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Authors are requested to send the manuscript by e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief. Photographs
that are important/essential for the understanding of the results should be attached as
separate files and must have high quality. On submitting a manuscript, the Editor-in-Chief
will check if it fits the scope of the journal and if it follows the journal guidelines.
Submissions which do not conform to these guidelines will be returned immediately to the
authors for correction before being sent for review. The manuscripts are sent to an
Associate Editor and reviewers will be selected based on their competence in specialized
areas of plant physiology. On submission, the authors may indicate up to five potential
reviewers with recognized competence in the research area of the manuscript. However, the
Associate Editors reserve the right to not follow these suggestions. The authors will receive
a letter from the Editor-in-Chief together with the reports of the reviewers. Manuscripts
where revision was requested should be returned to the Editor within 30 days; otherwise
they will be considered as new submissions. The revised version should be sent by email
and accompaniyed with a letter responding to the reviewer’s and editor’s comments.
Disregarded comments must be justified. Authors are requested to use Microsoft Word
Windows 95-2000 as word processor. Rejected manuscripts will only be returned to the
authors if they contain important comments from the reviewers which may contribute to the
author’s research.
MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES
Manuscripts that do not follow these guidelines will be promptly returned to authors before
reviewing. BJPP only accepts manuscripts written in clear, concise and fluent English. It is
strongly recommended that the text be checked by a native English-speaker who is familiar
with scientific writing and terminology. Arrange the manuscript in the following order:
Manuscript. To format the manuscript, please check a recent issue of BJPP. The pages
must be numbered consecutively, including figures and tables (see an example of this page
at the end of these instructions). The lines of each page must be numbered to aid reviewers.
In the first page include the title of the manuscript (in bold, capital letters, font size 16,
justified), author’s names (Size 12, justified) and affiliation (size 12, italicized and justified)
on this page. The senior corresponding author may be indicated by an asterisk. Abstracts
should not exceed more than 300 words. Authors should suggest three to six key words (in
alphabetical order) which do not appear in the title. Texts should be double-spaced type
written using Times New Roman font, on one side of Letter-size paper, with 3 cm margins
throughout. Scientific names should be in italics. Main headings (Introduction, Material
and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References) should be in bold
type, justified and separated from the text. They should be presented continuously. Results
and Discussion may be presented together only in exceptional circumstances. There should
be no repetition of results in the discussion. Main headings of sections should be typed in
italics and not separated from the text. Literature citations in the text should be cited in
chronological order and then sorted by author and year (ex. Styles, 1978; Meier and
Bowling, 1995; Meier et al., 1997). Do not italicize et al. References in the reference list
should be in alphabetical order. Unpublished observations or personal communications
should be mentioned in the text (e.g., T. Carter, personal communication; T. Carter and J.
Spanning, unpublished data). Avoid citing theses. Titles of periodicals should be
abbreviated according to the Bibliographic Guide for Editors and Authors – BIOSIS). The
homepage of the BJPP contains abbreviations for most journals in plant science.
Short communications are not intended to publish preliminary results. They should be
concise but also contain significant findings. Short communications must not have more
than ten doublespaced type-written pages, including tables and figures. They should be sent
with the first and second pages, (ta estranho) as for regular manuscripts, but they do not
have main headings. References should follow the text.