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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Instructions for Authors

The Yemeni Journal of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences (ISSN) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication every six months (Twice a year) of articles in all areas of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence.

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. Submit manuscripts to the Editorial Office at yjavs@tu.du.e.ye

Article Types

Three types of manuscripts may be submitted:

Regular articles: These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and research methods should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.

Short Communications: A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models, innovative methods or techniques. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.

Reviews: Submissions of reviews and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged. Reviews should be concise and no longer than 4-6 printed pages (about 12 to 18 manuscript pages). Reviews manuscripts are also peer-reviewed.

Review Process

All manuscripts are reviewed by an Editor and members of the Editorial Board or qualified external reviewers. Authors cannot nominate reviewers. Only reviewers randomly selected from our database with specialization in the subject area will be contacted to evaluate the manuscripts. The process will be blind review. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewers’ comments to authors within a short period of time. The Editorial board will re-review manuscripts that are accepted pending revision. It is the goal of the Yemeni Journal of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences (YJAVS) to publish manuscripts shortly after submission.

Regular articles

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

The Title 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, scope of the work, 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.

 

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 disciplines.

 

Materials and methods should be complete enough to allow possible replication of the research. However, only truly new research methods should be described in detail; previously published methods should be cited, and important modifications of published methods 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.

 

The Results should be presented with clarity and precision. The results should be written in the past tense when describing author's findings. 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 the 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.

 

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 research methods 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 PowerPoint 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. Kingori, University of Nairobi, Kenya, personal communication). Journal names write according to Harvard  style.

 

Examples:

  1. APPLE, J. 1977. The theory of disease management. IJG Horsfall and EB Cowling, eds. Academic Press, New York, 79-101.
  2. BAKONYI, J., LáDAY, M., DULA, T. & ERSEK, T. 2002. Characterisation of isolates of Phytophthora infestans from Hungary. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 108, 139-146
  3. ERNANDEZ NORTHCOTE, E. 2003. Proceedings of the International Workshop Complementing Resistance to Late Blight (Phytophthera Infestans) in the Andes, February 13-16, 2001, Cochabamba, Bolivia, International Potato Center.

Grasshoppers: Proceedings of an international workshop held at Cotonou, Benin. Oxford: CAB International, pp 181-190.

Mundree, S.G., Farrant ,J.M. 2000. Some physiological and molecular insights into the mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in the resurrection plant Xerophyta viscasa Baker. In Cherry et al. (eds) Plant tolerance to abiotic stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp 201-222.

Babalola,O.O.2002. Interactions between Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth. and fluorescent rhizosphere bacteria Of Zea mays, L. and Sorghum bicolor L. Moench for Striga suicidal germination In Vigna unguiculata . PhD dissertation, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

 

 

Short Communications

Short Communications are limited to a maximum of two figures and one table. They should present a complete study that is more limited in scope than is found in full-length papers. The items of manuscript preparation listed above apply to Short Communications with the following differences: (1) Abstracts are limited to 100 words; (2) instead of a separate Materials and Methods section, research methods may be incorporated into Figure Legends and Table footnotes; (3) Results and Discussion should be combined into a single section.

 

Proofs and Reprints: Electronic proofs will be sent (e-mail attachment) to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. With the exception of typographical or minor clerical errors, no changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage. Because YJAVS will be published online without access restrictions, authors will have electronic access to the full text (PDF) of the article. Authors can download the PDF file from which they can print unlimited copies of their articles.

 

Copyright: 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) that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.

Fees and Charges: Authors are required to pay a ------ handling fee.  Publication of an article in the Yemeni Journal of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences is not contingent upon the author's ability to pay the charges. Neither is acceptance to pay the handling fee a guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication. Authors may still request (in advance) that the editorial office waive some of the handling fee under special circumstances.

 

Copyright Notice

Concerning researchers:

Submitting the research to the journal is subject to the researcher’s agreement to adhere to the standards and ethics of publishing set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). To view the standards in the following two links:

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines

https://publicationethics.org/

The researcher signs a declaration confirming his ownership of the research, the originality of his research, and that it has not been published previously or sent to another party for publication.
If the researcher becomes aware of any defect in his research, after sending it to the journal, or after publishing it, he must notify the editor-in-chief of this, and he must work to correct the defect.
The researcher must be responsive and work on any recommended amendments at any time from the stages of submitting the research to the journal until publishing the research or after its publication if necessary.
The researcher should avoid addressing topics that raise sectarianism, ethnicity, sectarianism, or partisanship.
The research published in the journal expresses only the opinions of the researchers.
The journal does not publish research that does not comply with these published standards, and if the journal discovers after publishing the research that its author does not adhere to these standards, it will remove the research from the journal’s website and the databases indexed in it, at any time it discovers this.
In accordance with the Code of Conduct, the journal will report any suspected cases of plagiarism or duplicate publication. It reserves the right to use plagiarism detection software to check submitted papers at any time.

As for the editors

The editor bears responsibility for selecting research that is suitable for publication in the journal and contributes to making appropriate decisions regarding that, and regarding copyright infringement and plagiarism. In the meantime, he consults with specialized referees and whomever he deems members of the journal’s advisory body.
The editor is also committed to the following:
Complete neutrality and objectivity regarding the research submitted to the magazine, so that it is considered regardless of the researcher’s race, gender, beliefs, or nationality.
Confidentiality, such that no information related to the research submitted to the journal is revealed, except to those authorized to do so by the journal’s administrative body and the journal’s advisory board, if necessary.
Integrity and fair dealing: He is required to ensure the integrity of the arbitrators whom he contributes to selecting, and he is careful not to reveal the identity of the researchers to the arbitrators and vice versa.
Contributing to the research and investigation processes regarding the integrity of the research submitted to the journal, ensuring its scientific integrity, making the necessary appropriate corrections, or rejecting and withdrawing the article when necessary. He looks into the complaints submitted if requested, follows up on them, and communicates with those he is assigned to communicate with regarding this.

As for the arbitrators:

Each research is sent to two arbitrators in the field of specialization, and when the research is rejected by one of them, it is sent to a third arbitrator in fairness to the researcher. His arbitration is decisive in the outcome of accepting the research or not. In all cases, the arbitration process is double-blind, so the researcher does not know who the arbitrator is, nor does the arbitrator know who the researcher is. .
The arbitrators will be from different universities and hold high academic titles (professor or associate professor).
The arbitrator is committed to scientific integrity in arbitrating research, and to refrain from any bias.
The arbitrator shall adhere to the time allotted to him, and if he encounters any problem, he must inform the editor-in-chief immediately.
The arbitrator is committed to complete confidentiality regarding the research entrusted to him for arbitration.
The arbitrator shall supplement his report with scientific evidence, and shall be committed to providing detailed comments on the research.

As for the magazine’s administrative body:

It follows the highest standards of integrity and transparency.
The policies of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) are a reference in scientific research ethics.
Ensure that research submitted for publication is evaluated, regardless of the gender, religious belief, or political affiliation of the author.
Maintaining the confidentiality of information related to research submitted for publication by people who can view it.
Commitment to giving the researcher sufficient opportunity to make the required amendments and answer the arbitrators’ questions.
Commitment to inform the researcher of the approval to publish his research, and the specific number for publishing it.
The editorial board may amend texts in accordance with linguistic revisions.

Researchers also always retain copyright. The research is licensed under an open Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, which means that anyone may download and read the research for free. It is also permissible to reuse and quote the research provided that the original published source is cited. These conditions allow maximum use of the researcher's work and presentation.

 

 

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