期刊名称：ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
 Annals of Applied Biology is an international journal sponsored by the Association of Applied Biologists. The journal publishes original research papers on all aspects of applied research on crop production, crop protection and the cropping ecosystem. The journal is published both online and in six printed issues per year.
Submission of manuscripts to Annals is exclusively via a web-based electronic submission and tracking system at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aab enabling rapid submission to first decision times.
Before submitting a paper for publication in Annals of Applied Biology, potential authors should first read the Author Guidelines. Instructions as to how to upload your manuscript can be found on ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Annals papers must contribute substantially to the advancement of knowledge and may, among others, encompass the scientific disciplines of:
- Agronomy
- Agrometeorology
- Agrienvironmental sciences
- Applied genomics
- Applied metabolomics
- Applied proteomics
- Biodiversity
- Biological control
- Climate change
- Crop ecology
- Entomology
- Genetic manipulation
- Molecular biology
- Mycology
- Nematology
- Pests
- Plant pathology
- Plant breeding & genetics
- Plant physiology
- Post harvest biology
- Soil science
- Statistics
- Virology
- Weed biology
Annals also welcomes reviews of interest in these subject areas. Reviews should be critical surveys of the field and offer new insights. All papers are subject to peer review. Papers must usually contribute substantially to the advancement of knowledge in applied biology but short papers discussing techniques or substantiated results, and reviews of current knowledge of interest to applied biologists will be considered for publication. Papers or reviews must not be offered to any other journal for prior or simultaneous publication and normally average seven printed pages.
Author benefits include:
- Online manuscript submission and tracking
- Fast, efficient refereeing of manuscripts
- No page charges
- Rapid publication
- Abstracts of papers published on the AAB website prior to publication as a finished issue
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Soils and Fertilizers
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Instructions to Authors
The Association of Applied Biologists holds the authors, not the Association, Editors or Referees, entirely responsible for the content of material that is published.
Submission of a manuscript to Annals of Applied Biology implies that all persons listed as authors qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify are listed.
Authors must only submit their own original work to the journal. A submitted manuscript must not contain any material that has been previously published or is under consideration as an article in another journal or book. This includes any type of article, whether published in print or on line.
All previous discoveries and information must be correctly acknowledged with the full original reference clearly cited. Authors should be aware that the unreferenced use of the published and unpublished ideas, writing or illustrations of others, from whatever source (including research grant applications), in the same or a different language, constitutes plagiarism. When necessary, Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any copyright material, and include an acknowledgement of the source in their article.
EXCLUSIVE LICENCE FORM
Authors are required to sign an exclusive licence form (ELF) granting the Association of Applied Biologists exclusive publishing rights for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher unless a signed form has been received. Signature of the ELF does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. After publication authors retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/ circumstances (please refer to the form for more information). The ELF can be downloaded from the Annals online submission website http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aab
Production will not start on your paper until we are in receipt of a signed exclusive licence form.
Government employees need to complete the AUTHOR WARRANTY sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned. For multi-author papers, it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to assign copyright, on behalf of all contributors.
SUBMISSIONS
Pre-submission English-language editing
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.
Manuscripts
Annals requires online submission at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aab. This enables the quickest possible review.
Manuscript submission online can be as Word document (.doc) or RTF (.rtf). If using LaTeX please upload a PDF file of the manuscript for the reviewers - note that upon acceptance we will require your TeX/LaTeX source files to edit and typeset the article. Figures can be embedded in the native word processor file or uploaded separately as GIF (.gif), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), or EPS (.eps). On acceptance, you will be required to provide high resolution graphics files (note that GIF (.gif), JPEG (.jpg), and PNG (.png) files are not acceptable). Full upload instructions and support are available online from the submission site via the Get Help Now button. Please submit your covering letter or comments to the Senior Editor when prompted online.
Word 2007
Will authors please note that Word 2007 is not yet compatible with journal production systems. Unfortunately, the journal cannot accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents until such time as a stable production version is released. Please use Word's 'Save As' option therefore to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
Revisions
Revised manuscripts must be submitted in their final form, within 2 months of authors being notified of conditional acceptance (pending satisfactory revision). Resubmissions after this time will be considered as new.
