PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT

IMPORTANT! Every submission must include 3 files:

  • Cover Letter - including all Authors' names, full affiliations, and ORCID. The template for a Cover Letter is available below.
  • Manuscript (.doc) - in editable format (.doc, .docx);
  • Manuscript (.pdf) - complete with all figures and tables - in .pdf format.

 Cover Letter template

We accept submissions of full papers and reviews on biological, technical, and socio-economical issues with a connection to agriculture. Papers should be intelligible to a broad scientific audience.

The length of contributions should not exceed 15 pages, including tables, pictures and graphs. The content of manuscripts must be factual, and if the nature of a paper allows it, achieved results are statistically evaluated.

Contributions are published only in English (preferable British English spelling and typographic conventions).

Title Page

Title

Title should be concise, precise, factual, has to describe the main topic in the most precise way. It cannot include abbreviations, except the most general ones, e.g. DNA.

Name

State the names of all co-authors, without titles (e.g. John Smith).

Affiliation address

Below the author names please state full addresses of all co-authors in English (including e-mail).

Example: Alois Novák, Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic, e‑mail: novak@mendelu.cz.

Abstract

Factual outline of the topic, used methods, summary of results and overall conclusions and recommendations (10–15 lines of texts). Abstract cannot contain anything which is not a part of the actual text.

Keywords

A set of keywords should be comprehensive, but concise, typically 7–10 words or phrases. Initial letters of keywords are written in lower-case.

Main Text

Introduction

Introduction should provide wider context, substantiation of the need of writing and publishing the paper, its goal.

Materials and Methods

In the interest of reproducibility, please provide a concise description of research material and used scientific methods. If these are not original methods, give reference to the paper where this method was originally published.

Results

Results section should contain evaluation and exact description of achieved results. If the nature of a paper allows it, state the statistical significance of the results as well.

Discussion

In discussion, please provide a confrontation of the achieved results with previously published papers, author’s opinion of established differences, their attitude to the results. The discussion section also provides a space to outline the need of further potential solution or importance for the development of science, society or practice.

Conclusion

This section should provide a concise summary of the most important findings in relation to the goals set. Please state only facts here, polemic is reserved for the Discussion section.

Acknowledgement

An acknowledgement is necessary when the realization of the paper was supported by a grant agency or other external resources. Always state the full name of the organization which provided funding for the project and its number in square brackets.

Example: This paper was supported by Grant Agency [No. 1234567890].

References

Provide in-text citations using the following style Name Author (year of publication). In the final list of references, format citations using the Harvard style. Arrange the citations in alphabetical order, based on the first author’s name, without numbering. The reference list must contain citations of all used sources and cannot contain citations of sources which were not actually used.
Please note that all non-English document titles must be translated into English with the original title stated afterwards in brackets [].

Example: DEJMAL, A. 2004. Methodology of scanning and measuring the prong test samples [in Czech: Metodika snímání a měření vzorků vidličkové zkoušky kvality dřeva]. Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 52(5), 83–90.

Referencing style – examples:

Monograph: SURNAME, INITIALS, or Full First Name(s). Year of publication. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.

1 author:
COMFORT, Alex. 1997. A good age. 2nd edition. London: Mitchell Beazley.

2-3 authors:
WIT, J. S., PONEMAN, D. B., GALLUCI, R. L. 2004. Going critical: the first North Korean nuclear crisis. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

More than 3 authors:
ROEDER, K., HOWDESHELL, J., FULTON, F. et al. 1967. Nerve cells and insect behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Electronic monograph: SURNAME, INITIALS, or Full First Name(s). Year of Publication. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. DOI or URL.

Example: BENKEBLIA, Noureddine (ed.). 2023. Climate Change and Agriculture: Perspectives, Sustainability and Resilience. Chichester (UK): John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119789789

Journal article: SURNAME, INITIALS, or Full First Name(s). Year of publication. Title of article. Title of journal. volume(number/issue), page numbers, or article number.

Example: KOCUROVÁ, Tamara, HAMPEL, David. 2020. Inequality in the Income of the Population as a Determinant of the Country’s Economic Growth. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis. 68(6), 987–994.

Journal article available online: SURNAME, INITIALS, or Full First Name(s). Year of publication. Title of article. Title of journal. volume(number/issue), page numbers, or article number. DOI or URL

Example: BELOVSKY, G. E. 1984. Summer diet optimization by beaver. American Midland Naturalist. 111(2), 209–222. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2425316

Conference proceedings paper: SURNAME, INITIALS, or Full First Name(s). Year of publication. Paper title. In: Proceedings title. Venue, date. Place of publication: Name of the publisher, page numbers.

