Departamentos

General features

The journal "Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, La Plata" (Rev. Fac. de Agron., La Plata), publishes original articles in Spanish or English on any aspect of agricultural and forest research. The journal considers for publication, Articles: original and previously unpublished papers with results of research leading to a significant extension of knowledge. Communications: papers with results of current research, development of new techniques or methodologies. Reviews: papers that resume the state of the knowledge on a certain subject. Authors must give assurance that their manuscripts are unplublished and are not being considered for publication, in whole or in part, by another journal

Authors whose papers has been accepted must pay $ 50 (fifty pesos) for articles not longer than 8 pages, otherwise $ 10 (ten pesos) will be paid for extra page. For less number of pages $ 30 (thirty pesos) will be charged.

Inadequately prepared manuscripts or out of the scope of the Journal will be returned to the authors without review. Authors are asked to state, in a letter accompanying the manuscript, names, addresses, telephone, fax numbers, and electronic mail of 3 qualified experts to act as possible referees. Manuscripts will be reviewed for two or three anonymous referees.

Manuscripts for publication should be submited to the Editor in Chief or Associated Editors.

Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, La Plata. CC 31, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
(Te: +54 (0221) 423-6618/422-5931/426-6758/423-6616 - Fax: +54 (0221) 425-2346).
E-mail: revagro@ceres.agro.unlp.edu.ar

    THE MANUSCRIPT

The original copy and two duplicates are required. All parts of the manuscript, should be typewritten, double-spaced, on paper A4 with numbered lines and pages and margins of 2.5 cm. No spelling is recommended. The titles (in uppercase and bold), subtitles (in lowercase and bold) and subtitles of second level (in lowercase and italic) will be written in the left margin.

    Presentation of the manuscript

Cover page: a) complete paper title, b) authors, with their institution and postal addresses, and, c) name, postal addres, telephone, fax numbers and electronic mail of the corresponding author. This cover page is removed during the editorial process. The following pages should contain: a) Title, b) Summary (up to 250 words), c) Key words (five, in order of importance), d) running title, e) Title in Spanish, f) Resumen in Spanish, g) Palabras clave, and, h) the main text with the following sections (if possible): Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discusion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Tables, Figures, Photographs, and, Figures and Photographs captions. Tables, Figures and Photographs captions must be translated to Spanish.

    The publication process

Once the manuscript is accepted, the final version (two duplicates) and an electronic copy should be submitted. Text files and figure files should be submitted on disks IBM PC compatible. The disk must be labelled clearly with authors’ name and files names with their extensions and word-processing and graphic software used (version number) must be indicated. WordPefect or Word are preferred, if not, documents should be send as an ASCII file. Our preferred graphic software are Qpro, Excel or CorelDraw or in CGM, WMF, TIFF, PCX or BMP format. The galley proofs must be checked by the authors and must be returned within 7 (seven) days of receipt. The Journal provides 25 reprints free of charge.

    Abbreviations and scientific names

Abbreviations for names, proccedures, etc. must be defined the first time they occur. The use of SI units is required. The dates should be written as follow: 8 february 1997. When a species is first mentioned, the vernacular name (if any) and scientific name (italic or underlined), with the author, should be given. Subsequently, either the vernacular or the scientific name, without the author, may be used. In the title, the names of organisms should be either in the vernacular or in Latin without their authors. In the summary and resumen the names of organisms should be in Latin or vernacular with their authors.

    References

The references must follow the form (Smith & Robinson, 1987), Smith & Robinson (1987), (Robinson et al., 1980; Smith & Anderson, 1978); (Smith, 1970; 1972).The papers with three or more authors should be cited as: Smith et al., (1986). If references occur that are not uniquely identified by the authors’ name and year, use , a, b, c, etc. after the year (e.g. Smith & Robinson, 1988a; 1988b). Personal communications should be cited as (Robinson, pers. com., 1980). References must be listed in alphabetical order according to the name of the first author and not numered. References with the same first author are listed in the following order. (1) Papers with one author only are listed first in chronological order, beginning with the earliest paper. (2) Papers with dual authorship follow and are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the second author. (3) Paper with three or more authors appear after (2) and are arranged chronologically. The references must be written as the following examples:

    Journal articles

Roberts H.A. 1986. Seed persistence in soil and seasonal emergence in plant species from different habitats. Journal of Applied Ecology 23: 639-656.

Moss D.N. & R.B. Musgrave. 1971. Photosynthesis and crop production. Advances in Agronomy 23: 317-336.

    Book Chapters

Slafer G.A., E. Satorre & F.H. Andrade. 1994. Increases in grain yield in bread wheat from breeding and associated physiological changes. In: Genetic Improvement in Field Crops. Slafer G.A., Ed. Marcel Dekker, New York. pp. 1-68.

    Books

Kozlowski T.T. 1984. Flooding and Plant Growth. Academic Press, New York. 356 pp.

   Papers in Proceedings

Paranjohy K., O. Rohani, A.H. Tarmizi, C.S. Tan & C.C. Tan. 1989. Current status and strategies for oil palm tissue culture research. Proceedings of PORIM International Palm Oil Development Conference. PORIM, Serdang. pp. 109-121.

    Thesis, Reports, etc.

Cantos de Ruiz S. 1988. Rendimiento potencial del cultivo de papa en Balcarce. Causas que limitan la productividad real. M. Sc. Tesis. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, UN Mar del Plata, Balcarce, Argentina. 51 pp.

Iannone N. 1986. Impresiones sobre la evolución de la población de insectos en soja. Carpeta de Producción Vegetal. Tomo VII. INTA, EEA Pergamino. 6 pp.

    Tables

Tables must be numbered with Arabic numbers and should have a brief title (in english and spanish). Each table must be self-explanatory. Vertical lines should not be used. In the text Table position must be indicated in a separated line, e.g. (Table 1, here). Each table should be typed on separate pages and placed after the list of references.

    Illustrations

Each figure or group of figures should be included on separate pages, numbered with Arabic numbers and follow the tables. In the text their position must be indictated, e.g. (Figure 1, here). The maximum finished size of a one-column illustration is 6.5 x 19.7 cm and that of a two-column ilustration is 13.3 x 19.7 cm. Illustrations should be made with Indian ink on plain white paper. Computer-generated illustrations must be printed with laser or inkjet printer on withe paper. Lettering must be arial. Only in the original version the authors’ name must be typewritten at the back side of each figure. Axes’ thickness must be of 0.3 mm. The symbols will not less than 2.0 mm in diameter or size. The photographs should be included only when they are essential. They must be made on glossy paper. Black and white, and colour photographs are admitted. Authors will be responsible for the costs of colours photographs. Currently the cost is U$S 500 per page or part of a page. Legends for figures and photographs should be typewritten in english and spanish on separate pages.