PRESENTATION
Text
Text should be divided into the following sections and appear in the order: (1) title page (with short running page heading, title, authors names and affiliations), (2) summary, (3) keywords, (4) introduction, (5) materials and methods, (6) results, (7) discussion, (8) acknowledgements, (9) references, (10) supplementary material, (11) tables, (12) figure legends, (13) figures.
Authorities for the latin binomial of every organism are not used in the title or summary, and only on the first mention in the main body of the text. Common names of pests and diseases should follow 'MAFF Technical Bulletin No. 6' and the 'List of Common British Plant Diseases' compiled by the British Mycological Society.
Gene names and loci should be italic, proteins should be roman.
Virus nomenclature (and acronyms) should follow the guidelines of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). The current report is: van Regenmortel MHV, Fauquet CM, Bishop DHL (Eds) (2001) Virus Taxonomy: Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy Viruses. San Diego: Academic Press. Authors are also advised to check the ITCV website for the latest information.
Chemical nomenclature should follow the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) definitive rules for nomenclature.
Pesticides and other industrial products should be referred to by their common names (ISO Publications 1831, 2474, etc.). In the absence of a common name, use the full name or a defined abbreviation, in preference to a trade name. At first mention, trade names should be capitalised.
Statistics: The design of all experiments should be explicit and clear. All deductions made from experiments should be checked by a statistician. Designed experiments should be summarised by means and corresponding standard errors of differences between means (SEDs), or standard errors of means (SEs), and degrees of freedom. The use of multiple comparison procedures such as Duncan's or Tukey's is prohibited. Help and advice from the Annals statistical editors is available to authors.
Symbols, units and abbreviations should be expressed as Système International (SI) units. In exceptional circumstances, others may be used, provided they are consistent. Apply to the Editorial Office for advice.
References
References in the text should be inserted in parentheses in full for single and dual authored papers, but using the first author and et al. for multiple authored papers. Reference to personal communications, unedited and un-refereed work, and work that is unpublished should be minimal and should appear in the text only. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission from colleagues to include their work as a personal communication.
References in the list should follow the Harvard system. Refer to a recent copy of the journal for examples.
We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here.
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here.
Supplementary Material
Quantitative biological data too extensive for inclusion in the print edition of the journal may be presented in the online edition, as supplementary material (supp. mat.). As such, it will be reviewed as an integral part of the paper. The availability of supp. mat. should be indicated in the main manuscript by a paragraph, to appear after the references, providing titles of figures, tables, etc. There are guidelines regarding supplementary material here.
Graphics
Numerical results should be presented either as tables or figures, but not both. The journal welcomes colour figures and plates, when information would be lost if reproduced in black and white. Please note there is a charge for colour in print - if you have colour figures please fill in the form here. In the event that an author is not able to cover the costs of reproducing colour figures in colour in the printed version of the journal, Annals of Applied Biology offers authors the opportunity to reproduce colour figures in colour for free in the online version of the article (but they will still appear in black and white in the print version). If an author wishes to take advantage of this free colour-on-the-web service, they should liaise with the Editorial Office to ensure that the appropriate documentation is completed for the Publisher.
Electronic artwork: Annals requires submission of electronic artwork. Vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) should be saved in Encapsulated Postscript Format (.eps), and half-tones in Tagged Image File Format (.tif). TIFF files should be supplied at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch) at the final size at which they are to appear in the journal. Colour files should be in CMYK format. Labelling should be in 10pt Times New Roman. Figure sections should be designated with upper case letters. Magnification bars should be given on electron and light micrographs. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at this webpage.
Tables: Tables should be typed on separate pages, as an integral part the text file. They should have a brief descriptive title and be self-explanatory. Units should appear in parentheses in the column headings, not in the body of the table. Repeated words or numerals on successive lines should be written in full. Footnotes should be minimal. When the precision of data is expressed as standard error (se) or standard errors of differences (sed) the degrees of freedom (df) should be given.
Legends: Table and figure legends should be included within the text file and contain sufficient information to be understood without reference to the text. Each should begin with a short title for the figure. Refer to a recent copy of the journal for the prefered ordering off symbols. All symbols and abbreviations should be explained within the legend.
Cover images: Electronic artwork/original photographs of high quality suitable for the cover of Annals are welcomed. They should be sent to the Editorial Office and be accompanied by a relevant caption. It is preferred, but not essential, that images should be related to submitted papers. Contributors are required to assign copyright to the Association by UK law.
