Authors Guides
Aims and scope
Submission of manuscripts will be published from different disciplines such as Agricultural sciences, applied environmental sciences and biological sciences. All submitted manuscripts (original articles, reviews, short communication and books) have to be written in English only.
Preparation of manuscripts
Authors should prepare the manuscript using the JEPS word template. Only manuscript following the JEPS format will be sent to reviewers.
The authors are required to check carefully the journal's instructions before submitting a manuscript. All submitted manuscripts will be returned if it was prepared in a different style. Authors must use Microsoft Word to write the manuscript. The text should be in a single-column format. Before submitting a manuscript, the authors have to check their manuscript language. The author is requested to examine the text carefully for grammatical typing errors to avoid correction in the proof. It should also be carefully checked all the tables and calculations. The font size of the text of the whole manuscript must be in Times New Roman 12 Bold except for the references which must be in 10 Time New Roman. The abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion and references must be 14-point font size. The English title of the paper should be in Times New Roman 14 Bold, centre; and should present a title that includes the full names of first and surname of the author(s), institutional addresses must be 12 Times New Roman, and email addresses for all authors must written in 10 Time New Roman. The margin should be as follows: top 2 cm; bottom 2 cm; left 2 cm; right 2 cm in A4 format. Right justify must not be used in the text. The line spacing is 1.2 multiple.
Structure of the text body
General
Organizing all submitted manuscripts should be as follows: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements, References and Tables and Figure legends. The running head of the manuscript title should be concise, no more than 50 characters (including spaces). The first letter from each word of the title must written in capital except the prepositions.
Author's names and Addresses
The manuscript must write for each author the full first name, middle initial and surname. For instance, Ammar B. Altemimi or Aliaa A. Mahdi. The ampersand "&" must be used instead of "and" before the name of the last author. The uppercase number 1 should be inserted after the full name of the first author while using consecutive numbers for the rest of the authors in case their addresses are different from the first author. The corresponding author should be provided with an uppercase asterisk "*” if there will be more than one authorship in the manuscript.
Abstract
The abstract should briefly summarize the aim, findings or purpose of the article and not exceed more than 250 words. The authorities for species/genus names should not be mentioned in the abstract. The authors do not need to cite any references, tables and figures in the abstract section.
Keywords
Three to six keywords should present the main content of the article, it is recommended to choose words not found in the title of the paper as possible.
Introduction
The problem must be identified within the context in the introduction section. The objectives of the work should be written in an understandable form even for people who are not working in your field. For One or a few species, non-taxonomic manuscripts should work. However, the studied species should be authenticated but not mandatory species in cited references Here is the list of examples to ensure how the author writes the references in the introduction, materials and methods, and the discussion sections such as David (2012) or (David, 2012), Ammar & Watson (2016) or (Ali & Jones, 2013) and Al-Ali et al. (2016) or (Mohameed et al., 2015; Jones et al., 2017; Al-Saadi & Barker, 2018). The italics form should be used for the scientific names and other Latin words, in situ, in vivo and in vitro.
Materials and Methods
The authors are requested to provide coherent and sufficient details to authorize your work to be reproduced. All published methods should be cited with an appropriate reference. Please give so attention to statistical analysis and cite significant differences as small letters (a, b, ab, c, bc, d..etc.) in tables and figures.
Results
Results should be clear and concise. The authors do not have to repeat some data in the form of figures and tables.
Discussion
This section should explore the significant results of the work, which is related to the problem outlined in the Introduction. The results should be placed in this section and discussed scientifically. Both Results and Discussion sections may be combined in one section.
Conclusions
Global results must written in this section that appear differently in comparison with that found in the Abstract.
Acknowledgements
The corresponding author should write and mention each author’s last name next to the appropriate category such as Analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of manuscript, Acquisition of data, Study conception and design and critical revision this section should be written in a brief form.
References
References must be listed in an alphabetical form in the text and listed individually at the end of the manuscript and written as APA version 7 with a 10-point font size. Each reference must follow with doi or electronic website of the published articles (or book) in their publication place.
Examples:
Articles in journals:
Wook, H. J., Jact, B. N., & Park, H.L. (2006). Effect of long time starvation on hepatocyte of olive flounder. International Journal of Agriculture and Biological Science, 53(4): 211-216.
Books:
Coad, B.W. (2010). Freshwater fishes of Iraq. Pensoft Publication, Moscow: 274pp. + 16pls.
Chapters in books:
Freyhof, J., Güler Ekmekçi, F., Ali, A.; Khamees, N.R., Ozuluğ, M., Hamidan, N., Küçük, F. & Smith, K. (2014). Freshwater fishes: 19-42 In Smith, K. G., Barrios, V., Darwall, W.R.T. & Numa, C. (Eds.). The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Eastern Mediterranean. IUCN programs, 129pp.
- Sc. or Ph. D. Thesis (Only one thesis is allowed to be used in the manuscript)
Al-Badran, A.I. (2003). Studies on the molecular genetics of urinary bladder cancer. Ph. D. Thesis, Univ. Panjab.: 165pp.
The citation of foreign (non-English) literature:
Kim, I.-H. (1998). [Cirripedia, Symbiotic Copepoda, and Pycnogonida. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fauna & Flora of Korea. Vol. 38.] Seoul: Ministry of Education, 1038pp. (In Korean.)
Website:
Froese, R., & Pauly, D. (Eds.). (2020). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.
Available from http://www.fishbase.org/ (accessed 10 March 2020).
Figures (Fig. or Figs.)
The Arabic numbers should be used [Fig.1, fig, (2), fig. (3)] in the text, tables and figures. Authors are encouraged to submit all figures in the form of generic graphics such as jpeg, EPS or tiff with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Tables
The Arabic numerals must be used to define the table, then followed by the title. The footnotes in the 10-point bold font will be written under the table in case of giving additional explanations. Tables should be printed within single horizontal lines. The Tables with their legends should each be presented on a separate page
Reviewing of manuscripts
Two referees will be selected to review carefully all submitted manuscripts in addition to linguistic and statically reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief will evaluate all submitted manuscripts to make the right decisions regarding publication. The author should state that the submitted manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All corrections should be completed within a month when the manuscript is accepted.
Proofs
Corresponding authors will receive a notification either by e-mail or through our online proofing system. The author should use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, and correctness of the text. This step should be completed within seventy-two working hours.
Fees of Publication
- For foreign researchers, publication is free on the condition that the research includes the researcher's official email.
- For local researchers, the fees are as follows:
- If one of the researchers holds the rank of Professor, the fee is 135,000 Iraqi Dinars.
- If one of the researchers holds the rank of Assistant Professor, the fee is 110,000 Iraqi Dinars.
- For all other cases, the fee is 85,000 Iraqi Dinars.
Note 1: The fees include plagiarism detection, which must be conducted exclusively at the College of Education for Pure Science, University of Thi-Qar.
Note 2: An additional fee of 5,000 Iraqi Dinars per page is applicable for each page exceeding 12 pages.
Copyright
For Bjas to publish and disseminate research articles, we need certain publishing rights from authors, which are determined by a publishing agreement between the author and the journal.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0] that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors can 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) before 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).
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