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Nigerian Agricultural Journal
Instructions to authors..../ Instructions aux auteurs....
NIGERIAN AGRICULTURAL JOURNALNATURE OF PAPERS:
Papers should be of agricultural interest and include: full
reports of original research not previously published elsewhere,
research notes which consists of brief or new findings:
techniques and equipment of importance to agricultural workers:
surveys or evaluations of problems and trends in agricultural
production; reviews or announcements of publications and reports
of various agricultural agencies in Nigerian books and bulletins
of tropical agricultural interest will be included. Papers in
English or French are acceptable.
ELIGIBILITY TO PUBLISH:
Publications in the Nigerian Agricultural Journal are open to
any-one engaged in agricultural work in Nigeria and other
countries in tropical Africa.
LENGTH OF MANUSCRIPTS:
Manuscripts should be of reasonable length and should not
exceed 15,000 words.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts should be double-spaced on one side of the paper
only and with all pages serially numbered. Footnotes should be
listed in numerical order designated with familiar symbols at the
bottom of the page or below the tables and figures when
necessary. Footnotes should not be used for references, which
should be presented at the end of the text. Ample margins of at
least 1.5 inches (or 4cm) should be allowed at the top, bottom
and left hand side of each page of the text. Manuscripts should
be submitted in triplicate and a short title not exceeding 50
characters should be provided for the running headlines. Capital
letters should be used only for proper nouns and certain words
derived from them, scientific names of general families, orders
etc, and the initial letters of all-important words in the title
of the paper. Main centre headings of important sections of the
paper like abstract, introduction, materials and methods etc.
should have all the letters capitalized. The italic types,
usually designated by underlining the words to be italicized with
a single straight line, should be used for scientific names
(general and species), Latin or vernacular words and expressions,
algebraic symbols, legends to table and figures, title of books
and periodicals. Names of chemical compounds should not be
represented by chemical formulae. Chemical elements may be
represented by, their symbol after being first spelt out in full,
e.g. nitrogen (N), potassium (K) and boron (B). All stated
quantities should be in figure (e.g., 3kg, 15 tones, 81.4
percent). Decimal quantities less; than 1.0 should be written
with the cipher (e.g., 0.1, not .1.) All other numbers up to and
including ten are generally written in words; 11 and above in
figures. Unit of the System international (SI) or revised metric
system is preferred: the common unit equivalent may be added in
parentheses after SI units, e.g. 10m (11.96 sq. yards). For words
with two or more acceptable spellings (e.g., organisation and
organization) the version used in the Concise Oxford Dictionary
will be acceptable as the standard. Each paper must be
accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words. Papers in
French should be supplied with English abstracts
TABLES AND FIGURES:
Each table should be typed on a separate sheet. Table should
be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and each table
should be able to fit into the desired page of the journal. Each
table should be inserted after the page on which reference to it
was first made. Figures including graphs, other line drawings and
photographs, should be kept to a minimum and no figure should be
used to represent what has already been presented in a table.
Graphs should be drawn on unruled paper or on squared paper with
blue lines, except where coordinate ruling is required to appear
in print, in which case paper ruled in black or red may be used;
Black-and- white photographs for reproduction should be of high
quality, contain a full range of tones and be printed on glossy
white paper. Colour photographs will not be accepted for the time
being. All figures should be numbered consecutively in Roman
numerals and their legends should be typewritten separately.
REFERENCES:
A list of references should be presented in alphabetical order
of the author's names. The author's name comes first; followed by
year of publication (in parentheses); title of the paper with
only the initial letter of the first word and proper nouns
capitalized; name of the journal in italics and abbreviated
according to the World List of Scientific Periodicals; volume
number in Arabic numerals underlined with a wavy line to indicate
bold type; the first and last page of the paper (least number if
figures required) e.g. CHANT, S R. and MARDEN, J. A. (1958). A
method for the rapid propagation of cassava cuttings. Trop.
Agric. Trin. pp 195-9. For the citation of books,
the author's name comes first followed by year of publication in
brackets, title of the books underlined with the initial letters
capitalized, edition and volume number, e.g. BENNETT, M. K.
(1954). The World's Food 1st ed., pp. 55-68.
New York. Harper and Brothers..
Where an author or several joint-authors have published more
than one articles (in the same year) to which references are
made, letters of the alphabet should be added to each year to
distinguish between them, e.g. 1956b, etc. Please
submit Diskette Copy of your manuscripts in MS Words in the final
version.
PROOFS:
Only one proof is sent to authors and it is desirable that
alterations should be kept to a minimum to avoid extra cost
re-typesetting, which may be charged to the author.
PUBLICATIONS FOR REVIEW:
Authors, editors and publishers of journals, book monographs
and bulletins of scientific subjects related to agriculture are
requested to send copies to the Editor-in-Chief for review
CORRESPONDENCE:
Manuscripts and all the Communications on editorial matters
should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief.
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