Guidelines

⇑  Focus and scope

The journal is a serial scientific publication aimed at specialists, researchers, professors and students from all over the world, and its objective is to publish original and unpublished works derived from research processes in agricultural sciences, and that are not simultaneously postulated in other journals or editorials.

Its publications scope the following topics: Sustainable Agriculture, Agroecology, Agromatics, Biofertilizers, Agricultural Biotechnology, Edaphology, Abiotic stresses, Crop Physiology and Biochemistry, Agronomy, Crop Genetics and Breeding, Local Agriculture Innovation, Applied Mathematics, Plant Nutrition, Bioactive Products, Irrigation and Drainage.

⇑  Types of documents

  1. Original article, which do not exceed 15 typed pages. Articles should be divided into sections: Summary, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Bibliography and Annexes.
  2. Short communication, not exceeding 1500 words or space equivalent including figures and tables. They should be brief and definitive reports and not present preliminary conclusions. Brief communications do not need to be divided into Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, but the Materials and Methods can be described in the text or, if appropriate, in figure legends or table footnotes.
  3. Report on a new cultivar, information on obtaining or discovering a new species of interest.
  4. The Review, will be published at the invitation of the Editors or at the suggestion of the authors and may be up to three pages in length.
  5. Bibliographic review, their The purpose is to examine the literature published on a topic and put it in perspective to develop a new line of research from it. The fundamental objective of the review article is to identify what is known, what has been investigated and what aspects remain unknown about a topic. The structure of sections and length may vary depending on the explanatory interests of the author.

⇑  Structure and format of the Articles

Each document sent must be contained in a Word file with *.docx extension. The suggested fonts for the text of the documents are: Times New Roman, Arial, 10 pt. It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor used. The text must be in a single column format. Keep the text layout as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced when processing the item. In particular, do not use word processor options to justify text or hyphenate words. However, use bold, italics, subscripts, superscripts, among others.

Articles should be divided into clearly defined sections. The sections and their fundamental characteristics are presented below.

⇑  Documentary typology

It must be aligned to the right and the exact documentary typology that the journal has defined must be used (e.g. Original Article).

⇑  Title

  • Must be concise and able to make the reader aware of the essential content of the article.
  • Its maximum length should be 15 words.
  • It should not be overloaded with information in the form of abbreviations, symbols , formulas or unknown characters, and place where the study was carried out.
  • It should not be a double meaning or literary phrase.
  • Eliminate subtitles and all non-specific words.
  • In your writing you should use a neutral approach writing style, that is, you should not suggest the result that is going to be obtained.

⇑ Authors

  • The journal prohibits and sanctions guest authorship and similar practices in scientific and academic production processes.
  • The name of each author must be accompanied by a number or character indicating which affiliation it belongs to and if it is the corresponding author.

⇑  Affiliation(s)

  • Each affiliation will present the number or character that relates it to one or more authors /es.
  • The editor must ensure that each affiliation presents at least the standardized name of the institution and the country to which it belongs.
  • To standardize or search the names of the affiliations, suggests using the services: ROR (https://ror.org/search) and Wayta (http://wayta.scielo.org/ )

⇑  Correspondence

  • The name must be defined of the corresponding author(s) and the active email account.

⇑  Abstract

  • Must be the abbreviated representation of the content of the document.
  • You must summarize in a maximum of 250 words the central aspects included in each of the sections of the document, so that you can: establish the problem, interest and objective of the research. It should describe, without details, the materials chosen and the methods used, and summarize the main results (only these), as well as state the main conclusions.
  • Reference should not be made to figures, tables and bibliographical citations. . You should not include information that is not described in the work, nor begin with the objective without first having stated the problematic situation.
  • Although a graphical summary is optional, its use is recommended as it draws more attention to the online article. The graphical summary should summarize the content of the article in a concise pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a broad readership. The graphical summary should have a clear beginning and end, preferably "reading" from top to bottom or left to right. Try to reduce distracting and cluttering items as much as possible. Please provide an image with a minimum size of 1328 x 531 pixels (width x height) with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. The preferred file types are SVG, PNG, PDF or MS Office files.

