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You
are welcome to submit a technical paper for publication in any issue
of this journal on a subject of your expertise and experience in
research and development in the broad field of agriculture.
Prepare
4 copies of the manuscript on 21.6 cm by 27.9-cm (8 1/2- by 11-inch)
bond paper. Number
pages consecutively, including tables and captions for figures.
The
manuscript should be printed double-space in 12-point type,
preferably in Times New Roman font, including text, quotations,
table titles, captions, and footnotes.
The manuscript should consist of Title Page, Abstract,
Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion,
References Cited, List of Tables and Figures, Tables and Figures
(details below). Margins should be at least 4.0 cm from the left and
2.5 cm from the top, bottom and right-hand sides of each page.
Each page must also have line numbers. The customary
paragraph indentation is 5 spaces.
Submit four (4) complete copies of the manuscript to the
Editor-in-Chief together with a certification from a language editor
that the manuscript has been edited. Submit also a diskette copy of
the manuscript.
Articles
must be the results of recently conducted research. They must neither be previously nor simultaneously submitted
in any journal nor published elsewhere except in a preliminary form.
The article should state when and where the study was
conducted. Each article
should not be more than 30 pages, including tables and figures.
Longer articles may be published at the author’s expense. Articles
must contribute significantly to the advancement of knowledge or
toward better understanding of scientific concepts in tropical
agriculture and related fields.
A
2- to 4-page paper with an abstract and a maximum of 3 tables and/or
figures and 10 references can be submitted as a research note to
report on new disease or insect infestations, potential of a
technology or crop, introduction or propagation of a crop or animal
breed, routinary test such as fertilizer, technology, feed, variety,
hybrids or cropping schemes. Papers on novel and important findings
warranting immediate publication but which can not be justified as
full-length articles can be published as research notes.
Review
papers and professorial chair lectures should be up-to-date accounts
of current advances in an important area of research.
Review papers and professorial chair lectures should have
strong technical bases. They
should survey and discuss recent developments in a field, cite local
studies, and interpret the scientific information given.
Authors of these papers should have published at least 2
articles on the subject in a refereed journal or should be
recognized authorities in their field of specialization.
Please
submit a previously scanned and virus-free computer disk (3.5"
HD disk) containing the version of the paper together with the final
manuscript that has been accepted for publication by the referees.
Submit a hard copy of the manuscript that exactly matches the
disk file. Documents should preferably be in Word 98 format. Otherwise, specify the computer and the type of software that
has been used and keep a back-up copy of the disk.
Page
proofs are given to authors after the manuscripts have been
camera-ready prepared. The
editors take no responsibility for inaccuracy on the part of the
author. Except for
printer and editorial errors, all substantial changes in proofs will
be charged to authors.
Style
The
journal follows the Scientific Style and Format: The Council
of Biology Editors (CBE) Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers
(1994), 6th ed., Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, MA.
For
literature citations in the text and for the References Cited, the
journal uses the style for the name-year system. For multiple
authors cited in the text, the citation used is “(Yee et al.
1999)” instead of “(Yee and others 1999)”.
Refer to separate section on References Cited for
additional information.
State
both the accepted common name and the chemical name of pesticides
when first mentioned in the abstract or text.
Similarly, state the Latin binomial or trinomial and
authority at the first mention of the organism (plants, animals, and
microorganisms) in the abstract or main text. Cultivars should be
enclosed by ‘ ’
(single quotes). Verify
nomenclature from a reliable source.
Offprints
Ten
offprints of the journal will be supplied free of charge.
Offprints in lots of 50 and copies of the issue can be
ordered.
Measurements
Use
SI units in accordance with the recommendations of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) specified in the British
Standards Institution, London publication Specification for SI
Units and Recommendations for the Use of Their Multiples and
of Certain Other Units, BS 5555: 1993 ISO 1000:1992.
The author may choose to add corresponding non-metric units
in parentheses.
Use
exponents rather than a slash (/) or dot (.) in reporting units of
measure, for example, g d-1,
mg kg-1 h-1,
instead of g/day or
mg.kg-1,
h-1.
