Guidelines for Authors

1. The Potato Journal publishes reviews (by invitation), full length papers and short notes. Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Indian Potato Association, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla-170 001, India. All the authors should be members of the association (may be relaxed for foreign authors).

2. All manuscripts submitted for publication will be peer reviewed and assessed by the Editor-in-Chief for the acceptability and any necessary modifications required. A paper already published or under consideration for publication, wholly or substantially elsewhere, cannot be accepted.

3. Manuscripts must be in English, type-written double spaced with at least 4 cm margin, on one side of good quality paper and should be submitted in triplicate along with the soft copy in MS word. Foreign authors may submit the MS as e-mail attachment to potatojournal@gmail.com. A short running title be provided on a separate sheet in addition to the full title of the paper. Full names (s) and address (es) should be included on the first page. The name of the corresponding author responsible for correcting the proof should be clearly indicated on a separate sheet, with complete address along with the e-mail address.

4. Full length paper should consist of Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgement and Literature Cited.

5. A paper of limited significance my be restricted to 4-5 pages in length and may be submitted as a ‘Short Note’ in which the Abstract is omitted. In case of short notes text should not be divided into sections except for Acknowledgement and Literature cited.

6. Due to the high cost of production, only essential information should be included in the paper. Numerical results should be presented either as tables or diagrams. Only essential tables, diagrams and 12 typed pages including tables, figures, references and abstract will normally be accepted. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words. Manuscripts must conform to the typographic usage of the Journal in all respects. Manuscripts requiring more than minor corrections will be returned to the authors for modification.

7. Diagrams should be about twice the size of the finished block. Photographs must be black and white with adequate contrast printed on white, glossy paper to allow for 1/4 to 1/2 reduction. Digital (computer created) diagrams are preferred. Colour photographs will be printed only if authors agree to pay the charges for it. Each table, diagram and photograph must have a caption. Diagrams and photographs are taken together as figures and are numbered serially as Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 etc. Tables and figures with their captions should be submitted separately from the text in which only their eventual position should be indicated.

8. Literature cited must be listed alphabetically at the end of the article, according to the Harvard System as follows : Serial number, name and initial (s) of the author, year of publication (further distinguished by the addition of a small a, b, c, to the date where more than one paper published by the same author (s) in the same year is cited), full title of paper (to be omitted in case of short notes), abbreviated title of periodical as used in ‘Biological Abstracts’, volume number in arabic numerals and first and last page number of the article.

   The Style for citation of journals (1), books (2), and multi authored books (3) is given below:

   1.    Khurana, S.M. Paul, G.S. Shekhawat and B.B. Nagaich. 1983. Light microscopy of potato plants for detection of three mycoplasmal diseases. J. Indian Potato Assoc. 10: 60-63.

   2.    Dixon, M. and E.C. Webb. 1964. Enzymes, 2nd Edn, pp. 562-64. Longmans Green, London, UK.

   3.    Burton, W.G. 1963. In : The Growth of the Potato (J.D. Ivins and E.L. Milthorpe, Eds.), pp. 17-40. Butterwoths, London, UK.

   In the text references should be indicated by their serial number. In references with more than two authors, quoted in the text, the first name is followed by ‘et al’. References to publications other than periodicals, e.g. books, should include the name of the publishers and place of publication.

9. Authors may receive the galley proofs for correction.

10. Corresponding authors shall receive a PDF reprint of the published article by e-mail. The PDF reprint is meant for use by authors for scientific and technical purpose only and not for commercial purpose.