Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences: Announcements

OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:36:22 +0000

About the journal

ISSN Print 1026-0919

ISSN Online 2410-6909

The Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences (UJAS) is an online open-access scientific journal published semi-annually in March and September, by the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO). The journal is multi-disciplinary in nature and peer-reviewed with a mission to disseminate scientific knowledge and information for sustainable agricultural development. The Journal welcomes articles that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence.

UJAS is an open access journal

UJAS is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and provides free access to all articles as soon as they are published. The journal has an online Open Access policy licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License. https://bit.ly/47VSj5q Hosted by African Journals Online https://bit.ly/416QJIT

Call for Articles UJAS

welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of domain significance and scientific excellence in various fields of agricultural and environmental sciences. It publishes original work in plant (crop and forestry), animal, fisheries, engineering, environmental, food, and social sciences of relevance to agriculture. The journal also publishes short communications, empirical research, research protocols, reviews, data, case study reports, perspective research reports, and original results warranting publication as full papers. It has a book review and an advertisement section.

Original research: should report a concise, focused account of original research whose conclusions represent a significant contribution to the understanding of a problem. These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work The material should not have been previously published elsewhere. Usually should not exceed 15 A4 pages, double spaced, and have no more than 30 references. Should include an unreferenced summary i.e. intelligible background, rationale of work, and a well-crafted statement of conclusion.

Review articles: should cover a part of the subject of active current interest. They do not exceed 3 pages and have no more than 20 relevant and authoritative references.

Short communications: Is a peer-reviewed, concise, complete report of a novel finding usually needing one figure or table. Together, do not exceed 2 pages, and have no more than 15 references. May include preliminary results of exceptional interest for which fast publication is essential. Should be presented in the sequence: title, text, methods, references, acknowledgments, tables, figure legends, and figures.

Submission of Articles

We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) via https://bit.ly/3Ya9V9t. OR email at ujas@naro.go.ug. For more inquiries and assistance, please write to the journal office at ujas@naro.go.ug or visit the journal portal at www.journal.naro.go.ug

Guide to authors and other details are available via https://bit.ly/3zSkGFj

Note: You are required to register to submit your manuscript by clicking on the following link https://bit.ly/3Lxi95b

Important dates

Submission Timelines: UJAS, publishes two issues per year and receives manuscripts throughout the year.

UJAS VOLUME 22 NO.1 (2024), OUT NOW!!

Mon, 20 May 2024 10:19:06 +0000

Registration and Submission Guide: A step-by-step guide to UJAS (Registration and Manuscript Submission)

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 05:25:47 +0000

A step-by-step guide to UJAS (Registration and Manuscript Submission)

Registration

Click Register (top right corner)

Fill in your profile (Given name, family name)

The Login sections

Provide the email address you would like to use. Please be advised that this email can only be used once as you can’t use the same email to create another UJAS account.
Also note that the Username should be one word.
Fill in the password you are intending to use.

Check boxes agreeing to the privacy statement
Check the next box if you would like to be notified of new publications and announcements.
Then click Register.

By following the above simple instructions, you will have successfully created your UJAS account.

Logging in

Click Login at the top right corner.

Fill in your username and password
Click login

Submission at UJAS

Click New Submission
Check all the submission requirements
You may also include some comments for the Editor.
Check for agreeing to the Privacy Statement
Click save and continue

FILE

Click Upload file, select the file you would like to upload/submit

*Please note that this file size should not be bigger than 2MBs

After selecting the file click Open
After it has loaded, click on Article Text

Then click save and continue

Metadata

Fill in the metadata that is the Title, Abstract, create a list of Contributors (Co-Authors).

This is a clarification on when one is filling in the Abstract,

Go to your manuscript, Highlight your Abstract the Copy (Ctrl + C) it. After which you will go ahead and just paste (Ctrl + V) it in the Abstract section on the UJAS portal.

Please note that in the Abstract section you are not required to upload any files whatsoever.

How do you do this?

Click Add Contributor

Fill in their names

Fill in their email address

Country they are from

Their ORCHID iD if they have one but in case they don’t, they should go ahead and Click here Register

Affiliation, that is the Organization, Institution, Company they are currently working with.

You can fill in their Bio statement as well

Select their role which can either be an Author or a Translator.

Check to include this contributor in the browse list

Then Save

Do this for all your Co-Authors.

Keywords

Enter one keyword at a time and after press Enter on your keyboard, do this for all the keywords until you exhaust them.

Click Save and continue

Confirmation

Click Finish Submission

Congratulations, you will have finished submitting your paper for review.

Click back to Submission.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:50:56 +0000

This to encourage all researchers especially those that attended the NARO-MAK joint conference 2023 to submit their papers for publication through this prestigeous platform.

PLEASE NOTE THAT

If this is your first time visiting this portal, you're required to first register before you can make any submissions. Click REGISTER and follow instructions.