Guide for Authors

Instructions for Authors

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production process, and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as thoroughly as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.
Journal of organic farming of medicinal plants considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:

  • The manuscript is your own original work and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work
  • The manuscript has been submitted only to the Journal of Organic Farming of Medicinal Plants; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication in the press or published elsewhere
  • The manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

Preparing Your Paper

All manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout on regular letter-size paper with margins of 2.5 cm from each side. The language of publication is English. Manuscripts must be checked by an English specialist before submission.

Online Submission

Authors should submit their manuscripts online.

Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction; materials and methods; results and discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions.

Title Page

The title page should include:

  • A concise and informative title
  • The name(s) of the author(s)
  • The affiliation(s) and address (es) of the author(s)
  • The e-mail address, telephone, and fax numbers of the corresponding author

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

  • Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
  • Use italics for emphasis.
  • Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
  • Do not use field functions.
  • Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
  • Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
  • Save your file in Docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Headings

Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the references list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References

Citation

The APA citation style is used by this journal.

In the text, a reference identified by means of an author‘s name should be followed by the date of the reference in parenthesis. Only the first author‘s name should be mentioned when there are more than two authors, followed by ’et al‘.In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lowercase letter like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the date to distinguish the works.

Parenthetical citations: (Aron et al., 2019; Dillard, 2020; Thestrup & Dake, 2010)

Narrative citations: Aron et al. (2019), Dillard (2020), and Thestrup & Dake (2010)

Some examples:

  1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Dake, 2008).
  2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (Rai & Verma, 2010)
  3. This effect has been widely studied (Bakkali et al., 2008).
  4. Dake (2008) indicated that…
  5. Hadi & Andujar (2009) reported that….

The list of references should be on a separate page. Authors bear complete responsibility for the accuracy of the references. The following examples illustrate the format for reference:

A Book

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

Chapter in an edited book (If the chapter is from an authored book)

Razzaghi-Abyaneh, M., Shams-Ghahfarokhi, M., Rezaee, M.B. & Sakuda, S. (2010). Natural Aflatoxin Inhibitors from Medicinal Plants. In: M. Rai, & A. Varma (eds.) Mycotoxins in Food, Feed and Bioweapons (pp. 329-354). Springer-Verlag Publication.

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.

An article in a journal

Pande, C. & Mathela, C.S. (2000). Chemical composition of the leaf oil of Juniperus communis L. from the Kumaon region. J. Essential oil Bearing Plants. 3(3), 135-138.

Reference List

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and it must be arranged in numerical order. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.

Tables

All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.

Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.

Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.

Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

Figure Numbering

  • All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
  • Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
  • Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
  • If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures, "A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.

Figure Captions

  • Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
  • Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.

Electronic Supplementary Material

JOFMP accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter.

Proof Reading

The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables, and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title, and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor-in-Chief. After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.

Conflict of Interests

The authors have to declare any conflict of interest.

Online First

The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs.

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees, or page charges for this journal.

Licensing

All articles of the Journal are Open Access and will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute according to Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). That means you are free to:

SHARE - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

ADAPT - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Copyright

Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.