To compose a graphic summary you can use the template: visual-abstract.pptx

You can also check the publications: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semnephrol.2020.04.008 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.08.054

Or view the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CzSvC6ZtS1I

⇑  Keywords

  • They designate and identify the most important aspects discussed in the article. They serve to locate information of interest and create databases and subject indexes. They will be written from 3 to 10 maximum in order of importance to reflect the content of the document. It is proposed to use the.
  • For the standardization of keywords it is recommended to use services such as: AGROVOC https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/es/search

⇑  Declaration of conflict of interest

This declaration must be presented in each work even if the authors have no interest in competence to declare In this declaration the authors of the research must choose one of the following scenarios:

  1. The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests or known personal relationships that could have influenced the work presented in this paper.
  2. The author is a member of the editorial board/editor-in-chief/associate editor/guest editor of the journal and was not involved in the editorial review or decision to publish this article.
  3. The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships that may be considered potentially competing interests: … (Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, applications/ patent registrations and grants or other funds) …

⇑  Declaration of authorship contributions

  • The participation of all authors of the document will be collected.
  • Participation roles will be established as provided in the taxonomy CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/)
  • When the document has a single author, it will not be necessary to establish the declaration of authorship contributions.

⇑  Source of financing

You are asked to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsors, if any, in the design of the study; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in writing the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the financing source(s) did not have such participation, it is recommended to indicate this. Example:

  • This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number yyyy].

It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions about the program or type of scholarships and awards. When funding comes from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.

If not specified has provided funding for the research, it is recommended that you include the following sentence:

  • This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sector.

⇑  Declaration of use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies

⇑  Data declaration

  • This journal requires and allows you to share data that supports the publication of your research where appropriate, and allows you to interconnect the data with your published articles.
  • Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings, which may also include data files, software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods, and other useful materials related to the research.
  • You will have the opportunity to provide a statement of data during the shipping process. The statement will appear with your published article.

⇑  Introduction

  • It will be brief, try to use the main keywords and will go from general to specific.
  • In it you must establish the contextual framework in which the problem to be solved is inserted, what is known and what is unknown about the issue in question, what the research would represent economically, socially, technologically and scientifically, and the objective of the work with the that must close.
  • You can also use the three-paragraph outline, where the first paragraph will present the background, in the second the why it is necessary to study the problem, and in the third the objective.

⇑  Materials and Methods

  • It must provide sufficient information so that the research can be replicated, and unnecessary descriptions must be avoided.
  • The materials used must be mentioned. They quantitatively or qualitatively determined the obtaining of the data, not the instruments used.
  • In relation to the methods, three possible scenarios must be taken into account:
    1. When the method is standard, simply mention it and include the bibliographic reference.
    2. When the method is not standard but has been used before, discuss why it is necessary to use it and put the bibliographic reference where the method is described.
    3. When the method has been generated or adapted for the study, describe it completely or at least the transformed part.
  • This section of Materials and Methods can be organized into 5 areas that contemplate:
    1. Environment: Indicates where the study has been done.
    2. Design: Describes the design of the experiment.
    3. Population: Characterizes the sample and how its selection and taking.
    4. Interventions: Describes the techniques, methods, measurements and units, equipment and technology.
    5. Statistical analysis: Indicates the statistical programs and methods used. The programs are referenced.
  • The subtitles used to name the areas are freely selected by the authors, examples: General conditions, Treatments, Measurements, Statistical Analysis.

⇑  Results and Discussion

  • You should never show data that is not clearly related to the objective of the work.
  • The research data is shown in figures and tables, which must be self-contained. explanatory and marked with titles and legends.
  • While the table provides precision, the figures provide a clearer visual impact of the effects of the treatments and of trends and interactions.
  • Both Central elements of the discussion are to indicate, with neutral judgment and some speculation, what the findings mean and how these findings relate to what was known until then.
  • In the discussion, data from the studies should not be repeated. figures and tables.
  • Make clear the principles, relationships and extrapolations that could be derived from the results (speculations). Exceptions must be highlighted.
  • Indicate how the results and their interpretations agree with, or conflict with, other scientific research.
  • Present the theoretical implications of the work and the practical applications it could have.
  • Figures must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, and must be inserted in the body of the text after their first mention. It is recommended that each figure present a consecutively numbered figure caption. Example:

figure example

Figure 1. Description of the image caption.

  • The tables will be inserted in the body of the text after their first mention and must be editable (and not as images). It is recommended to use a consecutively numbered table header. If you use MS Word, use the table layout: "Table with grid". Example:

Table 1. Table header description.

