Guides for Agriculture and Food Science Authors

These guides are written for authors preparing work for publication in agriculture and food science. Each one answers a single question in full — how journals are scored, what a manuscript has to look like, why papers get rejected, what a DOI actually does — using this journal’s own published requirements rather than general advice.

Where a guide quotes a limit, a charge or a process, that figure comes from the Instructions to Author, the Peer Review and Publication Policy or the Open Access Policy page, and you can check it there. Every guide ends with a short set of frequently asked questions.

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What is an Indexed Agriculture Journal? Databases Explained

By Priyanka Bhatt • Aug 2026

What indexing means for an agriculture journal, how to verify a claim in the database itself, why logos prove nothing, and which databases actually matter to you..

Cover Letter for an Agriculture Journal Submission (With Template)

By Adam Novak • Aug 2026

What a cover letter for an agriculture journal must say, a template you can copy, how to write the paragraph that matters, and what to leave out..

Copyright and Licensing When You Publish in an Agriculture Journal

By Rosa Delgado • Aug 2026

You keep the copyright at this agriculture journal. What CC BY-NC permits, commercial use, repository rights, and reusing other people's figures and photographs..

How to Prepare Figures and Tables for an Agriculture Journal

By Yuki Tanaka • Aug 2026

Figure and table rules for an agriculture journal: 300 dpi at 75 or 155 mm, why your figure is not 300 dpi, readable plots at small size, and table conventions..

Vancouver Referencing for Agriculture Papers: A Practical Guide

By Erik Johansson • Aug 2026

Vancouver referencing for agriculture papers: numbered in citation order, six authors then et al., worked examples, and how to cite bulletins and datasets properly..

How to Write Results and Discussion in an Agriculture Paper

By Lucia Ferrari • Aug 2026

Where Results ends and Discussion begins: past tense with no references, the five moves of a Discussion, reporting contradictions, and why limitations help you..

How to Write the Materials and Methods Section of an Agriculture Paper

By Kwame Asante • Aug 2026

Write a Materials and Methods section a reviewer can evaluate: site, soil, season, design, replications and analysis, with a full before and after example..

How to Respond to Reviewer Comments from an Agriculture Journal

By Isabel Moreau • Aug 2026

How to answer reviewer comments from an agriculture journal: the response format that works, how to disagree without losing the paper, and five costly mistakes..

How to Choose Keywords for an Agriculture Research Paper

By Manish Yadav • Aug 2026

Choose 3 to 6 keywords covering crop, treatment, outcome and system, and never repeat your title. With before and after examples for agriculture papers..

What is an ISSN? Print vs Online ISSN for an Agriculture Journal Explained

By Ritu Chauhan • Aug 2026

What an ISSN is, why an agriculture journal has two, why one ends in X, how to verify it on the ISSN Portal, and what it cannot tell you about quality..