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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
General.
For initial review, submit the original and two copies of the
manuscript on 8 1/2 X 11 inch (216 X 279 mm) paper and three sets of
each figure to: Editorial Office, American Society of Sugar Beet
Technologists, 800 Grant Street, Suite 300, Denver CO 80203. In
an accompanying cover letter provide the author's name, telephone
number and e-mail address. Clear, high quality copies of figures
and graphs are acceptable for the review process. Manuscripts must be
in English. Use sugarbeet rather than sugar beet throughout. Type
all material double-spaced, including title, by-line, abstract, text,
literature cited, figure legends, and tables. In the upper right
corner of each page, type JSBR, the author(s) name(s), and the page
number. Tables should be on numbered pages after the literature cited
section; legends for figures, on a separate numbered page, should
follow the tables. Submit papers with lines numbered separately
on each page.
Manuscripts may be emailed
for initial review in Word or WordPerfect format, to "tom@bsdf-assbt.org".
Format.
Consult current issues for arrangement of heads and subheads, use
of capital letters, indentations, etc.
Title. The title should reflect the important
aspects of the article as concisely as possible, preferably in no more
than 100 characters and spaces. Do not include in the title both common
and scientific names for plants
or other organisms. When scientific names are used in the title,
do not
include authorities but the scientific name with the authority should
be
used at the first mention of the plant or other organism in the
manuscript.
The title may he footnoted, with the footnote giving information
on joint contributions, source of funds, etc.
By-line. The by-line contains the
authors' names (first name and initial or two initials, followed by
surname), under which are the authorsā addresses.
Abstract. An abstract is
required for all manuscripts. Limit abstracts to one paragraph of no
more than 200 words. Indent the abstract five spaces from the left and
right to set it apart from the text. Always include the common and
scientific name(s) of the organism(s) studied with the authority in the
abstract if the organism is first mentioned in the abstract.
Below the abstract, after the subheading Additional Key Words,
list
words or phrases that would be useful in index retrieval systems; do
not repeat words or phrases used in the title.
Text. The major sections after the
introductory statements are MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and LITERATURE CITED; RESULTS and DISCUSSION may be
combined. Subheads may he
used, but excessive fragmentation of the text should be avoided.
Footnotes
are discouraged. Tables and figures must be cited in numerical
order. Text references should use the author-year (Jones,
1999) system.
Tables.
Titles should he self-explanatory and include enough information so
that each table is intelligible without reference to the text or other
tables. The title should summarize the information presented in
the table without repeating the subheadings. Subheadings should
be brief. Abbreviations are acceptable; nonstandard ones should
be explained in footnotes.
Two types of footnotes are used with tables: those to show statistical
significance and those to give supplementary information. The * and **
always are used in this order to show statistical significance (or
nonsignificance) at the 0.05 and 0.01 probability levels,
respectively, and cannot be used for other footnotes. Lack of
significance at any level usually is indicated by NS. Supplementary
notes
are given the following symbols in this order:
These symbols should be cited just as you would read a table - from
left to right and from top to bottom. When asterisks are part of a
table, they precede the other notes. Draw symbols by hand, if
necessary; do not use numbers or letters. Within the table, numbers
with the same unit and/or equal length should be centered in the
column. If they are unequal, center the longest one and align the rest
on the decimal point. Single-column tables should be avoided; include
material in text.
Figures.
Illustrations must be
originals and of high quality. Glossy prints should be clear and
cropped at right angles to show only essential details. Figures must be
legible when reduced to
4 inch (102 mm) width by no more than 7 inch (190 mm) height, including
caption. A scale bar should be included on the photo when size
relationships are important. Composites should be marked with index
lines.
Each illustration should be labeled with the figure number, authorās
name,
and JSBR. Captions should be fully descriptive so that the
illustrations
are understandable when considered apart from the text.
Computer-generated
graphs and figures are acceptable if they are of reproduction quality
and compatible with Word or Word Perfect formats.
Literature cited.
All references listed must
be cited in the text and must be accurate and complete. List in
alphabetical order by authorsā surnames; do not number. When citing
multiple works by
the same author, list single-authorship articles before those by
several authors. Determine the sequence by alphabetizing the first
authorās surname and junior authorsā surnames, by the year of
publication
(most recent last), and, if necessary, by the page numbers of articles
published in the same journal. Underline or italicize Latin binomials.
List
total pages of theses and bulletins and specific pages of books.
Refer to Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index for journal
abbreviations.
