Instructions to authors

Acceptance Requirements and Manuscript Preparation Guide for Journal of Applied Research in Plant Protection

(J Appl Res Plant Prot)

 

***   A template word file (containing detailed information on manuscript format) can be downloaded here ***

 General Acceptance Requirements

• The content of the article should be consistent with aims and scope of JARPP, which can be found under the section “aims and scope” on the website of journal (https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/journal/authors.note).
• JARPP considers full research articles, short articles and short scientific reports for publication. Review articles are solicited by personal invitation of editor in chief to the authors.
• Submitted work should present the results of an original research conducted by the author(s).
• The content of the submitted manuscript should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language (partially or in full) or should not be under consideration for publication in any other journal.

 

Manuscript submission

• The manuscript should be submitted online at: http://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir through the publication system of the University of Tabriz.
• The authors should submit four separate files 1-the manuscript main text as blinded file (without the authors’ names and affiliations) in Word, 2- the manuscript main text as blinded file (without the authors’ names and affiliations) in pdf format, 3-Title page, including the name and surname of the author(s), academic rank, ORCID ID (if available), affiliation, along with their phone number (if possible mobile phone), and the e-mail address of the corresponding author), and 4- the declaration form (signed by all of the authors). https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/author?_action=submit&lang=en 

 

 

Manuscript preparation

• Paper setup must be in A4 size, single column, line spacing of 1.5 cm and a margin of 3 cm, with five indented letters at the beginning of the paragraphs written in Microsoft word (doc/docx). Use 14-point Bold Times New Roman font for the title, and 12-point Times New Roman font for text. The main headings in the text should be written in 12-point Times New Roman Bold and subheadings (first- and second-level) 12-point Times New Roman Italics.

 

• The body of the manuscript includes the Title, Abstract, Keywords, and the main text of the manuscript (including Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References). The results and discussion can be presented in one section if necessary. In the original research manuscripts, each heading in the text can also have one or two subheadings (first- and second-level). The subheadings should be written in italics. The first subheading is placed on a separate line from the text, while the text related to the second subheading follows it and is separated by colon. Figures and tables should be embedded in the text of the article and after the relevant explanations. Large-size figures can be submitted separately. The figures should be presented in one of the following formats: JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), and GIF (.gif). The minimum resolution of the images should be 300 DPI.

 

• Manuscripts that do not meet the requirements of original research manuscripts in terms of quantity or quality can be submitted as a short article. The structure of a short article is similar to the structure of the research article without first- and second subheadings. The short communication is organized in a maximum of five to six pages and includes a maximum of two figures, or two tables, or one figure and one table.
• Case findings can be submitted in the form of a short scientific report. The short scientific report is organized in a maximum of two pages (including a maximum of one figure or one table) and with a maximum of five references.

 

• The title of the article should be concise and comprehensive and should be set in a maximum of 20 words. Use of scientific names of organisms is preferred to generic names in the title. Do not use abbreviations and chemical formulas in the title. Also, it is not recommended to use words like "study" and "evaluation" at the beginning of the title.

 

• Abstract should be prepared in one paragraph including the importance of the research, objectives, methods, results, and conclusion. The abstract should be a total of about 250 words maximum.  At the end of the abstract, insert five keywords that are not used in the title.

 

• Scientific names (genus and species) in the text of the manuscript, Persian and English abstracts, keywords, and references should be written in italic. Do not include authors of scientific names in the title and abstract. Give full scientific name and authority at first mention of each organism in the main text.
• Numbers (weights and values) should be written in letters at the beginning of the sentence. Single-digit values must be written in letters anyway. Use the metric system for weights and values.

 

• Tables should be editable tables in a Word document. All tables need to be cited in the main text. Please ensure tables meets the following items:
  • All tables must have self-explanatory captions.
  • The caption should be written at the top of the table. Use 11-point Times New Roman font for the table caption. The table contents should be written in 9-10-point Times New Roman font. Use 10-point Bold font for headings of columns.
  • Full scientific names should be presented at first mention in the title of the table and figure, and if repeated, the genus name is abbreviated to its first letter (capital letter) and a dot. All contents of tables and figures must be in English. The tables are numbered sequentially and are written as "Table 1. title of the table".
  • The number of decimal places should be written according to the number of meaningful digits of the measured quantity. For averages, the mean error limits should be given by mentioning the standard error values (mean ± SE).
  • Information required for statistical tests includes the amount of test statistic, the degree or degrees of freedom, and the probability of type 1 error (P-value).
  • The P-value is written with three decimal places. Write < 0.001 for cases smaller than 0.001.
  • Abbreviations and symbols in the table should be explained as table footnotes.
  • Do not use horizontal and vertical lines in the table. Use only the horizontal lines separating the top and bottom of the table and the column headings.
  • The results should be presented in only one of the forms of the text, or table, and the contents of the table should not be repeated in the text.
  • The size of the tables should be adjusted to fit on a publication page (longitudinal or transverse).
  • All types of diagrams, curves, shapes, images, and drawings are referred to by the term figure and must be cited in the text. Figures or drawings must be original (provided by the author), and should not be taken from other sources. All figures must have self-explanatory captions written below the figure. Use 11-point Times New Roman font for caption. Scientific names should be provided in full in the caption of the figure. The figures are numbered sequentially and are written as "Figure 1. Title of the figure". In-figure text (including captions, axes, etc.) should be written in 9-10-point Times New Roman font.
  • In the acknowledgment section (optional).

