The Egyptian Journal of Crop Protection (EJCP) publishes articles of original research concerning to plant pathology, insect, pest management, fungi, and nematodes. Research articles of parasites of vertebrate are also considered for publication. Review articles on important issues are also published. In a year, two issues of the journal, one in June and the other in December are published to form one volume.
Submission of Manuscript:
Electronic submission of manuscript should be made in the journal website (https://ejcp.journals.ekb.eg/) as it facilitates in quick publication process of reviewing and editing. Manuscript must be submitted according to the format and style of Egyptian Journal of Crop Protection.
Peer Review:
Manuscripts submitted for publication in Egyptian Journal of crop Protection are sent to two experts (National and International) for peer reviewing. Author will be informed concerning status of their manuscript after the completion of the review process (Accepted or not) by the Editor.
Research article:
The following style in the preparation of the manuscript should be strictly followed:
Manuscript should be in English, typed (12 font size, Times New Roman) in single column and double spaced. Author's institutional and e-mail addresses should follow author (s) name and will not appear as a foot note. Papers other than Short Communications may be organized under: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments (if any) and References.
Abstract:
written in past tense, one paragraph of no more than 1,300 spaces. It should be self-explanatory and intelligible in itself and include the rationale for the study, objectives and topics covered brief description of methods, results, and conclusions.
Key words:
key words no more than 6 words. Include words or short phrases that would be useful in index retrieval systems.
Introduction:
The Introduction should end with a statement of the overall and specific objectives of the research, and should not recapitulate the results.
Materials and Methods:
Materials and Methods section should provide sufficient detail to permit a skilled and knowledgeable researcher to repeat the work. Standard techniques can simply be cited, even if small modifications have been made. Authors are strongly encouraged to cite the primary sources of methods.
Results:
Results begin directly after Materials and Methods. written in the past tense , is to provide narrative support in which the actual results of the experiments are reported.
Discussion:
The discussion begins directly after Results. Discussion should provide the authors interpretation of the data, in context with the state of the art of the field presented in the Introduction. Authors should arrive at some conclusions and not merely repeat what was stated in the Results. Discussion should ordinarily not refer to figures or tables.
Ethics approval and consent to participate.
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must include:
- A statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived) the name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee’s reference number if appropriate.
- If your manuscript does not report on or involve the use of any animal or human data or tissue, please state “Not applicable” in this section.
Consent for publication
- If your manuscript contains any individual person’s data in any form (including individual details, images or videos), consent to publish must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. All presentations of case reports must have consent to publish.
You can use your institutional consent form if you prefer. You should not send the form to us on submission, but we may request to see a copy at any stage (including after publication).
- If your manuscript does not contain data from any individual person, please state “Not applicable” in this section.
Availability of data and materials
- All manuscripts must include an ‘Availability of data and materials’ statement. Data availability statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. By data we mean the minimal dataset that would be necessary to interpret, replicate and build upon the findings reported in the article. We recognise it is not always possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be compromised, and in such instances data availability should still be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for access.
- Data availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple datasets):
- The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS]
The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].
- The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due [REASON WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC] but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
- The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party name] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [third party name].
Not applicable.
- If your manuscript does not contain any data, please state 'Not applicable' in this section.
With the corresponding text in the Availability of data and materials statement:
- The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS].[Reference number]
Competing Interests
All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section.
If you are unsure whether you or any of your co-authors have a competing interest please contact the editorial office.
Please use the authors’ initials to refer to each authors' competing interests in this section.
If you do not have any competing interests, please state "The authors declare that they have no competing interests" in this section.
Funding
All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared. The role of the funding body in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript should be declared.
Authors' Contributions
The individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section, for example:.
Conceptualization, M.F.S. and A.A.T.; data curation, M.F.S., F.M.A. and R.A.B.;
formal analysis, A.A.T. and F.M.A.; funding acquisition, M.F.S. and F.M.A.; investigation, M.F.S. and A.A.T.; methodology, M.F.S. and A.A.T.; project administration, F.M.A. and R.A.B.; resources, M.F.S. and F.M.A.; supervision, A.A.T. and R.A.B.; validation, M.F.S., F.M.A. and R.A.B.; writing—original draft, A.A.T. and M.F.S.; writing—review and editing, A.A.T. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article who does not meet the criteria for authorship including anyone who provided professional writing services or materials.
Authors should obtain permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the Acknowledgements section.