Do not abbreviate one-word titles of journals and publications. An
example of a journal citation is:
Brewbaker, J. L. and S. K. Majumder. 1961. Cultural
studies of
the pollen population effect
and the self-incompatibility inhibition. Am. J. Bot.
48:457-464.
An example of a book citation is:
Towill, L. E. 1985. Low temperature and
freeze-vacuum-drying preservation of pollen.
Pages 171-198. In K. K. Kartha (ed.). Cryopreservation of Plant Cells and Organs.
CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL. 534 pp.
Do not list a work in preparation, submitted but not accepted for
publication, or not readily available in libraries. Cite the work
parenthetically in the text: (J.. J. Jones, unpublished) or (J. J.
Jones, personal communication). Written permission from the person(s)
cited as the source of unpublished information must be provided
when the manuscript is submitted. Avoid excessive reference to
unpublished
information, as such data cannot be evaluated by reviewers or readers.
Editorial style.
After acceptance for
publication, manuscripts are edited for style, grammar, clarity of
presentation, preciseness, and conciseness of statements by two or more
anonymous reviewers, an Associate Editor
and the Editor. Preferred spellings are according to
Merriam-Websterās
Dictionary. Helpful reference books are CBE Style Manual and
The
ACS Style Guide. The metric system is required; alternate
units
may be given in parentheses after the metric. Use numerals before
standard units of measurement, e.g., 1 g, 9 hr; otherwise use words
for numbers one through nine and numerals for larger numbers.
Nonstandard
abbreviations should be avoided unless they facilitate comprehension or
save significant space; at first use, spell out the term and enclose
the
abbreviation in parentheses. Scientific names of higher plants
and organisms should be given once with the authorities following the
common
name at first mention in a manuscript. The common name
should be used
alone thereafter. Fungicides, herbicides and insecticides should
be identified
at first mention in the manuscript by the approved common name,
followed
by the chemistry of the compound in parentheses and, if desired, by the
trade name. The common name should be used thereafter in the
text. Ambiguous
characters ÷ e.g., the letter o and the number 0, a prime sign and
an apostrophe, the letter I and the number 1, the multiplication symbol
and the letter X ÷ should be clearly identified in the left margin
of the text.
Statistical methods.
The appropriate
statistical procedure should be used for analyzing and summarizing
data. The analysis should be
carefully selected after considering the original experimental design,
the treatment design, and all factors that may have affected the
experiment, e.g., missing data. Several procedures are appropriate
for separating treatment means, and several uses of mean separation
procedures
are inappropriate. The following (from Agronomy Journal 75:1059)
are considered inappropriate:
1. The use of multiple range tests or other pairwise
procedures when treatments have an
obvious structure and/or when planned single degree of freedom contrasts were built
into the experiment;
2. the use of multiple range tests or other pairwise
procedures to compare means from
quantitative treatments such as rates of fertilizer or pesticides, plant density, seeding
rates, time, or temperature
ranges;
3. comparisons of factorial treatment combinations
by multiple range tests without
consideration of the estimation of main effects and numerical data represent (e.g.,
means of how many
replicates).
Within MATERIALS AND METHODS, or sometimes RESULTS, define experimental
designs used, number of replicates, and statistical analyses
performed. Indicate in table footnotes or figure captions, what
numerical data represent (e.g., means of how many replicates). In
general, conclusions should be based on repeated experiments.
REVIEW, REVISION AND
RESUBMISSION.
The ASSBT office will send submitted papers to the Editor. The
Editor will review each paper and forward it to an Associate Editor
with expertise that best fits the paper topic. The Associate
Editor will review the
paper and also select two additional reviewers. Thus, each paper
will
be reviewed by four people. The Associate Editor will work with
the author
to assure that appropriate revisions are incorporated into the
paper.
A paper may be rejected if the Associate Editor and Editor believe that
observed deficiencies cannot be fixed.
After revisions, both a hard copy and a computer file of the paper (on a 3.5" floppy disk), should be sent back to the Associate Editor. Microsoft Word and Corel Word Perfect are preferred formats. Separate files of graphs and figures should be compatible with Word or Word Perfect. Reproduction-quality originals of all graphs and figures should be included Disks should be labeled with author(s) names, title and date.
If the Associate
Editor agrees that the revisions are adequate then the paper will be
sent to the Editor for one final review, after which the Editor will
send the paper to the ASSBT office for creation of a galley proof in
the official Journal format. The author will receive a copy of
the galley proof for final review. The galley proof should
then be returned to the ASSBT office for publication in the next
available
issue of the Journal.
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