Author Guidelines
For authors
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STRUCTURE OF THE ARTICLE
Article title (in English)
Initials and surnames of authors (in English)
Official name of organization, city, country (in English)
Abstract in English. Volume 2,000‒2,500 characters. The abstract should be clear and informative (without general phrases), original, meaningful (reflect the main content of an article), structured (as one paragraph of the text, describing results in a same order as in article), written in high-quality English language. The abstract should contain an introductory sentence, a brief description of the methods of research (1‒2 sentences), a description of the main results (50‒70% of the abstract) and concise conclusions or prospects for further research (1 sentence). The terminology of the text is the language of specialized international English-language journals. Abstract reveals the content of an article, familiriazes a reader with a study, without having to read it entirely.
Keywords: 6-8 words (phrases), none of which duplicates words in the title of the article.
Postal address: Name of organization, street and house, city and index, country.
Phone: +38-xxx-ххх-хх-хх.
E-mail: __________
ORCID of each of authors of an article.
When registering an article, please read the following rules. The volume of an article is 5 to 15 pages, in 8 pt Times New Roman, 1 line spacing, 2 cm fields, and A4 sheet. Manuscripts should be prepared using the MS Word software (*.doc). Units of the International Measurement System should be used.
The title of an article should briefly inform about its contents, contain no more than 12 words, and be interesting to the international audience. An original-research article contains the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and References. A review article may have different numbers of sections with arbitrary names, but the presence of Conclusions and References is mandatory.
Tables and figures are numbered according to the content of an article. The statistical and other details are given in the notes below a table. Table and illustrative materials are placed in the text of a manuscript right after they are first mentioned. All elements of the text in images (graphs, charts, diagrams), if possible, should be indicated in Times New Roman.
An article returned after revision later than a month is considered as a new entry. The Editorial Board reserves the right to correct and reduce the text. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the content of the submitted materials.
References in the text are based on APA standard (Surname, year), for example: one author ‒ (Vinson, 1997), two authors ‒ (Vargo & Laurel, 1994; Vargo & Hulsey, 2000), three and more authors ‒ (Jones et al., 1978; Davis et al., 1989).
Introduction
The introduction reveals a relevance, how a problem has been described in the international scientific literature (at least 15 references to English-language articles in international journals over the past 5 years). At the end of the introduction, the objectives of an article should be presented (hypothesis), formulated before the start of a study.
An objective of a study (goals) should succinctly indicate a main result, for achieving which a research had been designed. The purpose should not duplicate the title of an article.
Material and methods
This chapter should allow other researchers to repeat an experiment under the same conditions and compare results they would have achieved with those of the authors. If needed, this section could be divided into subsections.
Results
The section, if necessary, is divided into subsections. Requirements for writing this section are the same as for all international scientific publications. The section presents experimental or theoretical data obtained during a study, without their interpretation. Figures (graphs, diagrams, charts) and tables are used.
Results and Discussions cannot be combined into one section.
Discussion
The Discussion should contain interpretation and summarization of the results, comparing them with 10-25 results obtained by other researchers while studying similar issues.
Frequent shortcomings must be avoided. Please note the following.
The Latin names of the genera and species should be italicized, the author's surname and the year of the description of the species should be in the regular type.
Do not provide a reference to a table or a figure as a separate sentence.
Avoid sentences of “superfluous” words, sentences with complicated constructions, large fragments of text.
Use SI units of measurement: without dots (t, m, g, ha, mol), and non-standardized units with abbreviations (ex./m2, etc.).
The spaces should be used prior and after characters such as dash and hyphen.
Thematic names of tables and figures (notes to them) should be comprehensive. The reader should not re-read the Material and Methods, or the title of an article, in order to understand the contents of table or figure, to understand repetition of an experiment and to find the information given after the plus/minus: standard error, mean square deviation or error (SE, SD or m).
An article may be rejected by the reviewers due to lack of a proper statistical analysis of primary data.
The tables, etc, should be editable.
