Information For Authors

Journal of Phytology is an online platform for dissemination of knowledge for Scientists and Research students working on different fields of Plant Stress Physiology.

The Journal of Phytology publishes high-quality articles, in English, in all areas of General and Applied Plant Sciences. All articles will be peer-reviewed. Papers will be published online usually with in a month after acceptance.

Electronic submission of manuscripts is strongly encouraged, Submit manuscripts as per instructions through the  Online Submission link provided in the Navigation.  

The Cover letter should include the corresponding author's full address and telephone/fax numbers. The authors may also suggest four reviewers for the manuscript.

 

Article Types

Three types of manuscripts may be submitted: Regular articles, Short Communications, Reviews.

 

All portions of the manuscript must be typed double-spaced and all pages numbered starting from the title page.

 

The Title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper.

 

The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions.

 

Following the abstract, about 3 to 6 Keywords that will provide indexing should be listed.

 

The Introduction should provide a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject.

 

Materials and methods should be complete enough to allow experiments to be reproduced.

 

Results should be presented with clarity and precision.

The Discussion should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic. State the Conclusions in a few sentences at the end of Discussion.

 

The Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc should be brief.

 

Tables should be kept to a minimum and be designed to be as simple as possible.

 

Figure should be prepared using JPEG file.

 

References:

Citation in text:

References should be numbered in the order that they first appear in text and listed in numerical sequence on a separate sheet. References should be cited in full in the reference list, including the title and the first and last page numbers. In the reference list, periodicals [1], books [2], and multi-author books [3] should accord with the following examples:

Journal articles:

 

Single Author Paper

1.     Lata B. 2007. Cultivation mineral nutrition and seed production of Catharathus roseus (L.) G. Don. in the temperate climate zone. Phytochem. Rev.,  6: 403-411.

Multi Author Paper

2.     El-Dougdoug K.A., H. Mohamed, A. Abo-Senna. 2007. Effect of PVY viral infection on alkaloid contents of cultivated medicinal plants. J. App. Sci. Res., 3(7): 558-563.

Book

3.   Levitt, J. 1980. Responses of plants to environmental stresses, vol. 2, Academic Press, New York.

 

Chapter in a book:

4.   Asada, K., M. Takahashi. 1987. Production and scavenging of active oxygen in photosynthesis. In: Kyle, D.J., B. Osmond, C.J. Arntzen (Eds.), Photoinhibition, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 227-287.

 

Proofs: Electronic proofs will be sent (e-mail attachment) to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript.

Copyright: Submission of a manuscript implies: that the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.