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researchers, professors and students from all over the world, and its objective is to publish original and unpublished works derived from research processes in agricultural sciences, and that are not simultaneously postulated in other journals or editorials.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

  • Scientific papers:
    • will occupy up to 8 pages (after edited)
    • title in spanish and english (up 15 words)
    • authors (fulfilling the provisions)
    • authors data
    • abstracts (250 words each in both languages)
    • up to 10 key words (in both languages)
    • Introduction
    • Materials and Methods
    • Results and Discussion
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements (if necessary)
    • Bibliography (no less than 15)
  • Short Communications:
    • will occupy up to 3 pages (after edited)
    • title in spanish and english (up 15 words)
    • authors (fulfilling the provisions)
    • authors data
    • abstracts (250 words each in both languages)
    • up to 10 key words (in both languages)
    • with a similar structure to scientific papers
    • should contain relevant information, even though it is repeated in time  
  • Reports of new cultivar
    • will occupy only 1 pages (after edited)
    • title in spanish and english (up 15 words)
    • authors (fulfilling the provisions)
    • authors data
    • abstracts (brief, in both languages)
    • up to 10 key words (in both languages)
    • introduction
    • origin and description
    • with no bibliography 
  • Bibliographic reviews
    • will occupy up 10 pages (after edited)
    • title in spanish and english (up 15 words)
    • authors (fulfilling the provisions)
    • authors data
    • abstract (250 words each in both languages)
    • up to 10 key words (in both languages)
    • introduction
    • conclusions
    • bibliography (the necessary and the most possible updated 
  • Review
    • with a similar structure to Bibliographic reviews
    • must  have the author criteria about the matter of paper

⇑  Characteristics of each section

Each document sent to the journal (revistacultivostropicales@gmail.com), 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