Author Guidelines

General Requirements

Full paper must be either reports of original research, critical reviews or interpretive article. The Journal also publishes short communications. Submissions to "Vegetable Science" must not be previously published in or simultaneously submitted to any other scientific or technical journal. The editorial board does not undertake any responsibility to scrutinize regarding the approval of forward of papers by the Head of the Department or Institution or any other competent authority. The responsibility for statements made in the papers whether of fact or opinion, rests entirely with the authors thereof. Authors must be member (Annual or life) of Indian Society of Vegetable Science (ISVS) before article is published in thejournal.

Scope

Vegetable science course all aspects of vegetable research & development i.e. genetics, breeding, cytology, genomics, biotechnology, metabolism, physiology, ecology, quality, production technology, disease management, insect management, post harvest management, marketing, extension, etc. Articles reporting research in vegetable crops or reviews or interpretation of such research will be accepted for review as research papers/ review papers. Short articles concerned with experimental techniques, apparatus and observation of unique phenomena will be accepted for review as short communications.

Submission procedures and preparation

All the manuscript should be submitted through on-line submission process of website of the Journal (www.indianjournals.com). For details please visit to website and follow guidelines. Articles sent through surface mail/email will not be entertained.

Text formatting: Manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word format. Use a normal, plain font (e.g. 12-point Times New Roman) for text, italics for scientific name and emphasis, automatic page numbering function to number the pages, tab commands for indents and not the space bar, table function to make tables and save your file in docx format (MS Word 2007 or higher). Please use internationally accepted signs, symbols or units (SI units). Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Creating manuscript files: On first page, give the title in sentence case which should include short informative title of the article, the name(s) of the author(s) in title case, affiliation(s) and address(s) of the author(s), and provide email address, telephone and fax number of corresponding author. Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words in English and Hindi both. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviation or unspecified references. Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing. After the title page and abstract, the usual order of section is Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments (optional) and References followed by Figures, Figure captions and Tables.

Figures. Submit figures in high-resolution (300 or more dpi), TIFFS/EPS/JPG files. Photographs and drawings for graphs and charts should be prepared with good contrast of dark and light. Give care full attention to the width of lines and size and clarity of type and symbols. Figure caption should be brief but sufficiently detailed to tell its own story.

Tables: Prepare tables with the table feature of your word processer, do not use tab spaces or graphics boxes. Each datum needs to be contained in an individual cell. Number the tables consecutively. Table heads should be brief but complete and self-contained. Define all variables and spell out all abbreviations. Tables should be placed at the end of the main text documents.

Citations and References: Cite references in the text by name and year such as by Singh (2015), Singh and Seligman (1996), (Singh 1991, Barakat et al. 1995, Singh and Chaudhary 1995). The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communication and unpublished work should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use foot notes or end notes as a substitute for a reference list. Citations in text and reference list should contain each and every citation. Always use the standard abbreviation of a Journal's name according to the ISSN list of title word abbreviations. Some examples of reference listing are given bellow.

Maenhout S, Baets BD, Haesaert G and Bockstaele EV (2007) Support vector machine regression for the prediction of maize hybrid performance. Theor Appl Genet 115:1003-1013.

Meuwissen THE, Hayes BJ and Goddard ME (2001) Prediction of total genetic value using genome-wide dense marker maps. Genetics 157(4): 1819-1829.

South J and Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London.

Brown B and Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257.

Slifka MK and Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med Doi: 10.1007/s001090000086.

Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing Physics Web. http://physicsweb.org/ articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007.

Change CC and Lin CJ (2001) LIBSVM: a library for support vector machines. Software available at http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm.