Author Guidelines

Being peer reviewed, the journal “Agrica” publish original research articles, short communication, review articles, book reviews, letter to editor screened by national and international experts in their respective fields. The manuscript must be unpublished and should not have been submitted for publication elsewhere.

Regular Articles

All portions of the manuscript must be typed double-spaced and all pages numbered starting from the title page.

The Title (Times new roman 14) should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper. The Title Page should include the authors' full names and affiliations, the name of the corresponding author along with phone, fax and E-mail information. Present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote.

The ABSTRACT should be informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. The Abstract should be 100 to 200 words in length. Complete sentences, active verbs, and the third person should be used, and the abstract should be written in the past tense. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. No literature should be cited.

Following the abstract, about 3 to 10 key words that will provide indexing references should be listed.

A list of non-standard Abbreviations should be added. In general, non-standard abbreviations should be used only when the full term is very long and used often. Each abbreviation should be spelled out and introduced in parentheses the first time it is used in the text. Only recommended SI units should be used. Authors should use the solidus presentation (mg/ml). Standard abbreviations (such as ATP and DNA) need not be defined.

The INTRODUCTION should provide a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject, and the proposed approach or solution. It should be understandable to colleagues from a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Materials and Methods

Should be complete enough to allow experiments to be reproduced. However, only truly new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's name and address. Subheadings should be used. Methods in general use need not be described in detail.

Results

Should be presented with clarity and precision. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the authors' experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense. Results should be explained, but largely without referring to the literature. Discussion, speculation and detailed interpretation of data should not be included in the Results but should be put into the Discussion section.

The DISCUSSION should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic. State the conclusions in a few sentences at the end of the paper. The Results and Discussion sections can include subheadings, and when appropriate, both sections can be combined.

The ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of people, grants, funds, etc should be brief.

The authors declare that they have NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST about this manuscript and research

CONSENT TO PUBLISH should be mentioned in MS as YES

CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLICATION BY AUTHORS should be mentioned in MS as YES

Ethical Approval:

This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors

Tables

Should be kept to a minimum and be designed to be as simple as possible. Tables are to be typed double-spaced throughout, including headings and footnotes. Each table should be on a separate page, numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and supplied with a heading and a legend. Tables should be self-explanatory without reference to the text. The details of the methods used in the experiments should preferably be described in the legend instead of in the text. The same data should not be presented in both table and graph form or repeated in the text.

Figure Legends

Should be typed in numerical order on a separate sheet. Graphics should be prepared using applications capable of generating high resolution GIF, TIFF, JPEG or Power Point before pasting in the Microsoft Word manuscript file. Tables should be prepared in Microsoft Word. Use Arabic numerals to designate figures and upper case letters for their parts (Figure 1). Begin each legend with a title and include sufficient description so that the figure is understandable without reading the text of the manuscript. Information given in legends should not be repeated in the text.

References

In the text, a reference identified by means of an author's name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses. When there are more than two authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by ‘et al’. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like ‘a’ and ‘b’ after the date to distinguish the works.

Examples:

Abayomi (2000), Agindotan et al. (2003), (Kelebeni, 1983), (Usman and Smith, 1992), (Chege, 1998; Chukwura, 1987a,b; Tijani, 1993,1995), (Kumasi et al., 2001)

References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., A. K. Tiwari CCS University, personal communication). Journal names are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Examples:

Journal Citation:

Tiwari AK, Tripathi S, Lal M and Mishra S (2012) Screening of some chemical disinfectants media sterilization during invitro micropropogation of sugarcane. Sugar Tech 14: 364-369.

Book Chapter Citation

Tiwari AK and Rao GP (2014) Viruses Infecting Cucurbita pepo: Current Status and Management. R. N. Kharwar et al. (eds.), Microbial Diversity and Biotechnology in Food Security. © Springer India 2014 Pages 357-371.

Book Citation:

Tiwari AK, Lal M and Singh AK (2014) Current status of sugarcane research in India. Nova Publisher, USA. pp 1-89.

DOI Publication:

Khan MS, Tiwari AK, Ji SH and Chun SC (2014) First Report of a Croton yellow vein mosaic virus (CYVMV) Associated with Tomato Leaf Curl Disease in north India. Journal of Phytopathology DOI: 10.1111/jph.12319

Short Communication

The length of manuscripts should not exceed 2500 words.

Manuscript Submission

The MS must be submitted in ms-word file to Indianjournals.com. As an email attachment, the MS may be sent to agricainternational@gmail.com. After acceptance of the MS the authors must send a signed copyright form that will be provided with acceptance to corresponding author. Suggesting name and email id of three reviewers is required during submission. The author will ensure that suggested reviewers have no conflict of interest.