- If you do not have anyone to acknowledge, please write "Not applicable" in this section.
References
References in text: Name of authors should be cited in the text and given as – Author (1993), Author and Another (1993), Author et al. (1993) or (Author, 1993), (Author and Another, 1993), (Author et al., 1993).
When several references are placed in parentheses they are ordered chronologically from oldest to most recent and separated by semicolons (Zuckerman, 1980; Bird, 1996) If two or more cited papers are from the same year, list the papers from that year alphabetically: e.g., (Bird, 2003; Bird and Kaloshian, 2003; Bird and Opperman, 2003; Bird et al., 2003). For two or more articles by the same author(s) in the same year use letters: e.g., (Houser, 1992a,b).
Reference List: References should be listed in alphabetical order and the titles of journals should be cited in full. References are listed as follows:
Journal article:
Barker, K. R. and Koenning, S. R.(1998). Developing sustainable systems for nematode management. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 36:165-205
Book:
Siddiqi, M.R. (2000). Tylenchida: Parasites of Plants and Insects. 2nd Edition. CAB International, Willingford, U.K. 833 page.
. Chapter in book:
Sikora, R. A. and Fernández, E. (2005). Nematodes Parasites of Vegetables. In: Luc, M.; Sikora, R.A.and Bridge, J. (Eds.), Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture. CAB International, Wallingford (GBR), pp. 319-392.
Dissertation
Bakr, R. A. (2008). Biological and physical control of plant parasitic nematodes on economic crops in the new reclaimed lands. M.SC. Thesis, Fac., of Agric., Menoufia University, Egypt.143 page.
Conference
Mousa, E. M.; Mahdy, M. E. and Bakr R. A. (2008). Root-knot nematode management based on solarisation.5th International Congress of Nematology, 13-18 July 2008, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Table and Graphs:
Numerical results should be presented either as tables or as graph and in editable format. Tables and graphs should be 5" x 7" or less in size, typed in 10 or 11 font size, numbered consecutively and should have a brief explanatory title. Avoid vertical lines in tables.
Figures:
Drawing may not be more than 5" x 7" in size, drawn in black India ink on white or transparent paper. Photographs must be of high quality and resolution (JPEG/TIF at 300 dpi). The authors would be asked to pay page printing charges for coloured photographs.
Off prints:
Contributors will be given 15 off prints of the paper @ 15 EGP per page. Additional reprints can be ordered while returning the galley proofs.
Cover Letter:
A letter must accompany the manuscript, and it must contain the following elements in the order listed below:-
Copyright:
International copyright laws apply to all material published in the Egyptian Journal of Crop Protection with authors retaining all and full copyrights for their articles. Prior approval and permission should be obtained from the appropriate author(s) and the Editorial Board of the EJCP before copying or reproducing any material published in the journal.
Copyright Transfer Agreement:
It must be uploaded upon acceptance for the paper:
Contributors’ form (to be modified as applicable and one signed copy attached with the manuscript)
Journal Title: _______________________________________________________
Manuscript Title: _____________________________________________________
Manuscript Number: ________________________________________________
I/we certify that I/we have participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, conception and design of this work or the analysis and interpretation of the data (when applicable), as well as the writing of the manuscript, to take public responsibility for it and have agreed to have my/our name listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript represents valid work. Each author confirms they meet the criteria for authorship. Neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under my/our authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in the covering letter. I/we certify that all the data collected during the study is presented in this manuscript and no data from the study has been or will be published separately. I/we attest that, if requested by the editors, I/we will provide the data/information or will cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data/information on which the manuscript is based, for examination by the editors or their assignees. Financial interests, direct or indirect, that exist or may be perceived to exist for individual contributors in connection with the content of this paper have been disclosed in the cover letter. Sources of outside support of the project are named in the cover letter.
I/We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise, convey(s) all copyright ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively to the Journal, in the event that such work is published by the Journal. The Journal shall own the work, including 1) copyright; 2) the right to grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part, with or without fee; 3) the right to produce preprints or reprints and translate into languages other than English for sale or free distribution; and 4) the right to republish the work in a collection of articles in any other mechanical or electronic format.
We give the rights to the corresponding author to make necessary changes as per the request of the journal, do the rest of the correspondence on our behalf and he/she will act as the guarantor for the manuscript on our behalf.
All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript, but who are not contributors, are named in the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written permission to be named. If I/we do not include an Acknowledgment that means I/we have not received substantial contributions from non-contributors and no contributor has been omitted.
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