When units of measure are not involved, use words such as
eggs per mass, suckers per plant, not eggs mass-1
or suckers/plant.
Spell
out the number or reword the sentence such that the numeral does not
appear at the start of the sentence.
Use decimals instead of fractions in the text, tables and
illustrations. Ordinal
numbers are treated in the same way as cardinal numbers, for
example, 2nd, 23rd,
157th. Percentages are
written as numerals followed by the per cent sign (%) with no space
between them.
Trade
Names and Chemical Names
Use
trade names sparingly and only in the Materials and Methods.
Include the symbol ® where appropriate. Use the generic or
common name in the text with the full chemical name in parentheses
at first mention.
Statistics
All
statistical procedures, including methods of analysis, should be
identified. Numbers of replicates and subsamples, transformations,
and statistical tests should be stated.
Tables of analysis of variance should not be reported when
using classical designs. Present the results of analyses in the
appropriate tables or figures.
The
use of Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) to compare means is
discouraged. Data not
subjected to analysis of variance or other tests of significance
must at least present the standard error of the mean or standard
deviation.
Sequence
of Contents in the Manuscript
TITLE
PAGE - The title should be printed in capital letters and must
accurately identify and describe the contents of the manuscript. To facilitate processing of papers while protecting anonymity
in the peer review, authors should identify themselves only in the
title page that should precede the article.
Honorary authors are not allowed.
A person who has nothing to do with the analysis of data and
writing of the paper and who cannot assume responsibility for the
technical content of the paper cannot be considered an author.
Include each author’s complete mailing address and/or
institutional affiliation in the title page.
Indicate the author to whom correspondence should be
addressed and the author’s e-mail address.
Indicate whether the research is the portion of a thesis or
dissertation and the sources of fund of the research.
For
the running title, include a shortened version of the title of the
article, not more than 40 letters in length, on the upper left-hand
corner of each page.
ABSTRACT
– After the title page, print a 150-200 word informative digest of
the objectives, methodology and significant findings of the article.
The title should also be printed in capital letters before the
Abstract.
Include
also a 200-word layman’s language summary of the findings and
their significance. This
summary will be incorporated in the Article Digest section. It should be understandable to an interested reader here and
abroad. New techniques or unfamiliar methods should be explained and
if terms cannot be defined, they should be explained.
KEY
WORDS - The key words and phrases following the Abstract should
be alphabetically arranged and should reflect the contents of the
paper. Give not more
than eight key words.
ABBREVIATIONS - For
easy reference, an alphabetically arranged sequence of abbreviations
and acronyms and their meanings are printed after the key words. Avoid abbreviations in the title and abstract, although they
may be used in graphs, tables, figures and legends. Acronyms are to be spelled out first and then enclosed in
parenthesis at first mention. Avoid using acronyms and abbreviations
as the first word of a sentence or a heading.
Rewrite the sentence or spell out the term.
Use abbreviations only for terms used at least three times.
TEXT
- The text, which comes after the Abbreviations, is presented in the
sequence listed as follows: INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS,
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGMENT and REFERENCES CITED.
Separate
Results, Discussion and Conclusion sections can be used
when the article warrants it.
Abbreviations
and Acronyms that do not need to be spelled out:
ANOVA
- analysis of variance
cv.
- cultivar
diam.
- diameter
DMRT
- Duncan’s Multiple Range Test
Fig.
- Figure
HSD
- honest significant difference
LSD
- least significant difference
no.
- number
r
- correlation coefficient of linear determination
r2
- correlation coefficient of simple determination
R2
- correlation coefficient of multiple determination
SD
- standard deviation
SE
- standard error of sample mean
vs.
- versus
wt.
- weight
References
Cited
It is the
author’s responsibility to check that all references in the text
appear at the end of the paper and vice versa, and that the names
and dates are consistent.
Mimeographed
publications and terminal and annual reports are not acceptable as
reference citations. Authors can cite published data and manuscripts
as unpublished data or personal communication but these will not be
included in the References Cited.
Cite only
published articles. References
cited in the text use the style of the name-year system.