Conclusions
Conclusions ‒ 5‒10 sentences, provided as a continuous text. Provide main ideas of an article, demonstrate their novelty, focus on the practical application of a result, and suggest directions for further research.
Acknowledgments
Credits, if necessary, should be given after the Conclusions, before the Bibliographic References.
References
References are given alphabetically, and not in the order of mention in the text (the total number of references ‒ not less than 30 for an original-research article and not less than 100 for a review article).
A reference should contain names of all authors. The list of references is based on the requirements of the American Psychological Association, with DOI indexes, available at www.crossref.org.
References to articles:
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (2005). Title of article. Title of Journal, vv(n), pp–pp. doi:
Gahleitner, G. (2013). Hydrogen from renewable electricity: an international review of power-to-gas pilot plants for stationary applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(5), 2039–2061. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.12.010
Zhukov, A. V., & Zadorozhnaya, G. A. (2016). Spatio-temporal dynamics of the penetration resistance of recultivated soils formed after opencast mining. Visnyk of Dnipropetrovsk University, Biology, Ecology, 24(2), 324–331. doi: 10.15421/011642
Buryak, Z. A., Grigoreva, O. I., & Pavlyuk, Y. V. (2014). GIS maintenance of rural territories geoplanning under basin principles. International Journal of Advanced Studies, 4(2), 56–60. doi: 10.12731/2227-930X-2014-2-8
Derkach, K. V., Abraimova, O. E., & Satarova, T. M. (2011). Kalusogennyj potencial linij kukurudzy grupy Lankaster v umovah in vitro [Callusogenic potential of maize lines of Lancaster group in vitro]. Visnyk of Dnipropetrovsk University, Biology, Ecology, 19(1), 16–21 (in Ukrainian).
References to books:
Zhukov, O. V. (2015). Analiz prostorovyh danyh v ekologii' ta sil's'komu gospodarstvi [Analysis of spatial data in ecology and agriculture]. Dnipropetrovsk University Press, Dnipropetrovsk (in Ukrainian). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3480.2406
Demydov, А. А., Kobets, A. S., Hrytsan, Y. Y., & Zhukov, A. V. (2013). Prostranstvennaja agrojekologyja y rekul'tyvacyja zemel' [Spatial agroecology and land recultivation]. Svidler, Dnipropetrovsk (in Russian). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5175.5040
References to websites, laws, theses, etc are not allowed.
Be sure to check the correctness of transliteration of authors' surnames (it is better to choose the version that is the most widespread on the Internet).
Authorization details about the author(s)
‒ Full name
‒ Degree, title
‒ Department
‒ University (research institution), address
‒ E-mail
‒ Contact phone numbers of the author (s)
‒ ORCID number (required)
The number of refinements and revisions when editing an article should be minimal.
APC
Publication of an article is free of charge.
The procedure for reviewing articles
The journal Agrology uses double-blind peer review: neither the authors nor the reviewers know each other.
The Editorial Board identifies whether an article conforms to the journal’s profile. Within three working days, the editor-in-chief informs the authors that an electronic version of article has been received. The period of review in each particular case is determined taking into account busyness of reviewers for the fastest review of an article (usually one to two weeks). The review notes the following aspects of a future publication:
– correspondence of the content of the article with its heading;
– how much the article corresponds to the modern achievements of science;
– whether an article is reader-friendly from the point of view of language, style, location of material, tables, figures, etc.;
– what specifically attracts attention; shortcomings of the article; corrections and additions to be made by the author;
In case of a rejection, the editorial board informs an author about the reasons.
An article that had not been recommended by a reviewer is not considered for publication for the second time.
A positive review of an article is not a valid reason for its publication. The final decision on expediency of publication is made by the Editorial Board. The editor-in-chief informs an author (s) about verdict
Accompanying documents
The author fills in and signs the License Agreement for the Use of the Work.
Contacts
Address of the Editorial Board: Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University, 25 Serhiy Yefremov St., Dnipro, 49000, Ukraine.
Phone: + 38-050-939-07-88.
E-mail: brigad@ua.fm
