Author Guidelines

Journal of Current Opinion in Crop Science is an international peer-reviewed open access online journal, publishes all areas of plant science with the minimum time frame.

Submission of the manuscript in the broad areas of botany, plant breeding, genetics, seed science; plant biotechnology, molecular genetics, nanotechnology; bioinformatics, biochemistry, phytochemistry, crop physiology, crop production, plant and soil nutrition and agro-ecology; pest and disease resistance; agricultural microbiology, plant-based functional food, food composition analysis and nutritional chemistry are invited. Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

Journal of Current opinion in crop science accepts the following types of articles:

  • Original research articles
  • Short communications
  • Review articles

Research article:

  • Original full-length research articles should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; introduction; materials and methods, result, discussion or results and discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of conflict of interest statement; author contributions statements; references; table(s) with caption(s); figures with figure captions.
  • All the quantitative or biometric data analysis needs to be performed on at least three biological or technical replicates to assess significance. This refers to phenotypic data measurements, omic studies and expression analysis. Studies that do not fulfill these requirements will not be considered for a review process.
  • Manuscript should not exceed 20 pages, including tables; figures figure captions; up to 6,000 words (including figures and tables; except the title page). Line space with 1.5 using times new roman font and font size should be 12 points.
  • An unstructured abstract should contain between 150 and 200 words.
  • The manuscript should contain a minimum of 3 keywords or a maximum of 7 keywords.
  • The manuscript title should more attractive and discoverable.

Short Communications:

  • Short communications articles should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; introduction; experimental section (should be presented in very short); results and discussion should be combined into a single section; acknowledgments; declaration of conflict of interest statement; author contributions statements; references; table(s) with caption(s); figures with figure captions.
  • Manuscript should not exceed 6 pages, inclusive of tables, figures figure captions; up to 2,000 words (including figures and tables; except the title page). Line space with 1.5 using times new roman font and font size should be 12 points. The maximum number of both table and figures are 3 (1 table and 2 figures or 2 tables and 1 figure).
  • An unstructured abstract should contain maximum of 150 words.
  • The manuscript should contain a minimum of 3 of keywords or a maximum of 7 keywords.
  • Manuscript title should be attractive and discoverable.

Review articles:

  • Review articles should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; introduction; main text; acknowledgments; declaration of conflict of interest statement; author contributions statements; references; table(s) with caption(s); figures with figure captions.
  • Manuscript should not exceed 25 pages, inclusive of tables, figures figure captions; up to 7,000 words (including figures and tables; except title page). Line space with 1.5 using Times new roman font and font size should be 12 point.

REFERENCES

In text citation, references should be cited as follows: Single author (Ashokkumar, 2020); two authors (Warkentin and Jha, 2019), three or more authors (Sivakumar et al., 2014). References in the text should be listed chronologically separated by semicolon, e.g. (Meyers, 1999; Arun and Karthik, 2005; Murugan et al., 2010; Senthilkumar et al., 2015; John et al., 2020). Parenthetical citation: (Duckworth et al., 2019), (Aron et al., 2019; Dillard, 2020), Narrative citation: Duckworth et al. (2019), Aron et al. (2019) and Dillard (2020).

Journals (standard APA format)

For single author (Print journal)

Jacoby, W. G. (1994). Public attitudes toward government spending. American Journal of Political Science, 38(2), 336-361. https://doi.org/10.2307/2111407

For single author (URL/online journal)

Poiger, U. G. (1996). Rock ‘n’ roll, female sexuality, and the Cold War battle over German identities. The Journal of Modern History, 68(3). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2946768

Authors with DOI

Ashokkumar, K.,  Vellaikumar, S., Murugan, M., Dhanya M. K. & Aiswarya , S. (2020.) Compositional variation in the leaf, mace, kernel, and seed essential oil of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt.) from the Western Ghats, India, Natural Product Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2020.1771713.

Books

Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000. 

Kesharwani, P. (2020). Nanotechnology based approaches for tuberculosis treatment. Academic Press. 

Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

Torino, G. C., Rivera, D. P., Capodilupo, C. M., Nadal, K. L., & Sue, D. W. (2019). Microaggression theory: Influence and implications. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119466642.

Edited book

Kesharwani, P. (Ed.). (2020). Nanotechnology based approaches for tuberculosis treatment. Academic Press.

AshokKumar, K., Murugan, M., & Dhanya, M.K (Eds.). (2020). Cardamom: breeding, production and health benefits. Nova Science Publishers Press.

Chapter in a book

Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016.

Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.

Conference or Symposium

Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116(47), 23499–23504. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910510116.

Dissertation / Thesis

Zambrano-Vazquez, L. (2016). The interaction of state and trait worry on response monitoring in those with worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms [Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona]. UA Campus Repository. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620615.

Patents

Grant, P. (1989). Device for Elementary Analyses. Patent. No.123456. USA.

Web references:

The full URL should be given in text as a citation, if no other data are known. If the authors, year, and title of the documents are known and the reference is taken from a website, the URL address has to be mentioned after these data.

Peer Review

Journal of Current opinion in crop science journal is loyal to peer-review reliability and keeping the utmost standards of review. Once your manuscript has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be single or double-blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees.

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal for manuscript submission on or before December 31, 2022.

Article Withdrawal Charges 

If an author requests to withdraw the article after it has been peer-reviewed, or after it has been typeset (but not yet published) he/she will be charged according to the following: For India Rs. 1000/- & for other countries USD 50 per article (after peer-review), and Rs. 1500/- for India & USD 75 for other countries per article (after peer-review and typesetting). However, withdrawal is not possible after publication.

License

The journal published articles are licensed under nder a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.