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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • References are set according to Journal style, where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Statements like acknowledgements, funding statement, Author's contribution, conflict of interest are included at the end of article

Author Guidelines

Preparing the Article

Papers may be submitted in MS Word or LaTeX formats. Article, figures and tables should be saved in a single document. Font style is Times New Roman whereas all scientific names should be italicized.

  • Language: Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in English only.
  • Research Article
    Journal considers all original research articles that are technically sound and provide considerable new information for scientific community. A research article should typically contain the following elements: title page; abstract; keywords; main text (introduction; materials and methods, results and discussion, acknowledgments; declaration of conflict of interest statement; references). Table(s) with caption(s) and figures and figure captions should be merged in article where they are described. Total length of research article should not exceed 10 type pages with 50 references maximum.
  • Short Communication
    Short communications are short papers but containing significant information and data to be dispersed rapidly. Short communications may be limited to 3000 words or a maximum of 4 type set pages. Short communication in Journal Plantarum may have sections like in Research Article or it may be an simple form. Materials and methods of short communication should be provided as supplementary data.
  • Reviews
    Journal Plantarum invites high quality analytical and critical review with a broad range of topics of Plant Sciences. Review articles may be written in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text, discussion; conclusion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references. Review articles should not contain more than 100 references.
  • Letter to Editors
    A letter to editor may be considering any one of these
    1. A reanalysis of already published article in Journal Plantarum
    2. An emerging issue of research interest lying within the scope of J. Plantarum
    3. A brief report of research finding of public interest and scope of J. Plantarum
  • Research Brief

Research brief is a non-technical and short summary of an article that may include a report of analytical technique, a short case study or a snapshot of an emerging issue.

  1. Arrangement: The different sections of the paper must be arranged as follows.

Title: The title should be concise and informative. All capitals (Font Size 12), bold and center aligned. Authors Information: Title should be followed by complete name (s) of authors in all capitals with center alignment and Font size 10 and bold. In case of more than one authors with different Institutions, use numbering in superscripts to separate the author's affiliation. Use * for corresponding author. Next to Authors name list, there must be affiliations of authors and Email address/s of corresponding author (font size 10, center aligned, not bold, and italicized).

Abstract: A short and comprehensive abstract (Not more than 300 words) should be provided including research problem, hypothesis, objective, brief methodology, important findings and conclusion (font size 9). Graphical abstract can be submitted also (600 dpi).

Key words: Appropriate 6-10 Key words should be given after abstract (alphabetically arranged and font size 10)

Highlights

Research highlights can be submitted (optional). Highlights should be submitted separately and should be in bullets (3-5) and word count should not exceed 150 words limit.

Introduction: Must contain research background, research problem to be addressed, valid hypothesis to be tested and objective. All the section of introduction must be justified properly by comprehensive and latest literature (font size 10).

Materials and Methods: This section must contain all the details of the laboratory and field studies. In case of agriculture data of at least two years must be included. However, data of one year will be acceptable if the experiments are conducted at two different sites (font size 10). Methods that are already published must be summarized with proper citation.

Result and Discussion: This part may be in a single section as "Results and Discussion" or if necessary, can be split into separate "Results" and "Discussion" sections. Avoid to make subsections however, if necessary, subheadings can be used in this section. Discussion should be logical and results must be discussed in the light of previous finding (preferably recent ones) justifying your findings (font size 10).

Nomenclature Scientific plant names must be used in accordance with the International Code of Nomenclature of algae, fungi and plants. In taxonomic studies, author’s names of all taxa should be provided as standardized by the International Plant Names Index. Resourceful link may be like

https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=521671

Conclusions: It can be given in a separate heading or a short paragraph containing important conclusions of the study

Conflict of Interest: All the authors have to declare conflict of interest if there is any. The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

References: References must be arranged alphabetically and stick to the Journal format. In the text reference should be mentioned in the following ways In case of one author should be cited as Erin, 2018. Use of a citation software like Endnote should be preferred.

In case of two authors in parenthesis, both authors must be separated with "and" (e.g. Khalid and Khan, 2019). In case of publications of more than two authors, the name of first author should be followed by et al. (e.g. Khan et al., 2017).

In case of two or more citations in the text, the citation must be arranged in chronological order (Khan, 2009; Ali & Murai, 2010; Zeb et al., 2012, Wang, 2014).

The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the Thomson Reuters Journal List (Journals in the 2018 Release of Journals).

In case of more than one publication by the same author in the same year, the references must be separated by a, b, c etc (e.g. Khan et al., 2018a, 2018b)

Journal article:
Micheal, C.H. 2017. The role of biosynthesis of Thymoquinones in vascular plants. J. Exp. Bot., 52: 1145-1164.

Sana, K. and R. Rehana. 2018. Dynamics of the antioxidant system during seed osmo priming, post-priming germination, and seedling establishment in Spinach (Amaranthaceae). Plant. Sci., 180(2): 212-220.

Sana, F., F. Khan, M. Zeb and R. Rehana. 2018. Taxonomy and species association of grass species in response to altitudinal gradient in the Potohar region. Pak. J. Bot., 50(1): 41- 49.

Book
Brow, E. J. H. 2017. The Seed biology. Vol: 1. Cambridge University Press, Britain.

Book Chapter
Aliya, S.M. 1994. Nutrient uptake by plants under salt stress conditions. In: Parasad, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress.xxxxxx, Pakistan, pp. 227-246.

Edited Book

Ali, S.I. and M. Qaiser (Eds.). 2001. Flora of Pakistan. 205. University of Karachi, Karachi

Articles

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Copyright Notice

These guidelines will help establish a clear and transparent copyright policy that protects the rights of authors while maximizing the accessibility and usability of research findings. Implementing such policies ensures the integrity and usability of scholarly work.

Journal Plantarum follows an open-access publishing policy and all articles are free to access. Any submission to Journal Plantarum must be original, that is, neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere. On acceptance of a manuscript, the corresponding author on the behalf of all co-authors will sign and submit a Copyright and Author Consent Form. The author(s) shall be solely responsible for any information written/informed/reported in the submitted manuscript. It is the author's responsibility to obtain signed permission from the copyright holder to use and reproduce text, illustrations, tables, etc., published previously in other journals, electronic or print media. If any material (Figure/Table/map etc.) is taken from other copyrighted material, should have prior permission to use it in their publication. Articles can be reproduced, distributed, derived and may be used commercially_ provided the original work is properly cited. Author(s) possess the full rights of their published articles.

Authors have certain rights to reuse their work

 

  1. Authors have trademark and patent rights
  2. Authors retain the right to reuse their own published material to fully acknowledging their original work
  3. Authors can reuse and share their work for scholarly purposes, in class room teachings, in conferences, in research theses
  4. Authors can publically share the final published article.

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