Author Guidelines

Information for Authors

HORTICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

General information:

Editorial team of the journal takes care of the high quality of published materials and takes action against neglecting of publication standards in the journal. All parties involved in the publishing process: the author(s), the editors of the scientific journal, the reviewers of the scientific work and the publisher are required to comply with ethical standards in scientific publications. For further details please check the Ethical Standards published on the Journal's website.

The following principles have been elaborated on the basis of the COPE Committee on Publication Ethics recommendations published in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers and the development of Best Practices in Review Procedures in Science.

1. The editorial team of the Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture welcomes original and previously not published scientific and review papers. The manuscripts should follow guidelines presented below, or else will be sent back to the author/s.
2. The papers should be submitted online at https://ahorticulture.sggw.pl.
3. The submitted manuscripts are qualified for publishing on the basis of their reviews. The reviewers are designated by the editor of a series.
4. The papers should be written in English (British or American spelling required). Before submission we advise to proofread the text by an English native speaker to ensure language accuracy. The editorial team reserves the right to return the manuscript if the language used does not meet the journal standards.
5. The manuscript should not exceed 12 pages of A4 paper size, including any illustrations, tables, references and the summary.
6. Pages should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript, with numbers placed on the right-hand side. All the lines should be numbered consecutively on the left-hand side.
7. Tables and diagrams should be placed at the end of the manuscript or submitted in separate files. Drawings and photographs must be submitted in separate files. The text should only indicate their suggested location.
8. For the printed version the manuscript may only contain black and white figures and the on-line version published on the Journal's website can include colour figures.
9. The manuscript should be accompanied by a date-stamped letter containing the following information:

a. a title of the paper, its authors with the indication of a corresponding author (address, phone number, e-mail address), as well as e-mail addresses of all authors
b. a brief explanation of the meaning and original nature of conducted research or project solutions,
c. a proposal for at least 2 potential reviewers who are not employees of SGGW; including one expert from abroad (including their contact details)
d. a declaration that findings presented have not been published before and are not being considered for publication in any other journal.
e. a “ghostwriting” declaration. Corresponding author should add information about the contribution of all authors of the manuscript concerning: (1) the conception, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising its critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2 and 3. See also “Ghostwriting” Policy.

10. Copyright and Licensing: The authors are allowed to publish under a Creative Commons license and posting of published article on third party repositories (e.g. the ResearchGate). See also “Licence”.
11. The text should contain the following elements:

FIRST PAGE:

Title of the paper

Names and surnames of authors with affiliations.
An asterisk in superscript should indicate the author for correspondence. The author’s phone number as well as e-mail address should be provided at the bottom of the page.

NEXT PAGES should contain:

Abstract: the abstract should be concise (not longer than 200 words) and contain information on the scope of research, method of its conducting, key findings and conclusions drawn on their basis.

Key words: the most essential key words helping the reader find a desired publication; on principle, there should be maximum 6 key words that do not repeat words already used in the title of the paper.

INTRODUCTION: in the introduction the authors present a research or project problem discussed and its relation to the most important, already published papers in this scope and specify the aim of and the reason for undertaking the research, its meaning in a given area and its original character.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: this chapter should include concise information on a research material, method of experimentation or project problem solving, indices under analysis and methodology applied. Detailed information on analytical methods should contain the titles of papers to which the authors refer. The details should also describe characteristic features of an experiment so that it can be repeated by other researchers. The final part of the chapter should present the method of results analysis, e.g. description of statistical tools used.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: depending on the nature of a given paper, the chapter may be divided into two separate parts or joined into a single paragraph. The results should be compared in a clear and concise way with those already published. The authors should also suggest their own interpretation/explanation, avoiding speculations exceeding the actual findings or comparisons not related to the subject matter of the research.

CONCLUSIONS: the chapter should present conclusions and final remarks of general nature formulated on the basis of research results or acquired while solving a research problem.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: acknowledgments to people and organisations that contributed to the process of drafting the paper should be presented before the REFERENCES part. This part should specify the full name of an organisation or a founder, e.g. This study was supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant no. 3P03C02824).

REFERENCES: the bibliography should not exceed 30 positions strictly connected with a problem under research, the results of which have been prepared for publishing. The authors should avoid references to popular or popular science papers and to findings of research that was not published. The cited literature should be described following the template below:

Articles:

Zizzari ZV, Braakhuis A, van Straalen NM, Ellers J (2009) Female preference and fitness benefits of mate choice in a species with dissociated sperm transfer. Anim Behav 78: 1261-1267

Articles with DOI assigned (applies to articles published in print and later published online with an assigned DOI):

Daugherty MP (2010). Host plant quality, spatial heterogeneity, and the stability

of mite predator–prey dynamics. Exp Appl Acarol. doi: 10.1007/s10493-010-9410-8

Book:

Thornhill R, Alcock J (2001)The evolution of insect mating system, 2nd edn. iUniverse.com, Inc., San Jose Blackwell, London

Chapter in a book:

Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257

On-line document:

Di Leonardo R  (2008) Random motion of bacteria could drive micromotors. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 18 December 2008

Doctoral thesis:

Nagelkerke CJ (1993) Evolution of sex-allocation strategies of pseudo-arrhenotokous predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Dissertation, University of Amsterdam

Any references in the text to the bibliography should include the surname of an author and the year of publication ordered by date of publication or, in the case of the same date, alphabetically. Such references should be given in square brackets [Kowalski et al., 2002; Nowak et al., 2002; Nowak, 2004; Nowak and Kowalski, 2010].

Abstract: Title in Polish. The abstract in Polish should fully correspond to the abstract in English (For the Polish Authors only).

TABLES and FIGURES: they should be numbered consecutively in the order of their citation in the text. Vertical lines should not be applied to tables. Each table should have its title. Any footnotes should be marked with a letter in superscript and explained under the table.

Drawings and photographs: they should be provided in the electronic form in 300 dpi resolution and a width of the base not exceeding 16 cm. The paper should be accompanied by source files containing illustrations (drawings, diagrams, schemes, photographs, etc.) in applications operating in the Windows environment (Excel, Photoshop, etc.)

Other detailed remarks

The authors should use the SI system of measurement units and other popularly used units and symbols. Compound units should be written according to the following formula: kg m^-2, nmol g^-1 FM (kg per square meter, nanomole per gram of fresh weight).

Names of organisms in Latin should be written according to terminology adopted in the fields of botany, zoology, etc. and, at the first citation, accompanied by their authors. Names of cultivated varieties should be given in inverted commas (‘Elstar’, ‘Etos F1’). 

Text formatting:

Font: Times New Roman CE

Line spacing: 1.5

Margins: all 2.5 cm

Title of paper –14 pt, font in bold [left aligned]

NAME AND SURNAME - 12 pt, normal font, capital letters [aligned as above]

Affiliation – 10 pt, normal font

Abstract: Title of paper

10 pt bold font         10 pt, italics

Abstract text – 10 pt, normal font  [text starts in the same line as the title]

Key words: list of key words

10 pt, italics             10 pt normal font

TITLES OF CHAPTERS – 12 pt, normal font, capital letters

Summary: Title in Polish

10 pt, font in bold            10 pt, italics

Summary text - 10 pt, normal font [text starts in the same line as the title]

Basic text – 12pt, normal font

References – 10 pt, normal font

Descriptions under illustrations:

FIGURE 1. Title of drawing or photograph

10 pt, normal font, capital letters                  10 pt, normal font

TABLE 1. Title of table

10 pt. normal font, capital letters,          10 pt, normal font

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