ACTA AGRESTIA SINICA is the Chinese core academic journals, which is superintended by China Association for Science and Technology, sponsored by the Chinese Grassland Society. It is publicly distributed at home and abroad. The journal mainly publishes the new achievements, new theories and new progress of grassland science fields and the related fields around the world. The type of published articles is mainly research articles and include a small number of special issues, reviews, short communications and the abstracts of PhD thesis. People at home and abroad are welcome to contribute their manuscripts.
The journal accepts both Chinese and English manuscripts. Manuscripts should have clear arguments, informative materials, reliable data, and concise text. General monographs and reviews should not exceed 6 printed pages, research papers should be limited to 6 pages (about 6000 words), research briefs should be limited to 4 pages (about 4000 words), and PhD thesis abstracts should be 1 page. Page charge will be added at discretion for exceeding the limit.
1. Elements and specifications of the article
Title in Chinese and English, author's name, author's unit, city name, zip code, abstract and key words; text (including introduction, materials and methods, results and analysis, discussion and conclusion); references. Footnotes on the front page include: ① Fund projects (name and number of funded projects); ② Brief introduction of the author (first author's name, gender, nationality, year of birth, professional title, degree, research direction and contact information (telephone and E-mail), and contact information of correspondence author (E-mail).
Title (Chinese-English correspondence) should be concise and accurate, generally no more than 20 words, and generally require font size of small three.
Abstract should be 300 words, outlining the purpose, materials, methods, results and conclusions of the study, highlighting the innovative results; the English language can expand the amount of information (e.g., research background, etc.) on this basis as appropriate. Chinese should be in five-point Song font, while English should be in five-point New Roman font.
Keywords (corresponding to Chinese and English) need three to eight; list the Chinese classification number of the article as far as possible. The font and font size requirements are the same as those of the abstract.
Title Chapter and article codes are expressed in Arabic numerals, with dots between numbers at all levels, generally not more than 4 levels; units of measurement must comply with the new national standard (GB3100 3102-93); foreign language symbols must be standardized in terms of species, italics, case and upper and lower corner markers in the lines; the first occurrence of biological names should indicate the Latin scientific name, and the species name should be italicized. The main text must be in five-point font.
Figures and tables must be self-explanatory and inserted into the corresponding parts of the text. Figure titles and table titles (in five characters) and their labels should be in Chinese and English (or Latin) and consistent with the text; abbreviations that are not commonly known should be annotated in English and Chinese. Tables must be three-line tables.
References Chinese references should be supplemented with English translations. References inside the text should include authors names in capital. Only the recent literature related to this paper is listed, and the unpublished ones cannot be cited. The font size is required to be small five, and the literature is recorded by a sequential coding system, with Arabic numerals in successive order of appearance in the text, and the serial number is used as a superscript or as part of the statement, depending on the case. For example, Gang Li [1 to 3] made a large number of ......; ...... as provided in the literature [8]. After the text, they are listed in the order of their serial numbers in the text. Example of transcription.
a Monograph: [Serial number] Author. Book title [M]. Edition (the first edition is not recorded). Place of publication: publisher, year of publication: page
[1] TAN B Y. How to write a scientific paper [M]. Shenyang: Liaoning People's Publishing House,1982:59
[2] EISSEN H N. Immunology: an introduction to molecular and cellar principles of the immune response [M]. 5th ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1974:40
b Journals: [serial number] Author(s). Title [J]. Journal title, year of publication, volume number (issue number): page
[1] WU C W, LI Y Z, WU G S,et al. Computerized expansion method of unit nodes for plough body surfaces [J]. Journal of Agricultural Machinery,1990, 21(3):22-27
[2] O'CALLAGHAN J R, MCCOY J G. The handling of soil by mouldbord ploughs [J]. Journal Agricultural Engineering Research, 1965, 10(1):23-35
c Proceedings: [Serial number] Author. Title of the paper [C]//Editor. Title of the collection. Place of publication: publisher, year of publication: page number of the indexed literature
[1] FOX R L, WILLMERT K D. Optimal design of linkage curves with inequality constraints [C]//Mechanical Texts. A collection of translations of mechanisms. Beijing: Machinery Industry Press, 1982:232-242
[2] ABELL B C, TAGG R C, PUSH M. Enzyme catalyzed cellular transaminations [C]//Round A F, ed. Advances in enzymology. 3rd ed. New York: Academic Press, New York: Academic Press, 1954:125-127
d Dissertation: [Serial number] Author. Title [D]. Place (city) where the degree is conferred: degree conferring unit, year: page
[1] LI Q Z. Optimal design of high-speed plow body surface [D]. Beijing:Beijing Agricultural Engineering University,1988:2-7
[2] CAIRN R B. Infrared spectroscopic studies of solid oxygen [D]. Berkeley, California: University of California,1965: 8
e Patent: Patent owner. Patent title: Patent country, patent number [P]. Date of publication or disclosure
[1] JIANG X Z. A warm external medicine preparation scheme:China, 881056073[P]. 1989-07-26
2. Eight principles of manuscript processing
2.1 If the manuscript does not conform to the above specifications, it will be returned to the author for revision and will be accepted after meeting the requirements.
2.2 The journal only accepts manuscript submissions from the official website. Please do not use the revision mode when submitting manuscripts and add line numbers in the text for the convenience of external reviewers. A manuscript processing fee of 150 RMB is required after the manuscript is accepted, and the payment method will be informed by email.
2.3 You are responsible for the content of your manuscript. Please do not submit two manuscripts at the same time; the content should be confidential and signed correctly.
2.4 The editorial office will notify the author of the results of the review within 2 months of accepting the manuscript.
2.5 If the author does not return the revised manuscript after 3 months without any reason, the manuscript will be considered as withdrawn.
2.6 The Editorial Board will make necessary changes to the text of accepted manuscripts.
2.7 Manuscripts are generally published in the order of acceptance, with priority given to the first papers on major topics and major scientific research results. A publication fee of RMB 360 per page within 5 pages and RMB 460 per page above 5 pages is required before publication.
2.8 The journal has been listed as a regular source by many databases and abstract journals, or the abstracts are reprinted, or the full text is online or in the CD-ROM version of the journal, and the authors are considered to have no objection if they do not make special declaration. After the manuscript is adopted, the authors are required to download the Copyright Agreement from the official website, and all authors sign it and scan it into pdf to upload it to the system. Authors' copyright royalty will be paid together with the journal's manuscript fee, and a sample journal will be given.
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