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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 authors are requested to carefully read 'About the Journal' and its 'Aims and Scope' and adhere to the 'Author Guidelines' and 'Journal Policies' prior to making the submissions.
  • Ensure that the work has not been published before and not under consideration for publication with other journals.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format
  • Manuscripts must be in English (British/ American) and References have been provided adhering to the standards of APA Referencing Style
  • Show informed consent and provide assurances that participants’ rights are protected
  • All co-authors meet criteria for authorship and appropriate acknowledgments have been made in the manuscript
  • Relevant funding statements have been included in the manuscript if any
  • Registered for clinical trials or ethical clearances and provide the documents if applicable (Explain how animals used to research is conducted responsibly)
  • Be alert to bias and follow the journal guidelines for accurate and complete reporting of research

Author Guidelines

Thank you for choosing KnowEx Food & Agriculture to submit your paper. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production, and publication smoothly.

Please make sure that you have carefully read 'About the Journal' and its 'Aims and Scope' and adhere to the 'Author Guidelines' and 'Journal Policies' prior to making the submissions.

 

Refer below complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal.

Preparing Your Paper

Submission Process

Reviewing & Publication Process

Author Declaration Form

Copyright Notice

Privacy Statement

 

Preparing Your Paper

Structure

Your paper should be compiled in the following order:

Title page

Abstract (unstructured abstract of 150 words) with Keywords (3 and 5 keywords)

Introduction

Materials and Methods,

Results

Discussion

Acknowledgments

Declaration

Conflict of interest statement

References

Appendices (as appropriate)

Tables and figures can be included within the text according to the requirement (Tables and figures should have captions).

Author Details

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other.

Thus authors of the document have deleted their names from the text. Author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file.

Word Limits

The target length for an article is 3,000–5,000 words (excluding figures, tables and references). Articles should not exceed 6,500 words including abstract, endnotes, tables, figures, figure captions or legends, references, acknowledgments and appendices.

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word format. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).

<< Download the Word Template >>

Please note that, the template is provided for original research papers. Authors can follow respective formats for review articles, book reviews, commentaries.

References

Please use the APA Referencing Style when preparing your paper.

Submission Process

Steps for Submission:

  1. 1) Click on “Make a submission”
  1. 2) Then click on “Register” to register yourself as an author. Fill the relevant fields seen in the screen and create the account.

The username should start and end with alphanumeric characters and include only lowercase letters.

If already registered, can simply “Log in” (using your username and password) and begin the five-step process.

  1. 3) Afterwards, click on “Make New Submission”in the bullet list that appears.
  1. 4) Follow the below steps that appear in the window and complete your submission

 

Step 1 - Start

Check the check-list after making sure the manuscript complies with the list. Tick other compulsory items in the check -ist and save and continue

Step 2 – Upload your submission

Select article type and upload your manuscript. Manuscript must be in MS Word format. No other formats are accepted.

Complete step two and click save and continue.

Step 3 – Enter Metadata

Meta data entered should be accurate. Title, Abstract, List of contributors, Keywords and References (Reference list) are musts.

Add contributors option can be used to add co-authors if there are any. If available, please include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn).

One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If you are the corresponding author for the manuscript please tick, “Principal contact for editorial correspondence”. All editorial correspondences will be handled with this author.

If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.

Save changes and press save and continue.

Step 4 – Confirmation

Click “Finish submission” to complete the submission

Reviewing & Publication Process

1) After a successful submission, the manuscript will be subjected to double-blind peer-review process.

2) Upon the completion of reviewing process, the review reports are sent to the authors to make respective revisions.

3) The revised manuscripts are screened by the editor and the decision authority to “Accept” or “Reject” of a manuscript will be taken by the editor. If a manuscript is “Accepted”, the manuscript is processed for publication. If a manuscript is rejected, the authors are informed of the decision and no further processing is done on the manuscript.

4) Accepted manuscript will be published after receiving the camera-ready version of the manuscript along with author confirmation through the signed Author Declaration Form.

 

Author Declaration Form

Manuscripts are accepted for publication subject to the understanding that the journal has the right of first publication. Authors may be asked to make a statement of novelty regarding their submission, contribution of authors and other published work.

It is mandatory to sign and send the Author Declaration Form prior to the publication.

<< Download the Author Declaration Form >>

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Copyright Notice

KnowEx Food & Agriculture journal is entirely Open Access, which means that all published content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Authors who publish with journal agree to the following terms:

1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licensethat allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

3) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

 

Privacy Statement

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