Example: SATTLER, M. A. 2007. Education for a more sustainable architecture. In: Sun, wind and architecture: proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. National University of Singapore, 22–24 November. Singapore: Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, pp. 844–851.

Conference proceedings paper available online: SURNAME, INITIALS or Full First Name(s). Year of publication. Paper title. In: Proceedings title. Venue, date. Place of publication: Name of the publisher, page numbers. DOI or URL

DOSHI, Jignesh, TRIVEDI, Bhushan. 2017. A Novice Approach for Web Application Security. In: MODI, Nilesh; VERMA, Pramode; TRIVEDI, Bhushan (eds.). Proceedings of International Conference on Communication and Networks: ComNet 2016. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2750-5_1

Website: CREATOR (human or company). Year of publication/copyright. Name of the webpage [online]. URL [date of access].

Example: LABOUR PARTY. 2010. Policy guide [online]. http://www.labour.org.uk/policies/home [2023-05-02].

Article/page on Website: CREATOR (human or company). Year of publication/copyright. Name of article/page. Name of the webpage [online]. URL [date of access].

STÁTNÍ VETERINÁRNÍ SPRÁVA. 2023. Africký mor prasat – aktuální informace k 21. 6. 2023. Bezpečnost potravin [online]. https://bezpecnostpotravin.cz/africky-mor-prasataktualni-informace-k-21-2-2023/ [2023-06-23].

Law: NAME OF THE COUNTRY. Year of publication. Law title. In: Collection of laws title. Edition (částka): page numbers. URL (if applicable).

Example: CZECH REPUBLIC. 2004. Act. No. 634/2004 Coll., on Administrative Charges, as amended [in Czech: Zákon č. 634/2004 Sb., ve znění pozdějších předpisů]. In: Sbírka zákonů České republiky. Částka 215/2004.

Standard: STANDARDS AGENCY NAME. Year of publication. Name of the standard. Standard number. Place of publication: Publisher.

Example: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OFFICE. 1998. Information and documentation: Bibliographical references: Electronic documents. ISO 690–2. Geneva: ISO.

Patent: SURNAME, INITIALS OF INVENTOR/PATENT OWNER. Year of issue. Title of patent. Number of patent. Country/patent agency. URL (if applicable).

Example: SMITH, P. L. 2002. Particle trap for compressed gas insulated trasmission systems. US Patent 4554399. United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Formatting and Editing of Manuscripts

The raw text is accepted in the following formats: MS Word (.doc, .docx), OpenOffice (.odt), .txt, and .rtf. Please provide two complete files including all appendices (pictures, graphs, tables) in .doc and .pdf format. Images should be provided also as separate files in print-ready resolution (300 dpi).

Use line numbering in the main document. In order to add line numbers in Microsoft Word go to the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Line Numbers; to number consecutively throughout the document, click Continuous.

Font

The whole text must be written using the same font (e.g. Times New Roman), size 12. In order to distinguish the headings from the body text, use size or typeface (bold, italics), not colour or underlining. It is possible to use at most 3 levels of headings (main chapters: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References + 2 sublevels).

Further Formatting

Submit the manuscript with as little text formatting as possible. DO NOT use numbering of chapters, too many indentations of paragraphs, manual page and line breaks, header, footer, page numbers etc. Please note that we use two-column typesetting, which may influence bullet points, the order of images, tables etc.

Pictures, Graphs, and Tables

Pictures, graphs and tables should be included in the main text. Every picture, graph and table must have a description of content and source. Pictures and graphs are named Figure (Fig.) and using Arabic numerals, tables are marked as Table (Tab.) and numbered using Roman numerals.

Examples of naming attachments: Fig. 1; Figs. 1, 2; Figs. 1–3; Tab. IV.

Please note:

  • any attachments included as an image should be provided separately as well - in print-ready quality;
  • minimal allowed quality (resolution) of pictures is 300 DPI;
  • allowed picture formats are: .jpg/.jpeg, .tif, .png, .bmp, .wmf, pdf;
  • allowed graph formats are .xlsx;
  • allowed table formats are: .doc, .docx, .xlsx.

Mathematical Expressions

All mathematical expressions in the text must be inserted as editable text.

m = 1
k ≤ 0
a1 + b1 + c1 + d1 = 0
2(p + 1)
k = 1, 2, …, n

Fractions, integrals, braces, sums with upper and lower limits etc. must be inserted as equations (text) or provided in the form of an image in sufficient resolution.

Please note: always use a dot (.) as a decimal point, instead of a comma (,). Use commas to separate thousands. E.g. π = 3.14159. One million six hundred thousand = 1,600,000.

The text, as well as all attachments, must be submitted in their entirety and final form. The publisher is not responsible for any content modifications of the text, graphs, tables or mathematical expressions.