INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS (January 2016) [608391]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS (January 2016)
Scope of the Journal
The Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry is published electronically 6 times a year by the Scientific and
Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). It publishes, in English, full-length original research papers and
solicited review articles on advances in agronomy, horticulture, plant breeding, plant protection, plant molecular biology and biotechnology, soil science and plant nutrition, bionergy and energy crops, irrigation, agricultural technologies,
plant-based food science and technology, forestry, and forest industry products. Review articles are only accepted upon
invitation by the editorial board and will still be subject to the same review process required of regular submissions.
Manuscripts must be based on original research and contain novel findings of general significance. Studies that: 1) merely
confirm known facts in just another species or materials or collected materials from fields or markets; 2) are only of local
interest; 3) are based on surveys, material collection, or economic data, and/or are related to planning and policy; or 4)
report new records and taxonomy are outside the scope of the journal and will normally not be considered for publication.
Submission Process
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via the Internet to the Turkish Journal of Agriculture and
Forestry through the online system for TÜBİTAK journals at http://online.journals.tubitak.gov.tr/login.htm?TAR . Y ou
will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. There are no page charges.
Papers are accepted for publication on the understanding that they have not been published and are not going
to be considered for publication elsewhere. Authors should certify that neither the manuscript nor its main contents
have already been published or submitted for publication in another journal. The copyright release form, which can
be found at http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/genel/copyright.pdf , must be signed by the corresponding author on behalf
of all authors and must accompany all papers submitted. Please see the form for additional copyright details. After a
manuscript has been submitted, it is not possible for authors to be added or removed or for the order of authors to be
changed. If authors do so, their submission will be cancelled.
Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review by the editor-in-chief if they do not comply with the instructions
for authors or if they are beyond the scope of the journal. After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, i.e.
after referee-recommended revisions are complete, the author will not be permitted to make changes that constitute departures from the manuscript that was accepted by the editor. Before publication, the galley proofs are always sent to the authors for corrections. Mistakes or omissions that occur due to some negligence on our part during final printing
will be rectified in an errata section in a later issue. This does not include those errors left uncorrected by the author
in the galley proof.
The use of someone else’s ideas or words in their original form or slightly changed without a proper citation is
considered plagiarism and will not be tolerated. Even if a citation is given, if quotation marks are not placed around words taken directly from another author’s work, the author is still guilty of plagiarism. Reuse of the author’s own
previously published words, with or without a citation, is regarded as self-plagiarism. All manuscripts received are
submitted to iThenticate ®, a plagiarism checking system, which compares the content of the manuscript with a vast
database of web pages and academic publications. Manuscripts judged to be plagiarised or self-plagiarised, based on
the iThenticate ® report or any other source of information, will not be considered for publication.
Preparation of Manuscript
Style and format: Manuscripts should be double-spaced with 3-cm margins on all sides of the page, in Times New
Roman font. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. All
copies of the manuscript should also have line numbers starting with 1 on each consecutive page. Manuscripts must
be written in English. Contributors who are not native English speakers are strongly advised to ensure that a colleague fluent in the English language or a professional language editor has reviewed their manuscript. Concise English without jargon should be used. Repetitive use of long sentences and passive voice should be avoided. It is strongly
recommended that the text be run through computer spelling and grammar programs. Either British or American
spelling is acceptable but must be consistent throughout. To speed up processing, authors are strongly recommended to use the manuscript template file provided.

Symbols, units, and abbreviations: In general, the journal follows the conventions of Scientific Style and
Format, The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, Council of Science Editors, Reston, V A, USA (7th
ed.). If symbols such as ×, µ, η, or ν are used, they should be added using the Symbols menu of Word. Degree symbols (°) must be used from the Symbol menu, not superscripted letter o or number 0. Multiplication symbols must be used (×), not the letter x. Spaces must be inserted between numbers and units (e.g., 3 kg) and between
numbers and mathematical symbols (+, –, ×, =, <, >), but not between numbers and percent symbols (e.g., 45%).
Please use SI units. All abbreviations and acronyms should be defined at first mention. Latin terms such as et al., in vitro, or in situ should not be italicised.
Manuscript content: Research articles should be divided into the following sections. Principal sections
should be numbered consecutively (1. Introduction, 2. Materials and methods, etc.) and subsections should be numbered 1.1., 1.2., etc. Do not number the Acknowledgements or References sections. The total number of
double-spaced pages of the Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, and Discussion must not
exceed 16.
Title and contact information
The first page should contain the full title in sentence case not exceeding 15 words (e.g., Effect of irrigation
on processing tomato yield and antioxidant components), the full names (last names fully capitalised) and
affiliations (in English) of all authors (Department, Faculty, University, City, Country), and the contact e-mail
address for the clearly identified corresponding author.
Abstract
The abstract should provide clear information about the research and the results obtained, and should not
exceed 300 words. The abstract should not contain citations.
Key words
Please provide no more than 6 key words or phrases to enable retrieval and indexing. Acronyms should be
avoided.
IntroductionThis should argue the case for your study, outlining only essential background, and should not include the
findings or the conclusions. It should not be a review of the subject area, but should finish with a clear statement
of the question being addressed.
Materials and methods
Please provide concise but complete information about the materials and the analytical and statistical
procedures used. This part should be as clear as possible to enable other scientists to repeat the research presented.
Brand names and company locations should be supplied for all mentioned equipment, instruments, chemicals,
etc.
Results
The same data or information given in a Table must not be repeated in a Figure and vice versa. It is not
acceptable to repeat extensively the numbers from Tables in the text or to give lengthy explanations of Tables or
Figures.
Discussion
Statements from the Introduction and Results sections should not be repeated here. The final paragraph
should highlight the main conclusions of the study. The Results and Discussion sections may be combined.
Acknowledgements and/or disclaimers, if any
Names of funding organisations should be written in full.
References
References should be cited in the text by the last name(s) of the author(s) and year of publication with a
comma between them: for example, (Knott, 1987) or (Cochran and Cox, 1957). If the citation is the subject of the

