1.
The purpose of Agrobiological Records is to publish
the original research papers, review articles,
clinical articles/case reports, and short
communications that contribute significantly to the
knowledge in the field of Agrobiological Sciences.
2. English is the official
language of this Journal.
3. Preference
will be given to original articles that develop new
concepts or experimental approaches and are not
merely repositories of scientific data.
4. Plagiarism/Similarity
Index: To verify originality, the submitted
manuscript will be checked by any originality
detection service. Keeping the Similarity Index <19%
and also the Similarity Index from any single source
<5% at the time of submission of the manuscript is
the responsibility of the authors; however, the
management of the Agrobiological Records will try to
examine it. If found, the manuscript is liable to be
rejected.
5. Writing
with AI: Articles will not be entertained if
there is an indication that the article was written
with the help of any artificial intelligence
program. Similarity of AI writing should be
<19%.
6. The
decision of acceptance/rejection of publication lies
with the Editor. His/her decision will be based on
the recommendations of the Editorial Board members,
and/or invited reviewers.
7. Manuscripts are not rejected except for
technical reasons/ethical issues, but authors would
be given a chance to improve poor English or
grammatical mistakes.
8. Authors can withdraw their manuscripts at
any stage from submission to acceptance; however, it
will be impossible once they are published online.
1.
Submission declaration and verification:
It is assumed that the submission of an
article to the Agrobiological Records has not been
published previously (except in the form of an
abstract in any seminar/conference proceedings, a
published lecture or academic thesis, (see
'Multiple, redundant or
concurrent publication'
for more information), that it is not under
consideration for publication elsewhere (with any
other journal), that its publication is approved by
all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the
responsible authorities where the work was carried
out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published
elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any
other language, including electronically without the
written consent of the copyright-holder.
2.
The major scientific accomplishment/novelty of the
study should be stated in the Cover Letter.
3.
Submission requires metadata
for all authors including their email address,
postal address, telephone/fax number along with
ORCiD (Open Research and Contributors
Identification). ORCiD allows the creation of unique
digital identifiers (ORCiD IDs) for the researcher,
facilitating international identification of the
researcher and his/her publications. Authors may
register themselves at
https://orcid.org/.
It is free.
4.
The author (s) is/are responsible for all the
statements and concepts contained in the manuscript.
5.
For the preparation of the manuscript, use the A4
page size and Times New Roman 12 with 1" margin on
all sides.
6.
Use 1.5 space throughout the text, including the
Abstract and References while Tables be arranged at
a single space.
7.
The pages must be numbered
serially on the lower right-hand corner, beginning
from the title page.
8.
All pages must have
continuous line numbering.
9.
Research articles must
contain the following sections: Title, Abstract
(about 250 words comprised of purpose of study,
methods, results, and conclusion) followed by 4-5
Keywords, Introduction (containing the respective
Literature review and rationale of the study),
Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion,
Conclusion.
10. Before
references, authors have to declare about funding
source(s), acknowledgement(s), conflicts of
interest, data availability, ethics
statement/ethical approval, authors' contributions,
and generative AI statements. Articles submitted to
Agrobiological Records must not have been
generated/written using Gen AI/DeepSeek; if it is
proved that the article was generated/written using
Gen AI/DeepSeek, the article will not be published.
11. Funding:
State funding source(s) with grant number and
sponsoring agency/organization. If you did not get
any financial support from any agency/organization,
write, "This study did not get any financial support
from any organization/agency."
12. Acknowledgment: Acknowledge
any colleague/professional who has contributed to
data analysis or language improvement, and any
organization.
13. Conflict of Interest (CoI):
All authors must declare any financial and
personal relationships with other people or
institutions/organizations that could unsuitably
affect their research work. Examples of potential
conflicts of interest include employment,
friendships or kinship relationships, consultancies,
stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony,
patent applications/registrations, and grants or
other forms of funding. All authors, including
those without competing interests to
declare, should create a declaration of competing
interest statement (which, where relevant, may
specify they have nothing to declare). If authors do
not have a CoI, then they must declare no potential
conflict of interest.
