Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The consent of all the authors of this paper has been obtained for submitting the paper to the journal.
- The authors certify that proper citations to the previously reported work have been given and no data/tables/figures have been quoted verbatim from other publications without giving due acknowledgement and without the permission of the author(s). Written permission is obtained from the rightsholder in order to re-use any copyrighted material as figures, tables or text excerpts. In the case of open access content, the terms of use required by Creative Commons licenses are respected.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format (.doc or .docx) and the text is written from left to right direction.
- The text is single-spaced, lines are numbered and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points.
- The submission is proof-read and checked for language errors.
- For research involving human subjects or animals, the author(s) identifies the Committee approving the experiments and provide confirmation that all experiments conform to the relevant regulatory standards.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Agronomy section
Within the Agronomy section we publish original scientific articles. The coverage embraces a wide range of topics that relate to plant production and processing, including agronomy, horticulture, plant biotechnology, plant-related food-and-nutrition research, agricultural economics, information-science, ecology, environmental studies, plant physiology & ecology, rural development & sociology, soil sciences and related research.
Animal Science section
Within the Animal Science section we publish original scientific articles, preliminary communications and research statements. The coverage embraces a wide range of topics that relate to animal production and processing, including animal genetics, microbiology, immunology, nutrition, physiology, ecology, ethology, dairy science, economics, bioinformatics, animal-related food-and-nutrition research, technology and related research.
Letters to Editor
Letters to the editor were introduced with the aim of adding information to previously published articles. However, critical comments that open discussion with the authors of published articles are welcome. The length of letters to the editor is limited to 2000 characters (including spaces). For substantive comments or additional information, the editors will contact the authors of the original article with a request for a brief response. Responses are also limited to 2000 characters (including spaces).
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (online) in journal Acta agriculturae Slovenica by University of Ljubljana Press / Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jamnikarjeva ulica 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of the publisher.
- Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.