sentence, only the date should be given in parentheses: “ According to Knott (1987)… ” For citation of references
with 3 or more authors, only the first author’s name followed by et al. (not italicised) should be used: (Güneș et
al., 2002). If there is more than one reference in the same year for the same author, please add the letters a, b, etc. to the year: (Jones et al., 2004a, 2004b). References should be listed in the text chronologically, separated by
semicolons: (Knott, 1987; Güneș et al., 2002; Jones et al., 2004a, 2004b). Do not include personal communications,
unpublished data, websites, or other unpublished materials as references, although such material may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. In the case of publications in languages other than English, the published English title should be provided if one exists, with an annotation such as “(article in Turkish with an abstract in English)” . If the publication was not published with an English title, provide the original title only; do not provide a self-translation. References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the text without numbering. All authors should be included
in reference lists unless there are 10 or more, in which case only the first 10 should be given, followed by ‘et al. ’ . The manuscript should be checked carefully to ensure that the spellings of the authors’ names and the years are
exactly the same in the text as given in the reference list. References should be formatted as follows (please note the punctuation and capitalisation):
Journal articles: Journal titles should be abbreviated according to ISI Web of Science abbreviations.
Tonguç M, Erbaș S (2012). Evaluation of fatty acid compositions and seed characters of common wild plant
species of Turkey. Turk J Agric For 36: 673-679.
Tuna M, Vogel KP , Arumuganathan K, Gill KS (2001). DNA content and ploidy determination of bromegrass
germplasm accessions by flow cytometry. Crop Sci 41: 1629-1634.
Books
Dole JM, Wilkins HF (2005). Floriculture: Principles and Species. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA:
Prentice Hall.
Kramer PJ, Boyer JS (1995). Water Relations of Plants and Soils. 1st ed. San Diego, CA, USA: Academic Press.
Chapters in booksCook E, Shiyatov S, Mazepa V (1990). Estimation of the mean chronology. In: Cook E, Kairiukstis LA, editors.
Methods of Dendrochronology: Applications in the Environmental Sciences. 1st ed. Boston, MA, USA: Kluwer, pp.
123-132.
Conference proceedings
Dobermann A (2007). Nutrient use efficiency – measurement and management. In: Krauss A, Isherwood K,
Heffer P , editors. Proceedings of the IFA International Workshop on Fertilizer Best Management Practices, 7–9
March 2007; Brussels, Belgium. Paris, France: International Fertilizer Industry Association, pp. 1-28.
Theses
Tefon BE (2012). Towards whole cell immunoproteome and subproteomes of Bordetella pertussis . PhD, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Tables and FiguresAll illustrations (photographs, drawings, graphs, etc.), not including tables, must be labelled “Figure. ” Figures
must be submitted both in the manuscript and as separate files.
All tables and figures must have a caption and/or legend and be numbered (e.g., Table 1, Figure 2), unless there
is only one table or figure, in which case it should be labelled “Table” or “Figure” with no numbering. Captions must
be written in sentence case (e.g., Macroscopic appearance of the samples.). The font used in the figures should be
Times New Roman. If symbols such as ×, µ, η, or ν are used, they should be added using the Symbols menu of Word.
All tables and figures must be numbered consecutively as they are referred to in the text. Please refer to tables
and figures with capitalisation and unabbreviated (e.g., “ As shown in Figure 2… ” , and not “Fig. 2” or “figure 2”). The
tables and figures themselves should be given at the end of the text only, after the references, not in the running text.
The resolution of images should not be less than 118 pixels/cm when width is set to 16 cm. Images must be
scanned at 1200 dpi resolution and submitted in jpeg or tiff format.

Graphs and diagrams must be drawn with a line weight between 0.5 and 1 point. Graphs and diagrams with
a line weight of less than 0.5 point or more than 1 point are not accepted. Scanned or photocopied graphs and
diagrams are not accepted.
Charts must be prepared in 2 dimensions unless required by the data used. Charts unnecessarily prepared in
3 dimensions are not accepted.
Figures that are charts, diagrams, or drawings must be submitted in a modifiable format, i.e. our graphics
personnel should be able to modify them. Therefore, if the program with which the figure is drawn has a “save as” option, it must be saved as *.ai or *.pdf. If the “save as” option does not include these extensions, the figure must be copied and pasted into a blank Microsoft Word document as an editable object. It must not be pasted as an image file (tiff, jpeg, or eps) unless it is a photograph.
Tables and figures, including caption, title, column heads, and footnotes, must not exceed 16 × 20 cm and
should be no smaller than 8 cm in width. For all tables, please use Word’s “Create Table” feature, with no tabbed
text or tables created with spaces and drawn lines. Please do not duplicate information that is already presented in
the figures.
Tables must be clearly typed, each on a separate sheet, and double-spaced. Tables may be continued on another
sheet if necessary, but the dimensions stated above still apply.
Correspondence Address
Manuscripts can only be submitted through our online system. Other correspondence may be directed to:E-mail: agric@tubitak.gov.tror
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
TÜBİTAK, Akademik Dergiler MüdürlüğüAkay Caddesi, No. 6
Bakanlıklar 06420, Ankara, Turkey