Submissions

Author Guidelines

User Registration in the journal 

How to register in the Journal of Soil, Plant and Environment. It is easy to register in our journal. 1st click on the register in the top corner and put your all information in the boxes. To put a username, don't use any capital alphabet. Click to watch the video How to register in the Journal of Soil, Plant, and Environment 

 Files 

1. Title page:  Title, Author names in order, Affiliations with full address and country name. Funding and Acknowledgement (if any). 
2. Manuscript: Abstract, Keywords, 1. Introduction, 3. Methodology, 4. Results 5.Discussion, Conclusions, References, Appendix. Results and Discussion are acceptable in one section. 
3. Cover Letter (Optional): Authors can prepare a separate file named cover letter. It must contain the statement: “The manuscript is not currently under consideration or has not been published in another journal.
4. Suggested Reviewers: A separate word file should be added which includes three suggested reviewers, their emails and affiliations.

1. Manuscript Preparation

Cover Letter

A precise cover letter is mandatory with the submission of a new manuscript. A cover letter has to give details as to why the submitted manuscript is appropriate for publication in the Journal of Soil, Plant and Environment and to explain the significance of the work done. Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: cover letter; title page; abstract; main text; acknowledgements; declaration of interest statement (if applicable); appendices (as suitable); references; tables with captions and figures; figure captions (as a list).

2. Manuscript style

The manuscripts have to be typed in double space with Arial font of size 11, line spacing 1.15and all margins should be ≥ 2.5 cm. Consecutive line numbering needs to be given throughout the manuscript.

2.1     Introductory material

The second page of the manuscript after the cover letter should contain the following items in the order given below:

• Title of the paper that clearly defines the area of research;
• Names of all authors with the given name following surname in full for every author and their affiliations including complete postal addresses and email address of the corresponding author;
• 4–6 keywords (in alphabetical order), which reflect the key area of research (do not repeat words in the title);
• if the paper is based on a presentation on a meeting or similar, a footnote must be given with the date (name of the month spelled out), place, and title of the meeting;
• a footnote must also be given if the contribution is based on another publication.

2.2     Abstract

For Research Articles, the third page of the manuscript should start with the abstract not exceeding 300 words, and clearly explain the research background, aims, methodology, results and conclusion. For Review Articles, Game Changers and Viewpoints abstracts may vary, but should not exceed 350 words. Although, for Short Communications, an abstract is limited to 500 words including spaces. Moreover, authors are appreciated to also submit a graphical abstract, consisting of a figure or file identified to highlight your article. The graphical abstract will be posted on social media to enhance the readership.

2.3     Main Text

Original articles

The body of the article should contain the following sections: introduction; methods; results; discussion; conclusions.

Introduction: This section should state the relevance and background to the study, and its rationale and purpose.

Methods: This section should contain all the information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was being written. You should describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants, identify the methods, apparatus and procedures in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results, and describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable acknowledgeable readers with access to the original data to verify the reported results.

Results: Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and figures. Where a new parameter is reported, the results should include proper heading as appropriate.

Discussion: This should include inferences/consequences of the findings and their limitations/justifications, with reference to all other relevant studies conducted previously or ongoing published results and the possibilities these suggestions for future research.

Conclusions: This must summarize the main paper. Ensure that extrapolations are reasonable and that conclusions are justified by the data presented, and indicate if the study design can be generalized to a broader study population.

Review article

It should be structured as follows: context, objective, methods (including data sources, study selection and data extraction), results and conclusion.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Author Contributions
Please, insert author contributions according with Redit (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). RediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to research outputs. More about Redit can be found at https://credit.niso.org/
Example of author contributions:

Conceptualization, G.E.D., S.E.G. and T.E.C.; methodology, G.E.D.; software, S.E.G.; formal analysis, G.E.D. and S.E.G.; writing—original draft preparation, G.E.D. and S.E.G.; writing—review and editing, T.E.C. and S.E.G. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
 Appendices - If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

Acknowledgments - Collate acknowledgments in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.).

Footnotes and abbreviations - Footnotes should be avoided. Abbreviations should also be avoided, except from exceptionally usual. If used, footnotes should only contain additional text (comment), and not information about sources used. The abbreviations stated in tables and pictures should be explained.

2.4     References

In the main text, references are to be quoted as name and year of publication such as: . . . by John (1952), Ali and Kaleem (1977), and Ali et al. (1980; 1984); or: (Cena, 1982; Sara and Tom, 1977; Rosov et al., 1980; Fateh et al., 1978) in chronological order within the text. References must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript under the heading “References” as the following examples of the style.

Journal articles

Ullah, S. Biochar coupled with contrasting nitrogen sources mediated changes in carbon and nitrogen pools, microbial and enzymatic activity in paddy soil. Journal of Saudi Chemical Society. (2020). 24(11), 835-849.

Ullah, S. and Jiang, L. Biochar coupled with contrasting nitrogen sources mediated changes in carbon and nitrogen pools, microbial and enzymatic activity in paddy soil. Journal of Saudi Chemical Society. (2020). 24(11).835-849.

Ullah, S. Liang, H. Ali, I. Zhao, Q. Iqbal, A. Wei, S. Shah, T. Yan, B. and Jiang, L. Biochar coupled with contrasting nitrogen sources mediated changes in carbon and nitrogen pools, microbial and enzymatic activity in paddy soil. Journal of Saudi Chemical Society. (2020). 24(11).835-849.

Books

Finck, A.  (1982): Fertilizers and Fertilization. VerlagChemie, Weinheim, Germany.

Chapters from multi-author books

Wold, S., Sjöström, M. (1977): Chemometrics, Theory and Application, in Kowalski, B. R. (ed.):

ACS Symposium Series. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 243–282.

Dissertation

Sabel-Koschella, U. (1988): Field studies on soil erosion in the southern Guinea Savanna of West Nigeria. PhD thesis, University of Munich, Germany.

Patents

Miller, B. O. (1952): U.S. Pat. 2542356, Dow Chemical Comp.; Chem. Abstr.51 (1961) 2870.

2.5     Acknowledgments

Acknowledgements of financial, logistic, physical, advice, or other kinds of assistance should be made at the end of the paper under the heading “Acknowledgments”.

2.6     Supplementary material

Supplementary material as appropriate can be published with your article to enhance it. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly as they are received (Excel or PowerPoint files will appear as such online).

Recommendation for Language Editing 

The Journal of Soil, Plant, and Environment has partnered with LetPub to recommend language editing support for authors prior to submission. For authors whose native language is not English, editorial support from LetPub is a useful pre-submission resource.