Issues: Publication of Damietta Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Damietta University is under the supervision of an Editorial Board appointed by the Faculty Council Head and Editor-in- Chief.

General Information on DJAS Article Processing Charges (APC)

DJAS publishes all its journals in full open access, meaning unlimited use and reuse of articles, in addition to giving credit to the authors.

Authors pay a one-time Article Processing Charge to cover the costs of peer review administration and management, professional production of articles in PDF and other formats. There are no charges for rejected articles.

Avoiding Surcharges from Extensive English Editing or Extensive Reformatting on Submitted Articles

Manuscript Submission & Instructions for Authors

Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English.

General Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure

All manuscripts sent for publication to our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts (this includes research and review articles and conferences papers). The Managing Editor of the journal will perform an initial check of the manuscript’s suitability upon receipt. The Editorial Office will then organize the peer-review process performed by independent experts and collect at least two review reports per manuscript. We ask our authors for adequate revisions (with a second round of peer-review if necessary) before a final decision is made. The final decision is made by the academic editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief/Editorial Board Member of a journal). Accepted articles are copy-edited and English-edited.

Editorial Decision and Revision

All the articles, reviews and communications published in DJAS  journal go through the peer-review process and receive at least two review reports. The in-house editor will discuss each step of the process with the external academic editor and communicate decisions to the authors regarding the following:

    Accept in Present Form: The paper is accepted without any further changes.

    Accept after Minor Revisions: The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given seven days for minor revisions.

    Reconsider after Major Revisions: The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a rebuttal if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within two weeks and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.

    Reject and Encourage Resubmission: An article where additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.

    Reject: The article has serious flaws, makes no original contribution, and the paper is rejected with no offer of resubmission to the journal.

For articles that are rejected we will comply with requests from authors to delete files.

Author Guidelines

The manuscripts should be subdivided with the following subheadings: Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Funding, Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgments (Optional) and References.

* Review articles: Review papers should provide a synthesis of existing knowledge and give new insights or concepts not previously presented in the literature, or at least not with the same level of detail.

General Instructions

The formatting and other conventions that are to be followed are listed below:

- Manuscripts can be submitted to the Editor through the website of the DJAS (http://publication.du.edu.eg/journal/ojs302design/index.php/agr/index). Only electronic submissions are accepted, the preferred format is a single Microsoft Word file (double spaced) containing all text, Tables and Figures. The following information must be provided for each manuscript submitted. The corresponding author with an email address and other contact information; complete listing of all authors and affiliations and manuscript title.  Manuscripts will normally be published in order of acceptance by the Editors. Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author and should be returned within two weeks since receipt. No new material may be inserted in the text at proof stage.

- Articles should be subdivided with the following subheadings: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Funding, Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgments (optional) and References. These items should be in bold and should be numbered.

Manuscript

Manuscript should have 5 to 35 pages typed, including Figures, Tables and references. They should be written in space double lines. The work should be edited in Word, or compatible, using Times New Roman font, size 14 and main title font size 16 Bold. The work should be formatted in A4 and the lower and upper margins should be 2.5 cm, while right and left margins should be 3.0 cm.

Your manuscript should be checked using the industry standard iThenticate software and plagiarism must not be more than 25%.

Title

The title of the article should be precise and brief and must not be more than 20 words. The first letter of each word should be in capital letters except conjunctions and prepositions.

Authors' affiliation addresses

Please write the full first name and family name of each author and verify the accuracy of writing all the names clearly and write the middle name(s) briefly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation of each author.

Abstract

Abstracts, up to 250 - 300 words, should contain brief information on the aims of the research, experimental material, results and conclusion.

Key words, up to six, should be added at the end of the abstracts and should not include words found in the title

Introduction

State brief the objectives and background of the work and avoiding a detailed literature explain or a summary of the results.

Materials and Methods

Provide enough detail to allow the work to be reproduced, with details of the work. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Results and Discussion

Results should be clear and concise. Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them.

Tables and Figures

Tables and Figures should appear in the manuscript as near as possible to the place where they are referred to in the text.

Conclusion

The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short form.

Funding, Conflict of Interest,  AUTHORS CONTRIBUTION, Acknowledgments (optional)

References

References are to be identified in the text by the author's name and year of publication at the end of the paper. Each must be listed alphabetically in the form as follows: Periodicals – names and initials of all the authors, year of publication, title of the paper, journal title, the volume number as well as the pages numbers.

Thesis – the title of thesis should also be underlined with an indication whether its material was published or not.  Books – names and initials of all the authors, names of editors, the year of publication, the title of the book (underlined) and the page number or the total number pages of the book, the publisher's name and place of publication. Patents – the name of the application, the title, the country, patent number or application number, the year of publication.

Examples;

Article in a journal:

Herath, H. M.G.P.; Pain, S.J.; Kenyon, P.R.; Blair, H.T. and Morel, P.C.H. 2021. Growth and Body Composition of Artificially Reared Lambs Exposed to Three Different Rearing Regimens. Animals, 11 (12): 3370-3390. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11123370

Thesis:

Zou, Yangyang.  2021. An Evaluation of Potential Applications of Low-cost Air Quality Sensors. PhD., Thesis, Civil Engineering, The Ohio State University.http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1618588753369891 

Book:

Sturkie, P. D. 1976. Avian Physiology. Book. 3rd ED., PP200-400. Part of the Springer Advanced Texts in Life Sciences book series (SATLIFE).

Collins, C.H., Lyne’s, P.M., Grange, J.M. and Falkinham, J.O. 2004 Microbiological Methods. 8th ed., pp. 284-290, United States of America by Oxford University Press Inc.

Arabic Abstract

Copyright Notice

Article must be original reports on basic or applied research not previously or simultaneously published in any other refereed periodical scientific or technical Journal and if accepted, must not be published in any other journal.

Papers Submitted for publication are forwarded to the Editor-in-Chief, according to the system outlined below. The Editorial Board refers the papers to specialized reviewers chosen for recognized competence in their fields. The Editorial Board bases its decision for acceptance, revision or rejection of the paper upon advice from at least two reviewers, whose identities are not disclosed to the authors. Suggestions and criticism of the reviewers are communicated to the authors to revise their papers accordingly.

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