14. Data Availability: If
you have presented all the data in the article, then
write: All the data is available in the article.
Alternatively, if you cannot present all the data
and have additional information to share, write
"Data will be available upon request."
15. Ethics Statement:
State, like, the animal study was approved by the
Ethics Committee of the [insert name of
institute/University; approved vide number: ??
Dated: ??] and conducted in accordance with local
legislation and institutional requirements.
16. Author's Contribution:
ABC and CDE: Conceptualization, Formal
analysis, Methodology, Writing - review & editing.
XYZ and ADC: Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing
- review & editing. DXR and MNL: Investigation,
writing, review, and editing. AZV: Supervision,
Writing - original draft, Writing - review &
editing. MIV: Funding acquisition, Project
administration, Supervision, Writing - review &
editing.
17. Generative AI statement:
The authors declare that no Gen AI/DeepSeek
was used in the writing/creation of this manuscript.
18. Duplication of results in Tables/Figures
or in text is not allowed.
19. Review Articles could be comprised of
appropriate headings and subheadings.
20. Agrobiological Records encourages the use
of EndNote software (a commercial reference
management software package, used to manage
bibliographies and references when writing essays
and articles) for writing references. Only
references closely related to the author's work are
allowed for citation.
21. References:
Citations to journal's articles should be
cited in the text as Qasem (2019) or (Qasem 2019),
Daba and Mekonnen (2022), or (Daba and Mekonnen
2022), Degla et al. (2022) or (Degla et al. 2022).
The names of all authors should be written, and the
name of the Journal should be written in full in the
list of references. The list of references at the
end of the manuscript must be arranged
alphabetically, and each reference in the list must
appear in the following form:
Daba B and Mekonnen G, 2022.
Effect of row spacing and frequency of weeding on
weed infestation, yield components, and yield of
rice (Oryza sativa L.) in Bench Maji Zone,
Southwestern Ethiopia. International Journal of
Agronomy 2022: Article ID 5423576.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5423576
Degla LH, Kuiseu J, Olounlade
PA, Attindehou S, Hounzangbe-Adote MS, Edorh PA and
Lagnika L, 2022. Use of medicinal plants as
alternative for the control of intestinal
parasitosis: assessment and perspectives.
Agrobiological Records 7: 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.47278/journal.abr/2021.011
Qasem JR, 2019. Weed control in
tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Mill.) by new
biodegradable polypropylene sheets and other soil
mulching materials. Pakistan Journal of Agricultural
Sciences 56: 857-866.
https://doi.org/10.21162/PAKJAS/19.7451
Citation to books/book
chapter, monographs, proceedings, or thesis must
include: 1) author(s) or editor(s); 2) year of
publication, 3) title, 4) edition, 5) Publisher and
place of publication (city, country) and 6)
beginning and final page numbers of the relevant
chapter, as shown below:
Bewley JD and Black M, 1994.
Seeds: Physiology of Development and Germination,
2nd Ed. Plenum Press, New York, USA.
Hafez MF, 2015. Enteric
disorder in poultry: a never-ending story.
Proceedings of
"International Seminar on Poultry
Diseases", University of Agriculture, Faisalabad,
Pakistan, 14-15 Dec 2015, pp: 53-61.
Hansen B, 1991. New York
City epidemics and history for the public. In:
Harden VA, Risse GB, editors. AIDS and the
historian. Bethesda: National Institutes of Health;
pp: 21-28.
Soomro AH, Raunaq S, Sheikh SA and Khaskheli M,
2015. Assessment of microbial quality of farm
buffalo milk. Proceedings of 8th Asian
Buffalo Congress, Istanbul, Turkey; 21-25 April
2015, pp: 46.
Tolley NJ, 2010. Functional
analysis of a reticulon protein from Arabidopsis
thaliana. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
Wells A, 1999. Exploring the
development of the independent, electronic,
scholarly journal. Master's Thesis, The University
of Sheffield.
22. Figures
and Tables should be kept to a minimum.
All the figures and tables must be referred to in
the text where appropriate.
