Journal of Biological and Agricultural Advancements (JBAA) publishes only the original research papers and good quality reviews.The length of the whole manuscript should be 5000-8000 words.  Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else. Its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation. The papers must be prepared following the guidelines of the journal. The papers not following the layout and style of the journal will not be accepted. The manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three consulting editors with two advisory board members/reviewers and after approval, these will be edited thoroughly. This process normally takes 2-3 months. If conditionally approved, the authors will be required to revise within a specific time.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Text

Manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word. Use a normal, plain font (e.g. 10 point Times New Roman) and double spaced for text. Bottom page number and continuous line numbering should be included throughout the manuscript. Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and use consistently thereafter. Ample margin should be left on each side. Authors’ institutional address should follow authors name and will not appear as a footnote. Papers may be organized conveniently as: Full Title, Authors, Affiliation, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Reference, Tables and Figures. Further subdivision of the Results section may be made as necessary. Keywords must be given below the Abstract.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

The following style in the preparation of the manuscript may be followed:

Title Page

The title page should include the name (s) of the author (s), a concise and informative title, the affiliation (s) and address (es) of the author (s), the e-mail address, telephone and fax number of the corresponding author. In case of more than one authors with different institutions, use numbering in superscripts (1, 2, 3 etc) to separate the author’s affiliation.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 200 to 300 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Introduction

Must contain the comprehensive literature on the problem to be addressed and valid hypotheses to be tested in the study.

Materials and Methods

Must contain all details of the experimental procedure for the successful repetition of the experiment.

Result and Discussion

Results and discussion may be in a single section as “Results and Discussion” or if necessary, can be split into separate “Results” and “Discussion” sections. Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. Do not repeat in the text all the data given in the tables and figures rather than emphasize only important observations. Discussion should be logical and results must be discussed in the light of previous literature justifying your findings. Summarize the findings without repeating the data in results section. Relate your observations to important relevant studies; point out the implications of the results and their limitations.

Conclusion

Conclusion can be given in a separate heading or a short paragraph containing important conclusions of the study.

Acknowledgments

Persons and colleagues that contributed to the work, but, do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged. Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference section. The role of funding organization should be mentioned clearly in acknowledgement of manuscript. If there is no funding source then the authors are required to state that “This research didn’t receive specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors”. The name of funding organization should be written in full. Consent and approval should be received from concerned persons or organizations before acknowledging them in the article.

Authors Contribution Statement

Authors must provide a short description of the contributions made by each listed author. This will be published in a separate section after the conclusion. Please be aware that changes to the list of authors are not possible after final acceptance of the manuscript.

Scientific Style

Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units).

References

Author(s) should follow the latest edition of APA style in referencing. Please visit www.apastyle.org or download it from downloads link to learn more about APA style. 

Tables

All the tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals (e.g., “Table 1”). They should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order. For each table, a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table should be provided above the table. A reference of original source should be quoted at the end of table caption for previously published material. Asterisks may be used to identify the significant values or other statistical data and they should be included below the table in the form of footnotes. The tables should be editable. Justification of the text within the cells is honored at typesetting. Spaces or tabs to separate data within a cell should not be used. The cells that span multiple columns and rows may be merged. Text colour should be black and 10 font size should be consistent in all the tables.

Figures

All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figures should be conceptual and unambiguous. Ensure that all elements of a figure (text and images) are readily visible at printed size. Ensure that all axes and figure elements are well-defined and explained, but avoid unnecessary text. Include and define error bars where appropriate. 

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.

1.  Plagiarism

   Plagiarism is not acceptable in JBAA submissions and publication as per Higher Education Commission policy. With the submission, authors declare the originality of their work, properly citing, reusing or copying previous publications. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the publisher has the right to issue a correction or retract the paper.

2. Conflict of Interest

   Authors, reviewers or editorial staffs have to disclose every situation, which could potentially affect the impartial review and publication procedure.

3. Open Access Policy

   Open Access is an unrestricted online model that allows the distribution of research papers through the internet to everyone in the global community with no price restraint. Thus, all articles published under open access can be accessed by anyone with internet access. All the articles published by JBAA are freely accessible online to the global community.

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• Fast Publication Process within 20-25 days
• Submission to Initial decision within 2 days
• Review Process within 14 days
• Acceptance to Publication 6 days
• Published online immediately in the current issues
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• 10000 PKR for Pakistani Researchers
• 8000 PKR for Pakistani Students
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