They are listed alphabetically at the end of the paper.
Examples of entries in the References Cited section are as follows:
Journal
Articles
MATTHEWS RE. 1982. Classification and
nomenclature of viruses. Intervirology 17:1-199.
Book
HAFEZ ES. 1993. Reproduction in Farm
Animals. 6th ed.
Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger. 733 p.
Portion of Book
SCHUBERT S. 1995. Proton release by roots.
In: Singh BB, Mengel K, editors. Physiology and Biochemistry of
Plants. New Delhi: Panama Publishing Corp. p. 97-119.
Theses and Dissertations
ILAGAN YA. 1996. Analysis of Genetic
Variation in Strains of Pseudomonas solanacearum E.F. Smith.
[PhD dissertation]. College, Laguna, Philippines: University of the
Philippines Los Baños. 212 p. (Available at the UPLB Library)
Paper from a Proceedings
PANTASTICO EB, MENDOZA DB. 1988. Climatic
constraints to rice production in the Philippines. In: Cardenas A,
editor. Climate and Rice Production. Proceedings of a Symposium on
the Agrometeorology of the Rice Crop at the 27th
meeting of the World Meteorological Organization; 1987 April 8-14;
Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines: International Rice Research
Institute. p. 107-119.
Organization as Author
[AOAC] Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists. 1975. Official Methods of Analysis, 12th
ed. Washington, DC: Association of Official Agricultural Chemists,
Inc. 1042 p.
Electronic References
To direct the reader to the entire website,
not to a specific document in the site, it is enough to give the
address of the website:
http://www.bspp.org.uk
Citation for a web document follows a format
similar to that for prints with additional information:
Retrieved January 11, 2001 (date of retrieval) from the World
Wide Web: http://www.bspp.org.uk
If no publication date is available for a
document, state n.d. (stands for “no date”) in its place.
For information retrieved from CD-ROM
databases, use the same format as that of a print:
Retrieved from [Source] database (name of
database), CD-ROM (release date), (item no. - if applicable)
Example:
Retrieved from Seed Abstracts (AGRICOLA), CD-ROM (5 May 1999)
For database accessed through the Web, the
retrieval statement is:
Retrieved (month, day, year), from (source)
database (name of database), (item no. - if applicable), or the
World Wide Web:
http://www.ebgco.com
Example:
Retrieved December 1999 from Biological Abstracts (AGRIS)
or http://www.plantphysiol.org
Tables,
Figures and Illustrations
Present
tables to fit the working area for the text of the journal, 16 cm x
22.5 cm. Tables should
conform to the journal’s page size and style.
Use only up to 3 footnotes in the tables.
As much as possible, place all necessary information in the
heading. Introduce a
table in the text before presenting it. Avoid using abbreviations in
the tables. If they
must be used in the tables, abbreviations should be spelled out in
the legends or footnotes. Tables should be able to stand alone, i. e., the reader need
not refer to the main body of the text to understand the contents of
a table.
Figures
and illustrations should conform to the page size and style of the
journal. Illustrations
should fit the working area for the text of the journal (16 x 22.5
cm) and must be prepared as camera-ready copy.
Identify all figures at the back with author’s name(s) and
figure number with soft pencil.
Submitted graphs must have been generated preferably using
the Excel program. They
must be given as Excel files in the diskette submitted.
Photographs
and illustrations should be original and clear. Indicate the top and bottom of each illustration. Line
drawings of maps, graphs and flow charts should be neatly drawn with
India ink on white paper or provided as clear sharp printouts.
Avoid extremely small type (use 10 points or bigger),
fine-grained stippling or faint shading, as there will be loss of
contrast and detail in printing.
Captions
and legends should be printed at the bottom of each illustration.
Microscopic illustrations should include magnification,
preferably a bar denoting scale of measure, for example, bar = 10
mm. Photocopies of photographs and figure drawings will not be
accepted.
Authors
are requested to submit extra color photographs with appropriate
captions that can be used as cover photographs.
Author
and Subject Index
The
fourth quarter issue of each volume of the journal publishes an
Author and Subject Index and the list of reviewers.
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