Estaciones

Viento máximo sostenido promediados en 10 min.

Racha máxima

Día /Hora (Z)

Velocidad (Km/h)

Día /Hora (Z)

Velocidad (Km/h)

Bahía Honda

08 /20:35

40

08 /20:35

78

Güira de Melena

09 /03:25

30

09 /04:05

70

Bauta

09 /01:40

25

09 /04:40

63

Source: Prepared by Cervantes (2019)

  • Equations and terms must be presented in editable format (not images) built with MathType or with the equation editor Word. Example:

x=-b±b2-4ac2a

  • The nomenclatures and units of measurements used must follow the internationally accepted rules and conventions for the treatment of units of measurements such as International System of Units (SI).

⇑   Conclusions

  • They should highlight the main implications of the data obtained in the research and not make a statistical count of the values shown.
  • In all cases the conclusions must be justified by the data presented and respond to the proposed objectives.

⇑  Acknowledgments

  • Collate the acknowledgments in one section separated at the end of the article before the bibliography and therefore do not include them on the home page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those people who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, assistance with writing or proofreading the article, etc.).

⇑  Footnotes

  • Footnotes page layouts should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors can incorporate footnotes into the text and you can use this feature. Otherwise, indicate the position of the footnotes in the text and list the footnotes separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the reference list.

⇑  Abbreviations

  • Define non-standard abbreviations in list form and within this section.
  • Make sure abbreviations are consistent throughout the article.

⇑  Bibliography

In the section, it is very common that the metadata of the documents used are incomplete and are not presented with the homogeneity established by the Vancouver standard, which is the style bibliographical of the journal. In this way, in the arbitration processes various errors are detected due to omission of elements such as: date of publication, publishers and responsible institutions, standardized identifiers (ISSN, ISBN, DOI), places of publication, pages and electronic addresses. On the other hand, the names of the authors are placed incorrectly and grammatical errors occur in the writing of the titles.

To homogenize and facilitate the preparation of citations in the text and the bibliography, it is recommended to use the bibliographic manager Zotero and the citation style processor of the CSL journal (for its acronym in English) Vancouver that can be downloaded from the address https://www.zotero.org/styles/bibliotheque-universitaire-de-medecine-vancouver.

It is mandatory to incorporate the permanent or persistent identifier in each reference (Cu-ID, DOI, Handle, among others) as long as one has been assigned. To find these permanent identifiers, it is recommended to use the following services:

To prepare the different types of documents, edited and published works must be used such as: articles from scientific journals, books, book chapters, articles in conferences (conferences, symposiums, seminars, workshops and events, of which at least the proceedings have been published), patents and standards, reports from recognized institutions with international prestige (FAO, UNESCO, among others) that present the corresponding standardized identifier (ISBN, ISSN or DOI), maps and satellite images, legal resources and computer programs. Regardless of this range of possibilities, to prepare any type of document, articles in scientific journals should be used to a greater extent since these constitute the central unit of science to issue its results.

On the other hand, the use of the following sources should be limited: theses (when published in the form of scientific articles or books), newspaper articles, interviews, audiovisual documents, electronic documents not indexed in databases of scientific journals, web pages (less certain statistical sites). Self-citations, both from the author himself and from the journal, should not exceed 20% of the literature consulted.

Citations in the text are made through calls with Arabic numbers in parentheses. Each work cited in the text must have a unique number assigned in order of citation. If a work is cited more than once, it will retain the same number.

Citations of an author can be made by a number or by integrating the author's name followed by a number in the text. When an author is mentioned in the text, the reference number is placed after the author's name. If the author is not named, the number will appear at the end of the sentence, example:

  • Tumors can spread from the lung to any part of the body (1)...
  • As Lagman (2) indicated, diabetes care…

If the work has more than one author, the first author et al. will be cited in the text, example:

  • Simona et al. (5) establish that the principle

To cite a work that does not have a known author, you must use what is called 'corporate author'. For example, an organization or entity:

  • The Ministry of Health (4) has recently estimated that hepatitis…

When there is more than one quote, they must be separated by commas, but if they are correlative, the first and last are mentioned separated by a hyphen, example:

  • Modern scientific nomenclature really began with Linnaeus in botany (1), but other disciplines (2,5) were not many years behind in developing various systems (4-7) for nomenclature and symbolization

