Agricultural Science Letters [ASL] is an international peer-reviewed, open-access Journal dedicated to cater the needs of the researchers and scientists who are working on the current advancements in Agricultural Sciences. The goal of this Journal is to provide a platform for the scientists all over the world to present, share and promote various aspects pertaining to the newer issues and perspectives in Agricultural Science and related disciplines.

All the manuscripts have to be prepared in English language and are subjected to a rigorous and international peer-review process. All the accepted manuscripts will appear online within 2 to 3 weeks from the date of completion of the peer-review process. The Journal publishes original work pertaining to the following Agricultural and related subfields: 

•Agricultural Technologies
•Crop production and management
•Vegetable Production and Management
•Production of fruits
•Agricultural Genetics 
•Agronomy 
•Agricultural Machinery and Equipment 
•Weed and its eradication
•Use of Pesticides and insecticides
•Agricultural Biotechnology
•Seed and Grain Technology
•Aquaculture
•Organic Farming and its management
•Plantation products and flavor technology
•All the aspects of agriculture science and natural resources

The work from 2 to 8 pages in the Prescribed Format/Template where author/s can present either a detailed study in form of a short paper or a preliminary data or a novel idea in the form of a Letter will be published in this Journal. 

Professor M. A. PASHA (Retd.,)
Editor-in-Chief (Incharge)
Bangalore University, INDIA
E-mail: chief.editoresra@gmail.com

DR. FARZANA KHAN PERVEEN
Founder Chairperson & Associate Professor 
Department of Zoology, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University,
Sheringal, Dir Upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan
E-mail: farzana_san@hotmail.com

Note: 1. Editor/s-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Assistant Editors, Editorial board members, Reviewers and other Members do not receive any honorarium or remuneration. These are nominated positions and are voluntarily accepted by the individual academicians.

         2. If a Researcher/Scientist/Academician working in this field is voluntarily agreeing to be an Editor or a member of the Editorial Board, kindly submit your Resume/CV to chief.editoresra@gmail.com  [mention the email subject: Interested  to serve as an Editor/Editorial Board Member].

Use Microsoft Word Software and Times New Roman Letters for preparing the manuscript with double spacing (Use 14 Font size letters for the Title and 12 Font size letters for the rest of the manuscript).

The authors should ensure that, the manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked' before submission.

In order to verify originality of the work presented in the manuscript, your article may be checked by the originality detection service providers such as CrossCheck services.

Authors can use this check list to prepare their manuscripts before submission to the Journal for the Review process.

Title of the Article: Title should be concise and meaningful.

Complete Name/s of the Author/s:

One author should be designated as the corresponding author and his/her contact details have to be provided:
E-mail address:

Fax details:

Phone number/s:
Full postal address:

Provide the Address of all the authors, if from different institutions/countries.

Abstract/Graphical Abstract: Brief outlay of the work presented in the manuscript should reflect here.

Key words: (Maximum 6 Key words)

1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion

There can be sub-divisions such as 2.1, 2.2 …. 2.1.1, 2.1.2…. under Results and Discussion.

References should be cited using the superscript format(^{1, 2‒4, 5,6, 7‒11}) 

The Figures and Schemes should include relevant captions.
The Table/s should include title/s, description, literature citation (if any) and footnote/s.
 

     3. Experimental (for subjects where experiments are involved, including Science and Engineering subjects)

     4. Conclusions

     5. Acknowledgement/s

     6. Financial Assistance:  Financial assistance from the funding agencies to be mentioned here; if there is no funding involved, it should be mentioned clearly as ‘this work is not funded by any funding agencies’.

     7. Conflict of Interest: Declarations/disclose of the conflict of interest has to be made by the authors.
 

     8. References

Format:

Reference to a Journal publication:
[1]. S. Al-B. Abdullah, S. S. Tamer, M. Z. Ehab. Ultrason. Sonochem., 2013, 20, 1194–1202.

Reference to Article by DOI:

[2]. M. K. Slifka, J. L. Whitton. Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J. Mol. Med., 2000, doi:10.1007/s001090000086.

Reference to a Book:
[3] J. L. Luche, T. J. Mason. Sonochemistry, experiment to theoretical considerations: Advances in Sonochemistry, ed., JAI Press, London, 1993.

Reference to a chapter in an Edited Book:
[4] B. Brown, M. Aaron. The politics of nature. In: J. Smith (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3^rd  Edn. Wiley, New York, 2001, pp 230−257.
 

Reference to a website:
[5] J. Bean. How the Internet has Changed (and created new) Holiday Rituals. Available at: http://www.techerator.com/2010/11/how -the-internet-has-changed-and-created-newholiday-rituals/, 2010. [Accessed 12 October 2013].

Supplementary Data should be provided along with the manuscript.

Apart from this,

Names of Referees (any FIVE) and their complete contact details who are working in the same/similar field of Research should be provided in a separate file.

Authors should also provide (if any) the copies of the permission obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources including the Internet.

The authors should assure that, the work described in the article has not been published previously, except in the form of an abstract in a conference/symposium/seminar or as part of the academic thesis and it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its publication is approved by all the authors and by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form in English language or in any other language, including the electronic media.

Note: If you find difficulty in submitting your manuscript through Login, you can directly submit it to submit@esrapublications.com OR chief.editoresra@gmail.com

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The online Open Access publication process involves, the costs including those pertaining to the maintenance of the infrastructure, routine operation of the Journals, processing of the manuscripts, editing, formatting, publishing online, indexing, archiving and maintaining the records. To cover these costs, the ESRA Publishers depend largely on the Publication Processing Fee (PPF), which is also called article processing charge. PPF is due only when a manuscript is accepted for online publication.

There is no submission fee, no Registration charges and there are no page charges.

Under certain very special conditions/circumstances where the author/s from under-developed and developing countries are not in a position to pay the Publication Processing Fee due to non-availability of the funds/grants; such work will be discounted or funded by the ESRA Publications Fund initially, on request.

The mode of payment will be informed to the authors through an E-message once the article is accepted for publication.

Publication Processing Fee