Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development

Instructions for Authors

Submissions

Submit your manuscripts to the journal via Editorial Manager.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

•  The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
•  The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
•  The available URLs for the references have been provided.
•  The ORCID identifier (in user account settings) has been added
•  The paper does not infringe on the copyrights of other individuals.

Author Guidelines

Submission Preparation Checklist

The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript. Before submitting the paper please:

• read the Aims & Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal;
• make sure that issues about publication ethics, research ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered;
• ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.

General article requirements and technical text preparation

• Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development is the open access and non-profit enterprise. There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.
• Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development publishes articles solely in English.
• The length of articles should not exceed 12 printed pages of the A4 format, including graphics and tables.
• Text should be typed using Times New Roman 12 pts font and 1.5 interline spacing. Text fragments can be distinguished using italics or bold type. However, letters, words or sentences must not be underlined.
• Figures, photographs, charts (in grayscale) and tables should be numbered consecutively. The size of a figure must not exceed the B5 format (12.5 × 19.5 cm). Figures and tables can be placed near their reference in the basic text.

Article layout

This journal uses double-blind review, which means the identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. To facilitate this, please include the following separately.

Title page

• Title of article
• Author’s name (first name and surname) and first author’s ORCID number
• Name of scientific institution (affiliation)
• Acknowledgements. If applicable, collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references. List here those individuals and/or organisations that provided help, including financial support, during the research.
• Conflicts of Interest statement:All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
• Source of financing- Please provide information about the source of financing of the manuscript.
• Authors’ contributions to the paper.

Main text

Please remove any identifying information, such as authors' names or affiliations, from the main text before submission.

• Title of article
• Abstract (max. 200 words) – structured abstract is applied. It refers to all consecutive sections of the article, i.e.  introduction, research materials and methods used in the article and contains the most significant research findings and conclusions.
• Key words (max. 6)
• Main text should contain: Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Tables and figures. Please download (Example) for more detailed description of the requested sections. Full legend describing the figure and explaining all the symbols used must be pasted below respective figures. An excess of headings and subheadings should be avoided. Only generic and specific names should be set in italics. Any issue not covered by the present instruction should be resolved based on the APA system and the scientific style and format. The CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers [1994, Cambridge Univ. Press].
• References: When making reference to other authors’ publications, the name and year must be provided in parentheses in chronological order (Kowalski 2005, Nowak 2007) or ... according to Kowalski (2005). References must be listed in alphabetical order under the APA standards (http://www.apastyle.org), and include DOI number in the form given below:

Journal article
Ladhari, R., Tchetgna, N.M. (2015). The Influence of Personal Values on Fair Trade Consumption. J. Clean. Prod., 87, 469–477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.10.068

Book
Finney, J. (1970). Time and again. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Edited book
Franks, A. (Ed.). (2005). Margaret Sanger's eugenic legacy: The control of female fertility. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

Chapter
Lawrence, J. A., Dodds, A. E. (2003). Goal-directed activities and life-span development. In J. Valsiner, K. Connolly (Eds.), Handbook of developmental psychology (pp. 517–533). London, England: Sage Publications.

Internet
Freakonomics (2010). E-ZPass is a life-saver (literally) [Blog post]. Retrieved from: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/e-zpass-is-a-life-saver-literally/

If no author
All 33 Chile miners freed in flawless rescue (2010). Retrieved from: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39625809/ns/world_news-americas/

Legal reference
Private Education Act, Rev. ed. Cap 247A (2011).

Note
All titles must be original (e.g. Polish, Latvian).
DOI number (digital object identifier) for all references is required (if exist).
Using the following template (link do Example) will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts.

Copyright Notice

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

There are no Article Processing Charges or any other publication charges.

Peer Review Process

Each manuscript is evaluated by editor-in-chief  (topic editor) and if the basic requirements are fulfilled the text is sent to be reviewed. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy and do not meet the standards of the journal or do not fit its scope will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the editor-in-chief and notified within 21 days.

Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review appointed from outside the Poznan University of Life Sciences, Scientific Board of Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development and Editorial Board. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with any of the institutions of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.

The double-blind review process is applied, where neither the Authors nor the Reviewers know each other’s identities. A review is a written document, which ends with a definite conclusion whether the article should be published or rejected. The following evaluation criteria and procedures are applied:

A: Accept after Minor Revisions:
The paper is in principle accepted after minor revision based on the reviewer’s comments. The Author receives a message about the positive review along with the Reviewers’ comments and is requested to resubmit the revised paper.

B: Reconsider after Major Revisions:
The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The article is sent back to the Author to make changes suggested by the Reviewers. The Author resends the corrected copy of the article with a point by point response to the Reviewers’ comments.  Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within a suitable time frame, and if necessary the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments The Editor-in-Chief makes a decision whether the article should be accepted for printing.

C: Reject:
The article is not accepted for publication and cannot be resent to the Editors.

The average time for the Submission until publication does not exceed 200 days. The reviewers are chosen based on their area of expertise. Every year a list of reviewers collaborating with the Editors is published in the last, fourth issue of the quarterly and on the website, when all the four issues of the journal have been sent to printing.

Editorial Policy

Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development is the open access and non-profit enterprise. There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

The double-blind review process is applied, where neither the Authors nor the Reviewers know each other’s identities.

Each manuscript is evaluated by editor-in-chief  (topic editor) and if the basic requirements are fulfilled the text is sent to be reviewed. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy and do not meet the standards of the journal or do not fit its scope will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review appointed from outside the Poznan University of Life Sciences, Scientific Board of Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development and Editorial Board. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with any of the institutions of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.

A review is a written document, which ends with a definite conclusion whether the article should be published or rejected.