Text quote: It must be brief, less than five lines, it is inserted within the text between quotation marks, and the corresponding number is placed at the end, after the quotation marks and before the punctuation mark, example :

  • “…has been proven demonstrably false.” (4)

Below are some examples of bibliographic references generated according to the style of the journal:

Articles in scientific journals

1. Li YL, McAllister TA, Beauchemin KA, He ML, McKinnon JJ, Yang WZ. Substitution of wheat dried distillers grains with solubles for barley grain or barley silage in feedlot cattle diets: Intake, digestibility, and ruminal fermentation1. Journal of Animal Science. 2011;89(8):2491–501. DOI: 10.2527/jas.2010-3418

Books

1. Azcón-Bieto J. Talón M, editor. Fundamentos de fisiología vegetal. Segunda. Madrid: McGraw-Hill España; 2013.

Standards and Patents

1. Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales. Especificaciones de fertilidad, salinidad y clasificación de suelos. Estudios, muestreo y análisis. México; NOM-021-SEMARNAT-2000, 2002. p. 85.

Computer Programs

1. SAS Institute. Statistical Analysis Software SAS/STAT®. Cary, N.C., USA: SAS Institute Inc.; 2010.

Reports

1. Uribe F, Zuluaga AF, Valencia L, Murgueitio E, Zapata A, Solarte L, et al. Establecimiento y manejo de sistemas silvopastoriles [Internet]. Bogotá, Colombia: Banco Mundial; 2011 [cited 2016 Feb 12] p. 78. Proyecto ganadería colombiana sostenible. Available from: http://www.cipav.org.co/pdf/1.Establecimiento.y.manejo.de.SSP.pdf

Thesis

1. Allen ME. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for discrete distributions [Master Thesis internet]. Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School; 1976 [cited 2016 May 26]. Available from: http://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/17830

Maps

1. López LJA, Vicente BJM, Blasco F, Mallén D, Saz D. GR 11 Senda Pirenaica de mar a mar. 7th ed. Zaragoza: Prames S.A.; 2012. (Senderos de Gran Recorrido).

Pages Web

1. ONEI (Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas e Información). Anuario Estadístico de Cuba [Internet]. 2014. Territorio; Agricultura, Ganadería, Silvicultura y Pesca [cited 2016 Apr 29]. Available from: http://www.one.cu/aec2013/20080618index.htm

Section of a Book

1. Rivera R, Fernández F, Fernández K, Ruiz L, Sánchez C, Riera M. Advances in the management of effective arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in tropical ecosystesm. In: Hamel C, Plenchette C, editors. Mycorrhizae in Crop Production. [Internet]. Binghamton, N. Y.: Haworth Food & Agricultural Products Press; 2006 [cited 2016 Jun 12]. Available from: http://www.amazon.com/Mycorrhizae-Crop-Production-Science/dp/1560223073

Conference Articles (Conferences, Symposium, Seminars, Workshops and Events)

1. Fita A, Postma J, Picó B, Nuez F, Lynch J. Root architecture variation in Cucurbita. In: Pitrat M, editor. IX EUCARPIA meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucurbitaceae. Montfavet, France: INRA-Centre de Recherche d’Avignon-Unité Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes; 2008. p. 487–91.

⇑  Audiovisual materials

The journal accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance its scientific research. Authors who have video or animation files they wish to submit with their article are encouraged to include links to them in the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table, by referencing the content of the video or animation and noting in the body of the text where it should be placed. All submitted files must be appropriately tagged so that they relate directly to the content of the video file. The preferred maximum size is 150 MB per file, 1 GB total. The supplied video and animation files will be published online in the electronic version of your article. Provide "still photos" with your files - you can choose any frame from the video or animation or create a separate image. These will be used in place of the standard icons and will customize the link to your video data.

⇑  Supplementary material

Supplementary material, such as applications, datasets, images, audiovisual materials, among others, can be published with your article to improve it. Submitted supplemental materials are posted exactly as received (Excel or PowerPoint files will appear as such online). Submit your material along with the article and provide a concise, descriptive title for each supplemental file. If you wish to make changes to the supplemental material during any stage of the process, please be sure to provide an updated file.

⇑  Additional considerations

  • The manuscript must be checked for spelling and grammar.
  • It must be submitted together with the document, permissions to use copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet).

⇑  Other policies of the mandatory reference journal