PROOFS
Proofs will be sent via email as a PDF file. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Acrobat Reader is required in order to read this file. This can be downloaded (free of charge) from Adobe.
In your absence, please arrange for a colleague to correct on your behalf.
OFFPRINTS
A PDF is provided upon publication to the corresponding author. Paper offprints can be purchased prior to print publication from COS Printers.
AUTHOR MATERIAL ARCHIVE POLICY
Please note that unless specifically requested, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted two months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or production editor (aab@wiley.com) as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Jari PT Valkonen
Department of Applied Biology
PO Box 27 (Latokartanonkaari 7)
University of Helsinki
FIN-00014
Finland
Tel: +358-9-19158387
Fax: +358-9-19158727
Email: jpvalkon@mappi.helsinki.fi
Editorial Office:
Carol Millman
Association of Applied Biologists
c/o Warwick HRI
Wellesbourne
Warwick
CV35 9EF
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 2476 574998
Fax: +44 (0)1789 470234
Email: carol@aab.org.uk
Senior Editors:
RA de Azevedo, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Email: raazeved@carpa.ciagri.usp.br
PJ Lea, Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster, UK
Email: p.lea@lancaster.ac.uk
SR Leather, Biological Sciences, Imperial College, UK
Email: s.leather@imperial.ac.uk
JW McNicol, Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Dundee, UK
Email: jim@bioss.ac.uk
MAJ Parry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
Email: martin.parry@bbsrc.ac.uk
Editorial Board:
M Abberton, IGER Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, UK
AJ Able, University of Adelaide, Australia
J Andralojc, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
M Andrews, Northumbrian Water Ecology Centre, University of Sunderland, UK
MA Aranda, Universidad de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
S Azam-Ali, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, UK
J E Bakkert, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
RD Bancroft, Post Harvest Assistance, Maidstone, UK
AM Borland, University of Newcastle, UK
J Brown, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
GT Champion, Broom's Barn Research Station, Bury St Edmunds, UK
S Chapman, Plant Industry, Queensland, Australia
AJ Cherrill, Health, University of Sunderland, UK
MFB Dale, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK
K Davies, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmund S. Australia
RG Dietzgen, University of Queensland, Australia
M Dow, BIOMERIT Research Centre, Cork, Ireland
B Ekbom, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Uppsala, Sweden
EW Evans, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
A Gal-On, The Volcani Centre - ARO, Bet Dagan, Israel
Y Gan, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
KL Giles, Oklahoma State University, USA
DM Glen, Styloma Research & Consulting, Cheddar, UK
S R Gowen, University of Reading, Reading, UK
PS Grewal, The Ohio State University, OH, USA
G Gurr, Charles Sturt University, Australia
PPJ Haydock, Harper Adams University College, UK
M Hodda, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
P Jamieson, Institute for Crop and Food Research, Christchurch, New Zealand
AH Kingston-Smith, Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, UK
K Latiri, Tunisian National Institute of Agronomy Research, Arania, Tunisia
S A MacFarlane, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK
O Manninen, MTT, Jonkioinen, Finland
C Marcone, University of Salerno, Italy
P Mazzafera, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
AR McCracken, Department of Agriculture & Rural Development, Belfast, UK
H Medrano, Universitat de les Illes Ballears, Majorca, Spain
L W Meinhardt, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MA, USA
TJ Miller, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
M Moens, ILVO, Merelbeke, Belgium
A J Murdoch, University of Reading, Reading, UK
R Neilson, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK
M A Newman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
E Paparozzi, University of Nebraska, USA
C Peterhaensel, Institute for Biology, Aachen, Germany
W Powell, IBERS, Aberystwyth, UK
S J Powers, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
A Price, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
N A Provorov, All-Russia Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology, Russia
PA Roberts, University of California, CA, USA
D Saville, AgResearch, Canterbury, New Zealand
S Seal, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, UK
P Smith, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK
TH Sparks, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Monkswood, UK
M Stevens, Broom's Barn Research Station, Bury St Edmunds, UK
PC Struik, Plant Science, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
GCC Tai, Potato Research Centre Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Canada
J E Thomas, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Indooroopilly, Australia
S. Timonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
J. Trumble, University of California, CA, USA
RGF Visser, Plant Breeding, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
JA Walsh, Warwick HRI, Wellesbourne, UK
D Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
L Ward, Central Science Laboratory, York, UK
D Way, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
L Winder, Department of Biology, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
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