Submissions

Author Guidelines

There are no words limit or length restrictions of the manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Agriculture Sustainability and Environment. The manuscripts submitted to this journal should neither be published before nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. All the manuscripts should be submitted online though the journal online submission system.

\The submission must have the following two files;

1. Title page (Include the study title, authors names in order and indication of corresponding author, email address of all authors, affiliations of all authors, full address of institute and country name). Academic titles such as Dr. Professor, Principal etc are not allowed and only real names should be used
2. Blinded manuscript (this file must be without author details and the file must have the study title, abstract of no more than 300 words, three to six keywords, Introduction, Literature review, Methodology, Results and discussions and conclusions. All the cited references should be attached at the end of the manuscript). If you have any further issue regarding your submission, please write and email to us via journals.gsr@gmail.com
3. Cover Letter: Authors can prepare a separate file named cover letter. It must contain these statements: 1. The manuscript is not currently under consideration or has not been published in another journal. 2. Acknowledgement, 3. Funding statement, 4. Statement of conflict of interests, 5. Authors contribution 6. Data availability statement
4. Suggested Reviewers: A separate word file should be added which includes three suggested reviewers, their emails and affiliations.

The templates can be downloaded from here;

Template manuscript

Template Title page

1. Manuscript Preparation Summary 

• Article type: Research article, Review articles, and, Case Studies.
• Article Length: There is no limit on the article length
• Acceptable file format: All manuscripts must be prepared in MS word. The authors may download already published paper from our journal to know more about the structure of our journal
• Font: Time new roman 11 font size, 1.15 line spacing
• Title page: Title, Author names in order, Affiliations with full address and country name.
• Manuscript: Abstract, Keywords, 1. Introduction, 2. Literature review, 3. Methodology, 4. Results and Discussion, 5. Conclusions, Funding, Acknowledgement, conflict of interest, References,  and Appendix (if any). 
• Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 300 words. It should provide a brief overview of the article. 
• Keywords: Three to six keywords need to be added after the abstract.
• Tables and Figures: All tables and figures must be in the main text after the paragraph of its first citation.
• Reference: For references, authors need to follow standard format [APA]. The citation should be authors names and all the cited references should be attached as a list at the end of the manuscript after conclusion. Authors may use endnote and get references directly from Google scholar.
• Cover Letter (Optional): Authors can prepare a separate file named cover letter. It must contain the statement: “The manuscript is not currently under consideration or has not been published in another journal.” 

2.Article Types

• Research Articles: research manuscripts that report new evidence or new conclusions. All original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information.
• Reviews: Review articles are intended to be topical, comprehensive summaries of the state-of-the-art in a particular aspect of Science. Review articles must be substantial, authoritative, and critical reviews of published results of high current interest on recent active topics (with key developments). The reviews should have a high potential for a broad impact. A critical assessment and analysis of the literature should be included, rather than a simple collation of published information. The review should provide a balanced look at the field, and the work of the authors should not be overemphasized. Possible future developments, insights about remaining challenges, and future directions should also be presented and discussed.
• Case Studies:  For field-research cases, permissions are required from the organization, and all persons interviewed/involved.

3.Title Page 

These sections should appear in all manuscript types

• Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific, and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis, or replication study.
• Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided in order. Affiliation and institutions name, full address  including country name and email address should be provided. One corresponding authors should be indicated.
• Funding: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate the name of the funding authority and the grant number of the fund that you have received in support of your research work.
• Acknowledgments: You can acknowledge any individual or institutional support that you have received during the course of your research.
• Conflict of interest: The authors should declare a conflict of interest.
• Availability of Data: Authors must give statement of the data availability

4. Structure of the Manuscript

• The manuscripts have to be typed in double space with Arial font of size 11, line spacing 1.15and all margins should be ≥ 2.5 cm. Consecutive line numbering needs to be given throughout the manuscript.

  4.1     Introductory material

  The second page of the manuscript after the cover letter should contain the following items in the order given below:

  • Title of the paper that clearly defines the area of research;
  • Names of all authors with the given name following surname in full for every author and their affiliations including complete postal addresses and email address of the corresponding author;
  • 4–6 keywords (in alphabetical order), which reflect the key area of research (do not repeat words in the title);
  • if the paper is based on a presentation on a meeting or similar, a footnote must be given with the date (name of the month spelled out), place, and title of the meeting;
  • a footnote must also be given if the contribution is based on another publication.

  4.2     Abstract

  For Research Articles, the third page of the manuscript should start with the abstract not exceeding 300 words, and clearly explain the research background, aims, methodology, results and conclusion. For Review Articles, Game Changers and Viewpoints abstracts may vary, but should not exceed 350 words. Although, for Short Communications, an abstract is limited to 500 words including spaces. Moreover, authors are appreciated to also submit a graphical abstract, consisting of a figure or file identified to highlight your article. The graphical abstract will be posted on social media to enhance the readership.

  4.4 Original articles

  The body of the article should contain the following sections: introduction; methods; results; discussion; conclusions.

  Introduction: This section should state the relevance and background to the study, and its rationale and purpose.

  Material and Methods: This section should contain all the information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was being written. You should describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants, identify the methods, apparatus and procedures in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results, and describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable acknowledgeable readers with access to the original data to verify the reported results.

  Results: Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and figures. Where a new parameter is reported, the results should include proper heading as appropriate.

  Discussion: This should include inferences/consequences of the findings and their limitations/justifications, with reference to all other relevant studies conducted previously or ongoing published results and the possibilities these suggestions for future research.

  Conclusions: This must summarize the main paper. Ensure that extrapolations are reasonable and that conclusions are justified by the data presented, and indicate if the study design can be generalized to a broader study population.

  Review article

  It should be structured as follows: context, objective, methods (including data sources, study selection and data extraction), results and conclusion.

  Conflict of Interest

  The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

  Author Contributions
  Please, insert author contributions according with Redit (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). RediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to research outputs. More about Redit can be found at https://credit.niso.org/
  Example of author contributions:

  Conceptualization, G.E.D., S.E.G. and T.E.C.; methodology, G.E.D.; software, S.E.G.; formal analysis, G.E.D. and S.E.G.; writing—original draft preparation, G.E.D. and S.E.G.; writing—review and editing, T.E.C. and S.E.G. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
   Appendices - If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

  Acknowledgments - Collate acknowledgments in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.).

  
  Footnotes and abbreviations - Footnotes should be avoided. Abbreviations should also be avoided, except from exceptionally usual. If used, footnotes should only contain additional text (comment), and not information about sources used. The abbreviations stated in tables and pictures should be explained.

  5. Preparing Figures, Schemes, and Tables
• Figures and schemes in common formats are accepted, however, MS Word, TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PDF are preferred.
• All Figures, Schemes, and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearances (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, ).
• All Figures, Schemes, and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
• The authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables. In tables, avoid vertical lines. Please see the sample below:

1. References

The authors must cite the relevant literature both in the text and attached references. The authors must cite the relevant literature both in the text and references. For example, Khan, H., Khan, I., & Binh, T. T. (2020). The heterogeneity of renewable energy consumption, carbon emission and financial development in the globe: a panel quantile regression approach. Energy Reports, 6, 859-867.

1. Publication Ethics Statement

The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The editors of the this journal take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and maintain a zero-tolerance policy. Plagiarism is strictly not acceptable in this journal that’s includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving any credit to the original source. Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes and the original source must be cited. If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language has been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.

If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may publish a correction or retract the paper.