Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:

  1. Originality: 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).

  2. File Format: The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) document file format.

  3. Template Compliance: The manuscript has been formatted according to the AGRINOVA Official Template.

  4. Anonymity (Double-Blind): Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

  5. Blind Review Ready: If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed (author names and affiliations have been removed from the manuscript file).

  6. References: All references cited in the text are included in the Reference list, and vice-versa. The references follow the APA 7th Edition style and, where possible, include DOIs or live URLs.

  7. Plagiarism Statement: The author(s) confirm that the manuscript has a similarity index of less than 25% as checked by plagiarism detection software (e.g., Turnitin).