and “etc.”

 

  1. MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE

 

Full Title, not more than 17 words

 

Name(s) of author(s)

Institutional Affiliation(s) of author(s)

E-mail address of the corresponding author

WA number of main author for correspondence

E-mail address of all authors

ORCID(s) of author(s)

 

Abstract

The abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 250 words.

Keywords: 3-7 keywords, must be the words that are not appear in full title.

 

Introduction

Background and aim of research not more than 1000 words. 

Materials and Methods

Materials and methods not more than 1500 words. This can be divided into subsections if several methods are described.   

Subsection

Subsection should describe completely the plant materials, the cultivation technique, methods  used, design of experiments.

 

Result and Discussion

Results and discussion not more than 3000 words. The Results and Discussion may be combined into a single section or presented separately. They may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings. 

 

Subsection

Discussion should explain logically the argument.

 

Conclusion

Conclusion not more than 250 words. 

Acknowledgement

Personal acknowledgements should precede those of institutions or funding agencies.

 

Conflict of interest

You should write "is there any conflict?"

 

Authors Contribution

You should write “what are authors contributions?”

 

References

Editorial team recommends to follow referencing software as reference manager, some are Zotero, Mendely, Endnote, etc. The citation and reference referred to APA 7th style (LINK).  Include DOI in the references so please go to PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) and CrossRef (link) (http://www.crossref.org/) to check your references.

 

Manuscripts must quote 75% of the past 10 years' journal. 

JAAB advocates a minimum of 15 references for Research Article and 50 references for Reviewed Article. 

  1. Example of References

Article in Journal with DOI

Triandriani W., Saputri D. D., Suhendar U. U., & Sogandi. (2020). Antioxidant activity of endophytic bacterial extract isolated from clove leaf (Syzygium aromaticum L.). Journal of Agriculture and Applied Biology, 1(1), 9–17. https://doi.org/10.11594/jaab.01.01.02

 

Article in Journal without DOI

Verma M. A., Kumar P. A., Kavitha D., & Anurag K. B.  (2011). Anti denaturation and antioxidant activities of annona cherimola in vitro.  International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 2(2):1-6.  https://ijpbs.net/details.php?article=692

 

Book:

deMan, J. M., Finley, J., Hurst, W. J., & Lee, C. (2018). Principles of food chemistry (4th ed.). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63607-8

Chapter in a book:

Wu, Y., Wang, L., & Patras, A. (2016). Safety, nutrition, and health aspects of organic food. In Nandwani, D. (Ed.), Organic farming for sustainable agriculture (Vol. 9, pp. 89-106). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26803-3

 

  1. Abbreviations and Units

Abbreviations should be follow SI symbols and those recommended by the IUPAC. Guide for SI units and measurements please read here (https://www.agronomy.org/files/publications/style/chapter-07.pdf).

 

  1. Tables, Figures and Equation

Preparing illustrations and figures

Figures and images should be labelled sequentially, numbered and cited in the text. Figures should be referred to specifically in the text of the paper but should be embedded within the text

Preparing tables

These should be should be numbered in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Table 1, 2, 3 etc.). Tables should also have a title that summarizes the whole table, maximum 15 words.

Equations

Equations should be write as a editable section.