 

References and citation

In text:

Follow the below examples:

Crous (1998) investigated the species diversity of Mycosphaerella on woody hosts.

Gams & Crous (2000) introduced the new genus Phaeomoniella.

Iranipour et al. (2020) determined the economic threshold of leafminer  Liriomyza sativae on cucumbers.

The phylogeny of species of the genus Botryosphaeria has been studied by various researchers (Pavlic et al. 2009a, b; Phillips et al. 2013; Slippers et al. 2014, 2017).

 

References list:

Journal Articles:

• Non English references

Tanha Maafi Z, Omati F, Parvizi R, 2005. Endoparasitic nematodes and their population densities in potato fields of Tehran, Semnan and West Azarbaijan. Iranian Journal of Plant Pathology 41(3): 425–436 (in Persian with English abstract).

• References with up to five authors

Ahmed AA, Fath-Allah MM, 2012. Double infections with cucumber mosaic virus and plum pox virus (Sharka) in apricot trees. International Journal of Virology 8(1): 50–60.

Crous PW, Gams W, Stalpers JA, Robert V, Stegehuis G, 2004. MycoBank: an online initiative to launch mycology into the 21st century. Studies in Mycology 50:19–22.

• References with more than five authors

Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Kolecka A, van Haren L, Boekhout T, et al., 2015a. Elucidating the Ramularia eucalypti species complex. Persoonia 34: 50–64.

Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Verkley GJM, Braun U, Crous PW, 2015b. The rise of Ramularia from the Mycosphaerella labyrinth. Fungal Biology 119: 823–843.

Books

Agrios GN, 2005. Plant Pathology. 5^th edition, Academic Press. 922 pp.

Alexopoulos CJ, Mims CW, Blackwell M, 1996. Introductory Mycology. 4^th edition, Wiley, USA. 868 pp.

Book chapter

White TJ, Bruns T, Taylor J, 1990. Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylognetics. In: Innis MA, Gelfand DH, Sninsky JJ, White JW (eds). A Guide to Molecular Methods and Applications. Academic Press, New York. Pp. 223-292.

Articles published in conferences

Hejazi MJ, Amizadeh A, Arzanlou M, 2014. Interaction between bacterial pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis and certain insecticides for management of Tuta absoluta. X^th European Congress of Entomology, August 3–8, London, United Kingdom. P. 18.

Online documents

Noyes JS, 2011. Universal Chalcidoidea database - World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/ chalcidoids.html. [Accessed on 23 March 2020].

Dissertation

Arzanlou M, 2008. Phylogeny, detection and mating behavior of Mycosphaerella spp. occurring on banana. PhD thesis, Plant Pathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Patent

Titcomb ST, Tuers AA, 1976. Reduced calorie bread and method of making same. USA Patent 3 979 323. Date issued: 7 September.

 

Publication Fee

The Applied Research in Plant Protection is an open access journal and the publication fee is one million and five hundred thousand Rials (4.000.000) for the research manuscripts and seven hundred and fifty thousand Rials (2,000,000) for the short communications. Publishing a scientific report is free of charge. The payment method and account number are as follows:

 

• Deposit to account number 8606912162 and ID number 110498021195 (ID number is required when depositing money in the bank), Bank Mellat, in the name of special income of the Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz. Bank receipt should be submitted along with the article files through the publication system.
• Online payment is possible through the online payment system of the University of Tabriz at https://portal.tabrizu.ac.ir/payment in the unit section of the faculty (Central Library - name of the journal).

 

 

© Copyright & licensing

 

The journal “Journal of Applied Research in Plant Protection (JARPP) applies the CC BY-NC open access license for the published articles in this journal. This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that JACSP content can be mined without barriers for the needs of research. Under this Open Access license the published manuscripts are freely available without any charge to the user or his/her employer or institution. Users are allowed to read, search, download, distribute, copy, print, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source.  Full-text access to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website in the journal Archives section (https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/?lang=en).    

 

Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, or thesis), it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and its publication has been approved by all coauthors (if any).

 

Publication ethics

 Nowadays the number of scholarly journals has grown more than ever; hence, the issue of Ethical standards for publication has gained significant attention in order to guarantee high-quality scientific publications, public reliance in scientific findings, and to guaranty appropriate credits for the work and idea’s of scientists.  

In this regards the following issues should be avoided:

• Plagiarism:   This journal checks the originality of the work and the similarity of the contexts of manuscript with other published works (plagiarism) using the Cross check database such as Ithenticate and some Persian plagiarism detection tools.
• Multiple submission
• Redundant publication
• Fabrication and falsification

    

“Declarations”

I am ……… corresponding author of the manuscript entitled “……………………………………..” I declare:

A) I have prepared the manuscript according to instruction for the authors of JAPP.

C) I have not submitted the above mentioned manuscript to another journal for publication.

D) I will not submit the manuscript to another journal until the status of the manuscript in this journal is clarified.

E) I have properly acknowledged the funding agencies and other organizations which have financially supported this work.  

Signature and the confirmation date

Manuscript co-authors:

We have reviewed and approved the above mentioned manuscript. I agree with submitting the manuscript to the Journal of Applied Research in Plant Protection.

First author           Name                               E-mail:                                                    Signature and the confirmation date

 

Second author       Name                               E-mail:                                                    Signature and the confirmation date

 

Third author         Name                               E-mail:                                                    Signature and the confirmation date