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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Title: The title of the article should be bold and in running form. Use the font Times New Roman (14 points). Botanical/scientific names should be italicized. The author name(s) should be in running and bold with the full address of the corresponding author including the e-mail address (it is mandatory as future correspondence will be only through e-mail). The address of other authors(s), if different from the first author, should be given as footnotes and indicated by consecutive superscript numbers. A brief running title should also be provided.

Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 250 words. It should be suitable for indexing and publication in abstracting journals. Very pertinent keywords may be furnished.

Text: The text should be typed in 1.5 space on A4 size paper  with 2.5cm margin on all sides in clear and concise English. Use the font Times New Roman (12 points). The paper should be divided into subheadings (placed on the left margin and in the upper case) such as Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements, and References. Units and abbreviations should be in the metric (SI) system. It is desirable that authors take due care of the clarity and brevity of the paper. The length of the paper should not exceed 3000 words for full-length and 2500 for short communication.

Tables/Illustrations/Photographs: Each table should be on a separate sheet with a short title at the end of the paper, numbered in the order in which it appears in the text. The data reported must be subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. The illustrations should be relevant to the research findings and should not be repeating of data presented in the table. Only very good photographs to be  given on a separate sheet of paper with a title, which are reproducible, will be accepted. Data to be presented in graphical form should be sent on quality glossy contrast paper without folding. Authors may submit photographs/figures/diagrams for the cover page while submitting the manuscript.

References: APA Reference Style is followed. Please see https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf. hould be cited in the text in the form of (Anon., 1999; Prakash, 2002; Krishnamoorthy & Mani 2004). The term et al should be used when there are more than two authors. The letters, a, b, c, .... should be used following the year, to distinguish between two or more papers by the same author(s) in one year. References at the end of the text should be given in the following.

Shikhamany, S.D. & Satyanarayana, G. (1973). A study on the associated of leaf nutrient contents with poor yields in Anab. E.shahi grape (Vitis vinifera L.). Indian Journal of Horticulture, 30:376-382

Panse, V.G. & Sukhatme, P.V. (1978). Statistical methods for agricultural workers. ICAR, New Delhi, p 108

Srinivas, K. (1987). Response of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus Thunb. Musf) to drip and furrow irrigation under different nitrogen and plant population levels. [Doctoral dissertation, UAS, Bangalore]

Mehta, N.K. & Sharma, S.D. (1986). Studies on flowering and fruit retention in some cultivars of peach (Prunus Persica Batch). In: Advances in Research on Temperate Fruits. Proc. Nat’l. Symp. Temp. Fruits, Solan (India), Dr. Y.S. Parmar Univ. Hort. and Forestry, pp 37-42

Krishnamoorthy, A. & Mani, M. (2000). Biological Control of Pests of Vegetable Crops. In Upadhyaay, R.K. Mukerji, K.G. and Chamola, B.P. (Eds.), Biocontrol Potential and its exploitation in sustainable Agriculture (pp 367-378).

Prior Publication Policy

Publication in the form of an abstract, thesis, or preprint is not considered a prior publication. Authors are encouraged to share their submitted versions (preprints), accepted versions (post-prints), and/or published versions (publisher versions) freely under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

CRediT Authorship Contribution Statement

In order to recognize the specific contributions made by individual authors and reduce conflicts related to authorship, it is recommended that authors utilize the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) system, which facilitates collaboration and provides transparency in the research process.

Declaration of Competing Interest

Authors are expected to disclose any potential competing interest, which may arise from competing interests, and have the potential to affect their research or publication, in accordance with the guidelines provided.

Acknowledgments

Authors should include an acknowledgments section in their manuscript to recognize and express gratitude towards individuals, organizations, or institutions that have provided support, advice, or assistance during the research or writing process.

Data Deposit (Data Archiving)

The JHS highly encourages authors to archive all data related to their manuscripts in reputable data repositories or generalist repositories, as listed on the Scientific Data  website. The Authors may also deposit the data from the accepted manuscript on the Journal's Dataverse Repository. This proactive approach to data sharing helps enhance the transparency and reproducibility of research findings.

Covering Letter

Authors should include a cover letter with their manuscript, outlining the relevance of the research to the journal's audience and indicating if the manuscript has been posted to a preprint server. Additionally, authors may suggest two or three potential reviewers who are experts in the field and have no conflict of interest with the research.

Ensuring a Blind Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

  1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

  2. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file.

    For Microsoft 2003 and previous versions, and Macintosh versions of Word:

    • Under the File menu select: Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    For MacIntosh Word 2008 (and future versions)

    1. Under the File menu select "Properties."
    2. Under the Summary tab remove all of the identifying information from all of the fields.
    3. Save the File.

    For Microsoft 2007 (Windows):

    1. Click on the office button in the upper-left hand corner of the office application
    2. Select "Prepare" from the menu options.
    3. Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" menu options.
    4. Delete all of the information in the document property fields that appear under the main menu options.
    5. Save the document and close the document property field section.

    For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):

    1. Under the File menu select "Prepare for sharing."
    2. Click on the "Check for issues" icon.
    3. click on "inspect document" icon.
    4. Uncheck all of the checkboxes except "Document Properties and Personal information".
    5. Run the document inspector, which will then do a search of the document properties and indicated if any document property fields contain any information.
    6. If the document inspector finds that some of the document properties contain information it will notify you and give you the option to "Remove all," which you will click to remove the document properties and personal information from the document.

  3. For PDF files:

    • With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • CRediT Authorship Contribution Statement, Declaration of Competing Interest and Acknowledgments are added to the manuscript.
  • The submission has not been previously published in a peer reviewed journal, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor in case of 'Preprint').
  • The text is 1.5 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 (APA style) and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The manuscript's data are deposited in a reputable data repository. Or once the article is accepted, the data would be deposited in the Journals Dataverse Repository (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/jhs/)

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright. Articles published are made available as open access articles, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Creative Commons License

This journal permits and encourages authors to share their research data and the submitted versions (preprints), accepted versions (postprints) and/or published versions (publisher versions) freely under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable.

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