Author Guidelines
Article Types & Format
IJANR publishes original, unpublished articles, including Research Articles, Research Notes, Essays, and Reviews in English. All articles are subject to a peer review process by a committee of at least two expert referees who are appointed by the Editorial Board.
1. Research Articles: A Research Article is an original article that contains results of laboratory, greenhouse or field investigations. All Research Articles must contribute new scientific or technological information to the manuscript’s subject matter.
The manuscript should include:
- A title, author name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Abstract (fewer than 250 words)
- Keywords (five)
- Highlights (five, with no more than 86 characters each)
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Funding Statement
- Data availability statement
- References
Manuscripts should contain all the information required to assess the state of the existing literature in the field, methodology, results, and discussion. In addition, the information contained must enable readers to assess whether the authors have discussed their results adequately about the existing literature and whether the results justify and support the conclusions of the study. The maximum length of Research Articles should be 6,000 words (including up to four Tables and/or four Figures).
2. Research Notes: Short scientific or technological article that describes the results or methodology. Content should be organized in a similar way to the organization of Research Articles. Content including preliminary reports such as pilot investigations with the absence of replication or other constraints. It also covers newly developed methodologies or modifications of existing ones, including descriptions of initial testing where applicable. Research Note must follow the format of a Research Paper, just condensed. The maximum length is 3,000 words (including up to two Tables and/or two Figures)
3. Essays: An Article in which authors develop and defend a thesis based on their opinions, in concordance with the existing literature and with relevant research that the authors have previously conducted. Therefore, authors of an essay should have previously published scientific articles. The maximum length is up to 12,000 words.
4. Reviews: a review article is a critical review of the scientific literature of a subject in which authors provide a synthesis of existing knowledge and discuss the research published on key points of the subject matter. A review should include the most important findings and theoretical considerations on a specific topic that have been published during the last ten years (around 90% of the references must be from the last 10 years) Be aware that reviews do not report new findings, and authors should previously published studies on the same topic. The maximum length is up to 12,000 words.
IJANR welcomes proposals for Special and Thematic Issues, a set of related articles addressing research related to agriculture and natural resources within the journal's scope. The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for the entire Thematic or Special Issue. If you want to propose a Special and Thematic Issue, please check the following requirements. Please be aware that the availability for accommodating new issues is extremely limited.
Manuscript format
When preparing your manuscript, please make sure that you strictly adhere to the IJANR template. This template is available in a .docx (Microsoft Word)
IJANR template .docx
This template details how a paper must be formatted, including references, Tables, Figures, data, etc.
It is mandatory to download and check the IJANR template before submission. Use the template for preparing your manuscript.
Author contributions
IJANR promotes CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles. This provides submission information, allowing for detailed information about individual contributions of authors to the work. Please check and discuss the roles with the authors before submission.
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Contributor role
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Role definition
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Conceptualization
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Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
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Methodology
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Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
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Software
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Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
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Validation
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Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
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Formal analysis
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Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
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Investigation
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Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
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Resources
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Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
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Data Curation
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Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
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Writing – original draft preparation
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Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
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Writing – review and editing
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Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
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Visualization
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Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
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Supervision
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Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
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Project administration
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Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
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Funding acquisition
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Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
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Author ORCID identifier
An ORCiD ID is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher, no matter how common your name is. It makes sure you and your research can be easily identified, meaning you get credit for all the work you do. Plus, it’s free and takes just a couple of minutes to get one in https://orcid.org/register. Note that you cannot create an ORCiD ID for a third person.
Submission files
To submit your article, you need to check if the following files are ready
- Your manuscript in .docx format (based on the IJANR template file)
- Figure files (PNG, TIFF, JPEG)
- Document with information of potential reviewers (.docx or .pdf)
- Any extra files, such as supplemental materials or datasets
Copyright Notice
Authors who submit to this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and guaranteeing the journal the right to be the first publication of the work as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors can set separate supplemental agreements to the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (e.g. it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Allowed and authors are encouraged to disseminate their work electronically (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their own website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges , as well as a citation more earlier and greater of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
