Submissions

Author Guidelines

General Information
Journal of Phytobiology (JPB) publishes original scientific papers, short communications, and up-to-date review articles from the disciplines concerned. The authors are fully responsible for the originality of the paper, its subject, and its formal correctness. The author's declaration that the paper has not been submitted anywhere else should be submitted at the time of paper submission. The Editorial Board decides on the publication of papers, taking into account peer reviews, scientific importance, and manuscript quality. Papers are published in English. Manuscripts must be grammatically and linguistically correct to avoid acceptance problems.

Conflict of Interest
Any conflict of interests must be declared.

Copyright
All the content of the articles is made freely available for non-commercial purposes, users are allowed to copy and redistribute the material, transform and build upon the material as long as the source is properly cited. Authors who opted for subscription mode must sign a copyright transfer agreement before the publication of their article.

Publisher reserves the copyright and any extensions or renewals of that term thereof throughout the world, including but not limited to publish, disseminate, transmit, store, translate, distribute, sell, republish and use the contribution and material contained therein in print and electronic form of the journal and other derivative works, in all languages and any form of media of expression available now or the future and to license or permit others to do so.

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Peer Review Process
The journal uses double-blind peer review, which means that both authors and reviewers are anonymous to each other throughout the review process. Peer-review process steps:

Manuscript Submission
when the corresponding author submits the manuscript to the journal. A manuscript number will be emailed to the corresponding author within 72 hours.

Editorial office assessment: the journal checks the manuscript's composition and arrangement against the Instructions to Authors.

Evaluation by the Editor-in-Chief (EIC): EIC checks that the manuscript is appropriate for the journal and is sufficiently original and interesting. If not, the manuscript may be rejected without being reviewed.

EIC may assign an Associate Editor (AE) who will handle the peer review.

Invitation to Reviewers: at least two reviewers are assigned by the Editor in Chief or theAssociate Editor to review a manuscript. As responses are received, further invitations are issued, if necessary, until at least 2 acceptances are obtained.

Response to invitations: potential reviewers consider the invitation against their expertise, conflicts of interest, and availability. They then accept or decline. If possible, when declining, they might also suggest alternative reviewers.

Review is conducted: If there are serious methodological errors, low levels of results, or missing discussions, the reviewer may feel comfortable rejecting the manuscript without further work. If there are minor deficiencies, we recommend marking them according to the lines. The review is then submitted to the journal, with a recommendation to accept (without change, minor revisions, major revisions, and second review) or reject it.

The handling editor (Editor or assigned Associate Editor) considers the returned reviews before making an overall decision. If the reviews differ widely, the Editor invites anadditional reviewer toget an extra opinion before making a decision. The editor decides on the publication of papers, taking into account peer reviews, scientific importance, and recommendations of the Editorial Board members.

The decision is communicated. The Executive Editor sends a decision email to thecorrespondence author including any relevant comments.

Next steps: If accepted, the manuscript is sent to production. If the article is rejected or sent back for either major or minor revision, the handling editor should include constructive comments from the reviewers to help the author improve the paper. If the paper was sent back to authors for revision, the reviewers should expect to receive a new version, unless they have opted out of further participation. However, where only minor changes were requested, this follow-up review might be done by the handling editor.

Types of Research Papers
As a rule, they should not exceed 6000 words (not including references and tables) and contain no more than ten tables and figures combined. Standard papers are divided into the following sections: Summary (not exceeding 250 words), and Keywords (not exceeding five and not appearing in the title); Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References. Some flexibility in the layout is allowed for papers that cannot be presented in conventional form. For instance, a combined Results and Discussion section is permitted.

Review papers
Review articles on specific subjects are invited. Review articlesare written based mostly on secondary data that is falling in line with the theme of thejournal. They are brief, yet critical discussions on a specific aspect of the subject concerned.Reviewsgenerally start with the statement of the problem with a brief abstract of 300 words and a few keywords. Introduction generally brings the issue forward to the readers followed by analytical discussion with the help of necessary tables, graphs, pictures and illustrations wherever necessary. It summarizes the topic with a conclusion. All the statements or observations in thereview articles must be based on necessarycitations, providing complete reference at the end of the article.

Commentaries
Commentaries are opinion articles written mostly by the veteran and experienced writers on a specific development, recent innovation,or research findings that fall in line with the theme of thejournal. They are very brief articles with the title and abstract that providethe gist of the topic to be discussed, with few keywords. It straight away states the problems and provides a thorough analysis with the help of the illustrations, graphs,and tables if necessary. It summarizes the topic with a brief conclusion, citing the references at the end.

Short communications
These are intended for reporting brief complete pieces of work, and not for preliminary results. Short communications should not exceed 2500 words and contain no more than six figures and tables combined. The text is not divided into sections, except for a short Summary, not exceeding 200 words, and Keywords, Acknowledgements,and References.

Disease notes
They are intended for new or unusual records in an abstract form of 250-300 words, with a maximum of three references. No figures are allowed.