Guideline for Author

 Submission of Manuscript

  1. Submission of a manuscript to the HPI implies that the research work described has neither been published, nor it is under consideration for publication anywhere else and the manuscript has been approved by all co-authors.
  2. It is the responsibility of author (s) to obtain prior approval of the appropriate authorities of the institute where the work had been carried out. The publisher in no case, whatsoever, will be held legally responsible if there were any claims raised for compensation.
  3. If authors are using any copyrighted material (figure, table or text passages), they must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for doing that. Authors are fully responsible for the authenticity of the literature and originality of the data. The HPI will not be responsible for the plagiarism.
  4. We receive nominal fee from the authors as the manuscript handling charges after acceptance of their manuscript by our reviewer panel. The amount of fee payable is dependent upon several factors including author’s affiliation, manuscript length etc. For fee detail, before submission manuscript author must visit Article Processing Charge – HORIZON PUBLISHER INDIA [HPI] However, publication of article in our journal is not contingent upon author’s capability to remit the fee. Partial waiver in fee is also granted to the deserving and needy authors. Priority in waiver is accorded to the budding researchers.
  5. Before submitting an article to the Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences, authors should visit NLM’s important policies to improve the quality of their work. Authors can enhance the quality of their articles by following these policies:

 Manuscript Preparation

Manuscript prepared following the guidelines strictly substantially reduces the time taken in editorial processing and results into rapid decision.

  1. Manuscript should be submitted electronically as single word file embedding all the figures and tables in following format:
  2. Font: Times New Roman; Font size- 14 for article title, 13 for section titles and 12 for text.
  3. Line Space: Manuscript must be typed in Double line space.
  4. Page setup: 1” margin in all sides.
  5. English: The HPI is published in English and all manuscripts should be written in English. A poor level of English may slow, or even prevent, the publication of the manuscript. The HPI recommends that authors who are not native English speakers get their manuscripts edited for the English language. Authors willing to avail paid services of professional language editors may contact manager.horizon.publisher.ind@gmail.com. However, this referral is just to facilitate authors to improve the language of their manuscript. It is neither mandatory to submit the manuscript using this service, nor does it guarantee of acceptance of manuscript for publication in HPI. The decision of editorial board shall be final in this regard.
  6. The manuscript should be structured as word file in following pattern:

Title page: It should include article title, name of author (s), affiliations, full contact address of corresponding author with Phone, Fax and Email.

Next page will contain abstract of the article (150-250 words) followed by 5-6 keywords. The manuscript text will start from the subsequent page.


Body: The manuscript body will consist of

  1. Introduction: This section will give brief introduction of the research work while reviewing the latest research related to it. The introduction section should clearly mention the significance and objectives of the research work being reported.
  2. Materials & Methods: This section should be detailed enough so that the other interested researchers could repeat the experiments. In case of common methods used, only citation will be sufficient. However, if any modification in the established method was made, it should be clearly mentioned. Wherever applicable, it should also be mentioned that the ethical clearance was obtained for performing animal trials.
  3. Results and Discussion: Authors should describe their important observations in this section. The data should have been analysed stastically
  4. Conclusions: In this section, authors should discuss their observations in view of already published literature. Variation from the published reports, if any, should be discussed logically giving all possible reasons and then conclusions should be made.
  5. After “Discussion and conclusions” section, authors can acknowledge the technical help/financial grant of their colleague/institutes etc.

Conflicts of interest and financial disclosures: Conflicts may be financial, academic, commercial, political or personal. Financial interests may include employment; research funding (received or pending), stock or share ownership, patents, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies, non financial support, or any fiduciary interest in a company. When any author(s) has such type of financial or personal obligation, it is required to mention such potential conflict of interest along with financial interests and related affiliations (other than those affiliations listed in the title page of the manuscript) relevant to the subject of their manuscript. For all accepted manuscripts, author must declare such conflicts of interest at the end of the manuscript before the manuscript publish. Author without a conflict of interest should include a statement that no such conflicts exist.

Please note that All the journal of Horizon Publisher India follows the APA Reference Style, Citation Style Name Year and Numbering Style Chapter Content.

In text of manuscript

Morse 2009 (Single Author) ; Morse and Buhler 1997; (Double Author) ; Jiménez et al. 2000 (Multiple author); Barrera 2006, 2020/ Morse and Buhler 1997, 2019/ Jiménez et al. 2000, 2005, 2010 (Multiple work of a single/double/ multiple author); (Savory and Butterfield 1999; Savory Global 2019) – Multiple citations in favor of single fact

In reference section

For Book

  • Altieri, M. A. (1987). Agroecology: The scientific basis of alternative agriculture. Boulder: Westview Press.
  • Mitchell, J.A., Thomson, M., & Coyne, R.P. (2017). A guide to citation. London, England: My Publisher.

For Journal Articles

  • Altieri, M. A., & Masera, O. (1993). Sustainable rural development in Latin America: Building from the bottom-up. Ecological Economics, 7(2), 93–121.
  • Gashaw, B. A., Habteyesus, D. G., & Nedjo, Z. S. (2018). Determinants of coffee value addition by smallholder farmers in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia. The International Journal of Business Management and Technology, 2(4), 112–123.
  • Avelino, J., Cristancho, M., Habteyesus, D. G., Georgiou, S., et al. (2015). The coffee rust crises in Colombia and Central America (2008–2013): Impacts, plausible causes and proposed solutions. Food Security, 7, 303–321 (If more than six authors).

Edited Book

  • Williams, S.T. (Ed.). (2015). Referencing: A guide to citation rules (3rd ed.). New York, NY: My Publisher.

Edited Book Chapter

  • Altieri, M. A., & Nicholls, C. I. (2003). Ecologically based pest management: A key pathway to achieving agroecosystem health. In D. J. Rappoport, W. L. Lasley, D. E. Rolston, et al. (Eds.), Managing for healthy ecosystems (pp. 999–1010). Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers.

E-Book

E-Book Chapter

Online Content

 Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the above said content, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to author guidelines.

 Sample Papers

Author can download sample Papers from http://jebas.org/ojs/index.php/jebas/issue/archive

 Article Processing Charge

We receive nominal fee from the authors as the manuscript handling charges after acceptance of their manuscript by our reviewer panel. The amount of fee payable is dependent upon several factors including author’s affiliation, manuscript length etc. For fee detail, before submission manuscript author must visit Article Processing Charge – HORIZON PUBLISHER INDIA [HPI]  link. However, publication of article in our journal is not contingent upon author’s capability to remit the fee. Partial waiver in fee is also granted to the deserving and needy authors. Priority in waiver is accorded to the budding researchers.

 English Language Editing

Many researchers who are not native English speakers often find it hard to get published due to their manuscripts being rejected as the English is not good enough. The poor English stops much valuable research work from being published; the data and results are more than suitable for publication, but they are hidden behind the inadequate English. Authors are need to write the manuscript in English (US) with proper care of sentences construction and any grammatical error/s which make it suitable for review and publication by HPI.