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The journal publishes papers covering the areas of focus. Manuscript in English should be prepared with Times New Roman (Font 12) in 1.5-spaced typing with margins of 1 inch right round on A4 paper. The title of the paper should be short and concise (preferably < 20 words) and should be reflective of its content. Author’s name (surname, followed by initials) should be written below the title. This should be followed by the author’s affiliations with full address. Papers should contain an Abstract that is not more than 250 words. Key words not exceeding five words different from those in the title should be written below the Abstract. Thereafter, papers should be subdivided into the following five headings: INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, and CONCLUSION(S); with an option to merge the third and the fourth headings as RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Sub-headings and sub-sub-headings, where applicable, should also be in bold fonts; the first letter of key words should be capitalised for sub-headings but not for sub-sub-headings.
Units of measurement of variables (including compound units) should be separated from numeric values and compound units should not be written as t/ha or tha–1 but as t ha–1, for example. Please note in this unit the use of a minus sign instead of a hyphen sign. Conversely, a range should be written as, for example, 7-10 g and not as 7g-10 g or 7 – 10 g. Tables should be prepared using an inserted Table template of Microsoft Word with the caption of the table and footnote (if any) occupying the first and the last merged rows, respectively of the inserted table. Figures (including photographs) must be well edited to be legible in black and white, and should have its caption placed below it. Numbering for tables/figures should be in Arabic numerals with a colon (in bold font up to the colon) introducing a short descriptive caption of the table/figure (not in bold font), e.g., Table 1: Fruit yield of okra …, Figure 3: Live weight of pigs …, etc. Any footnotes to tables/figures should be in font 11 and single-spaced. Tables/Figures should be supplied at the end of text and/or as separate files depending on their format. For example, figures that are prepared as JPEG/TIF files should, in addition to being placed at the end of text, be supplied as such. Literature cited in the text must be given by the author’s name with the year of publication and must be well punctuated, e.g., Uguru et al. (2003) noted that cucumber …. The responses of grain sorghum to soil and water management practices have been reported (Chiroma et al., 2006; Obalum et al., 2011).
After ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (if any), all retrievable REFERENCES should be listed alphabetically (by the authors’ surnames) with a hanging indentation. If the citing of an organization that is deemed popular is made in the body of the paper using the abbreviated form of the organization’s name, the listing of such citation in the REFERENCES should start with the abbreviation as used in the body of the paper and not the full name of organization. Similarly, if the citing is done using the organization’s full name, the listing should start with the full name and not the abbreviated form of the organization’s name. A typical example is the citing of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Please note that only standard abbreviations of titles of journals and other periodicals are allowed, otherwise such titles should be written in full. Examples of formatting for the REFERENCES are as follows:
Articles in Journals:
Chiroma A.M., Folorunso O.A. and Alhassan A.B. (2006). Soil water conservation, growth, yield and water use efficiency of sorghum as affected by land configuration and wood-shavings mulch in semi-arid northeast Nigeria. Exp. Agric., 42, 199-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479705003376
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
Ugwu V.U., Nnadi A.L., Adubasim C.V., et al. (2020). Organic-waste aerator could completely displace poultry-droppings manure in nursery media based on coarse-textured soil: evidence with cashew seedlings. In: Baiyeri K.P. and Aba S.C. (eds.), Sustainable Horticulture Production System Intensified (pp. 941-951), Proc. 38th Ann. Conf. Hort. Soc. Nigeria, Univ. of Nigeria Nsukka, 25-31 Oct. 2020
Books:
Leopold A.C. (1989). Plant Growth and Development 2nd ed. (page or page range; for instance, p. 37 or pp. 55-60, respectively), Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi (where page range is not indicated, number of pages should be written, for instance, as 567 pp.)
Book Chapters:
Thomas G.W. (1996). Soil pH and soil acidity. In: Sparks D.L., Page A.L., Helmke P.A. et al. (eds.), Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 3: Chemical Methods (pp. 475-490). Madison WI: Soil Science Society of America Book Series No. 5
NOTE: 1. A DOI, where applicable to the cited article, as is the case with Chiroma et al. (2006) above, must be included.
- For up to seven authors, the first three should be listed without ‘and’ between the 2nd and the 3rd, followed by et al., as is the case with Ugwu et al. (2020) above.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT Manuscripts duly prepared should be duplicated into a blind copy and a copy with the authors’ information and Acknowledgments, if any. The blind copy should be assigned continuous line numbers. All submissions should be done electronically at www.agro-sciencejournal.com after creating an account with the Journal on this webpage. A manuscript processing fee of N12,000, $40 and $50 is to be paid by contributors from within Nigeria, other countries in Africa and countries outside Africa, respectively into the following bank account of the Journal:
Account Name: Agro-Science; Account Number: 2002101998;
Account Type: Current Bank: First Bank of Nigeria Ltd.
At the point of uploading the manuscript of their paper, the submitting author would be requested to upload evidence of payment of this fee as a compulsory part of the submission process; therefore, the author is advised to make this payment ahead of time and get the scanned or photographed evidence of payment ready for uploading. Also, an article publication charge of N45,000 and $200 applies for accepted articles from within and outside Nigeria, respectively, payable into the same account above. All payments are made by money transfer or in cheque. Galley proofs of accepted papers as typeset by the publisher are sent to the corresponding author for final checking before publication. Inquiries should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief (sunday.obalum@unn.edu.ng) and/or the Secretary of Editorial Board (felix.amuji@unn.edu.ng).
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