23. Illustrations,
graphs, and photographs will be named as Figures;
identified by Arabic numerals like Fig. 1, Fig. 2,
etc.... The figures are supplied as digitized in
.JPG, .JPEG, .TIF, or .TIFF with at least 300 dpi.
24. Tables
must be identified by Arabic numerals like Table 1,
Table 2, etc, and must not exceed one page (A4 size)
and be arranged after the reference section;
however, they must be separated.
25. A
completely ready manuscript may be submitted through
the submission system (Submissions).
Get registered first and get password; then
follow the instructions given via the submission
system or send the ready manuscript as an email
attachment to
editor@agrobiologicalrecords.com.
26. Any
type of inquiry can be submitted to the concerned
quarters via the system (contact-us).
27. Articles that are
not recommended for publication will be archived;
however, authors will be notified why the paper was
not approved.
28.
Changes to authorship: Authors are expected
to carefully consider the list and order of
authors before submitting their manuscript.
The management of "Agrobiological
Records" will stick to the
original list and order of authors provided at the
time of submission. However, if it is deemed
necessary, requests of such change should be
addressed to the Editor by the corresponding author
along with following information i) the reason for
the addition/deletion in author list or
re-arrangement in the list of authors, and ii)
written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all
authors that they agree with the addition, removal
or rearrangement. In the case of the addition or
removal of authors, this includes confirmation from
the author being added or removed. Only in
exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider
the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of
authors after the manuscript has been
accepted.
29. Proofs of
the accepted manuscript are sent to the
corresponding author for proofreading. The authors
are required to return within 72 hours.
30. No reprints will be
supplied to the authors. All articles are published
with Open Access and are therefore freely available
on the website (agrobiologicalrecords.com), allowing
for download without any cost.
It is a general principle of
scholarly publications; the Editor of the journal is
solely and independently responsible for deciding
which of the submitted articles to the journal shall
be published. In making this decision the Editor is
guided by policies of the journal's
Editorial Board and constrained by such legal
requirements in force regarding defamation,
copyright violation and plagiarism. An outcome of
this principle is the importance of the scholarly
archive as a permanent, historic record of the
scholarly publication. Articles that have been
published shall remain extant, exact and unaltered
as far as is possible. However, very occasionally
circumstances may arise where an article is
published that must later be retracted or even
removed.
Article Withdrawal
This clause of the policy is valid only for
In-Press Articles, which represent early
versions of articles and sometimes contain errors or
may have been accidentally submitted twice.
Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may
represent infringements of professional ethical
codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of
authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or
the like.
Article Retraction
This clause of the policy applies to the published
(In-Press/Archive) papers in the Agrobiological
Records that are found violating professional
ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus
claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of
data, or the like. The retraction of an article by
its authors or the editor under the advice of
members of the scholarly community has long been an
occasional feature of the learned world. Standards
for dealing with retractions have been developed by
a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this
best practice is adopted for article retraction by
the
Agrobiological Records. A retraction note titled
"Retraction: [article
title]" signed by the
authors and/or the editor is published in the
paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal
and listed in the contents list. In the electronic
version, a link is made to the original article. The
online article is preceded by a screen containing
the retraction note. It is to this screen that the
link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the
article itself. The original article is retained
unchanged save for a watermark on the (.pdf)
indicating on each page that it is
"retracted."
Article Removal: Legal limitations
In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to
remove an article from the online database. This
will only occur where the article is clearly
defamatory, or infringes others'
legal rights, or where the article is, or we have
good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a
court order, or where the article, if acted upon,
might pose a serious health risk. In these
circumstances, while the metadata (Title and
Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced
with a screen indicating the article has been
removed for legal reasons.
Corrigendum
Corrigendum can be issued if any major error/mistake is found in
the text/tables/or figures of the manuscript.
Changes in the sequence of Authors,
addition/deletion of authors are not allowed after
acceptance, nor a corrigendum will be issued for
changes in the sequence of Authors, corresponding
Author(s), and their affiliations.
Modified: 25
September 2025