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Author Guidelines

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

An acceptable manuscript will meet the following general criteria: it reports a worthwhile contribution to science, sound methodology was used and is explained with sufficient detail so that other capable scientists could repeat the experiments. Conclusions are supported by data, manuscripts is concise, well written, and understandable.

 

MANUSCRIPT FORMAT

Manuscript (in English or Bahasa Indonesia) should be uploaded to Jurnal Agrotropika journal system and arranged in Jurnal Agrotropika standard format, Title, Authors, Affiliation, Address and Email, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Result and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment and References. Typed at one side of white paper of A4 size, in two column, 1.5 space line, and 11 point Times New Roman font. Margins on all four sides are 2.5 cm (see Template).

 

MANUSCRIPT TITLE

The title of the paper should be concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formula where possible. It should be written clearly and concisely describing the contents of the research.

AUTHORS

Manuscript has main author and co-authors with full name of the author and co-authors (no abbreviation), includes affiliation, address (es), and email addresses clearly.

ABSTRACT

The abstract comes after title page in the manuscript. Abstract must be integrated and independent which is consist of introduction and purpose, methods, results, conclusion and suggestion. However the abstract should be written as a single paragraph without these headers. For this reason, References should be avoided. Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. Abstract must be written using 150 until 250 words which has no reference and accompanied keywords.

KEYWORDS

The keywords should be avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts. Do not use words or terms in the title as keywords. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes. Keywords should not more than 5 words or phrases in alphabetical order.

INTRODUCTION

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Explain how you addressed the problem and clearly state the aims of your study. As you compose the introduction, think of readers who are not experts in this field. Introduction must be written using 750 until 1000 words

METHODS

It should be mention time and place of research in first part. All materials and methods that used such chemical for analysis, treatment, and experimental design must be stated clearly and briefly. State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lays the foundation for further work. a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis. Materials and methods must be written using 400 until 600 words.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Result and discussion must be written in the same part. They should be presented continuously start from the main result to the supporting results and equipped with a discussion. Unit of measurement used should follow the prevailing international system. All figures and tables placed separately at the end of  manuscript pages and should be active and editable by editor.

 

CONCLUSION

Conclusion should be explained clearly. Suggestion placed after conclusion contains a recommendation on the research done or an input that can be used directly by consumer. Conclusion and suggestion must be written using 40 until 80 words.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (Optional)

State the grant source and the person to whom the grant was given. Name the person to help you work.

 

REFERENCES

The author-year notation system is required and completed. All reference mentioned should be written down in reference and arranged from A to Z. Articles have 10 recent references or over and 80% is journal article. The most of references are primary ones (last ten years). Unpublished data and personal communication should not be cited as literature citations. “In Press” articles that have been accepted for publication may be cited in references. Include in the citation the journal in which the “in press” article will appear and the publication date, if a date is available.

Example 

Reference to a Journal Article:
Evizal, R., Tohari, I.D. Prijambada, J. Widada, F.E. Prasmatiwi, dan Afandi. 2010. Pengaruh tipe agroekosistem terhadap produktivitas dan keberlanjutan usahatani kopi. Jurnal Agrotropika, 15(1):17-22.

Reference to a Book:
Corley, R. H. V. and P.B. Tinker. 2006. The Oil Palm (4th ed.).: Blackwell Publishing Inc., Malden.

Reference to a Chapter in an Edited Book:
Cahoon, E. B., T.E. Clemente, H.G. Damude, and A.J. Kinney. 2010. Modifying vegetable oils for food and non-food purposes. In J. Vollmann & I. Rajcan (Eds.), Handbook of Plant Breeding (4th ed., pp. 31–56). Springer, New York

 

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. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Licence that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)

Article Publication (Starting from volume May 2025): 600000.00 (IDR)
If author's paper is accepted for publication, author will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publication costs.

If authors do not have funds to pay such fees, authors will have an opportunity to waive each fee. Jurnal Agrotropika does not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy works.