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Author Guidelines

In order to have your articles published in the PSJ, you are requested to adhere to the below instructions and prerequisites to enable timely review of your submissions by the editorial board:

  • Write the title of your article in CAPITAL LETTERS in the center of the page.
  • Write the complete name of all authors with their addresses – it is compulsory in the text. References should be cited by author and years as, for one, two or more authors (Hammer, 1994, Hammer and Rouf, 1995; Hammer et al., 1993), respectively.
  • Write HEADINGS in bold letters and in the center of the page.
  • Type your article only in ARIAL format.
  • Send TABLES and FIGURES on a separate page with bold title and mark its numbers correctly.
  • Observe the following rule for REFERENCE, for one author: Hussain, K. 1991 for two authors; Khan, M. and A. Habib 1995, for more than two; Ali, K., A. Hussain and S. Nasir, 1990.
  • Always send two soft copies and one hard copy of the CD. Please do not use FLOPPY DISK for this purpose.
  • Send copies on an A-4 size page, preferable LASER PRINT in the word document.
  • Papers published in the PSJ are free of charges (for authors).
  • Authors can also submit their papers as an email attachment to; shahid.afghan@shakarganj.com.pk

 

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

Submission of a manuscript infers that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, or thesis). It is also not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All works published by Plant Protection is available to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited.

 

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