期刊名称：AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Agroforestry Systems is an international scientific journal that publishes results of original research, critical reviews and short communications on any aspect of agroforestry. Papers dealing with both biophysical and socioeconomic aspects are welcome. These include results of investigations of a fundamental or applied nature, research methodologies and techniques, and analytical descriptions of little-studied but potentially promising agroforestry and such other integrated systems involving trees and crops and/or livestock. To be acceptable for publication, the information presented must be relevant to a context wider than the specific location where the study was undertaken, and provide new insight or make a significant contribution to the knowledge base.
Frequency of Publication:
The journal is published in three volumes per year. Each volume consists of three issues, and each issue contains approximately 80 printed pages (1 printed page is approx. 500 words). On average, a research article will have 15 pages. Short communications will be much shorter, and will consist of incomplete or initial results that have not yet been conclusively proven. Book reviews and other professional information will also be published periodically. A collection of papers dealing with a specific theme (e.g. proceedings of special workshops and symposia, or invited papers on a selected topic) may occasionally be published as a special issue of the journal. One or more specifically designated guest editors, working in concert with the Editor-in-Chief, will handle the editorial processing of each special issue.
Presentation and Style:
The journal's language is English. `American' or `British' English may be used. However, the entire text of each paper should follow any one style only. Detailed `Instructions to Authors' are published at the end of each volume of the journal and are available on request from the Publishers or the Editor-in-Chief. Prospective contributors are advised to follow these instructions as well as consult a recent issue of the journal for style and format.
Peer Review and Editorial Process:
All manuscripts, including short communications and special-issue articles, will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, who may be members of the Editorial Board or outside experts. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the overall editorial process and coordination. He is assisted by four Associate Editors, who will coordinate the review process of manuscripts dealing with subjects of their respective expertise.
Indexing/Abstracting Services
Agroforestry Systems is indexed/abstracted in Biological Abstracts; Biological and Agricultural Index; BIOSIS Previews; CAB Abstracts; Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Submission
Kluwer Academic Publishers request the submission of manuscripts and figures in electronic form in addition to a hard-copy printout. The preferred storage medium for your electronic manuscript is a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Please label your diskette properly, giving exact details on the name(s) of the file(s), the operating system and software used. Always save your electronic manuscript in the word processor format that you use; conversions to other formats and versions tend to be imperfect. In general, use as few formatting codes as possible. For safety's sake, you should always retain a backup copy of your file(s). After acceptance, please make absolutely sure that you send the latest (i.e., revised) version of your manuscript, both as hard-copy printout and on diskette (submission in electronic form of the final version of your article is compulsory).
Kluwer Academic Publishers prefer articles submitted in word processing packages such as MS Word, WordPerfect, etc. running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh, or in the file format LaTeX. Articles submitted in other software programs can also be accepted.
For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from: http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/
Use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at: texhelp@wkap.nl. If you are not familiar with TeX/LaTeX, the class file will be of no use to you. In that case, submit your article in a common word processor format.
For the purpose of reviewing, articles for publication should be submitted as hard-copy printout (5-fold) and on diskette to:
Journal Editorial Office
Agroforestry Systems
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-78-6576546
Fax: +31-78-6576555
The journal does not levy publication fees or page charges.
Authors are expected to maintain high standards of scientific ethics and integrity. When a paper is submitted to Agroforestry Systems, it is assumed that the work has not been published elsewhere, nor is it being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
Fifty offprints of each published article will be made available to the author(s) free of charge.
Reviewing Procedure
All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two competent reviewers (members of the Editorial Board or outside experts), and the reviewers' comments will be forwarded to the authors. The reviewers will remain anonymous to the authors. Under special circumstances, however, a reviewer may discuss a paper directly with the author(s), with prior approval of the editor. While submitting the revised manuscript, the authors should explain how the reviewers' comments have been addressed. If the authors disagree with the reviewers' comments, the reason(s) should be explained.
Manuscript Presentation
It is the author's responsibility to prepare the manuscript in the acceptable style and format; authors should not expect the reviewers and editors to rewrite the articles for them. Even manuscripts with good scientific content are likely to be rejected and/or their publication delayed considerably if they do not conform to the style and format.
The journal's language is English. 'American' or 'British' English may be used. The entire text of each paper, and all papers of a special issue, should follow any one style only.
Papers should be typed clearly, double-spaced on only one side of high-quality bond paper of size A4 (29.7 cm x 21 cm), or 27.9 cm x 21.6 cm (not airmail paper), with approximately 3-cm-wide margins.
Manuscripts should be written in clear and simple language in a coherent, persuasive, and modern style. Technical jargons and vague generalizations should be avoided.
The title should be as short as possible (suggested maximum of 15 words), and should contain adequate information regarding the contents. Low-impact expressions such as 'effort of . . . ' and 'study of . . .' should be avoided from the title.
Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:
- running head (shortened title)
- title
- author(s)
- affiliation(s)
- full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e-mail address
Abstract
A brief (maximum of 250 words) and informative Abstract, preceded by the title of the paper, must be typed on a separate sheet, and numbered as page 2 of the manuscript. The Abstract should begin with a brief statement of the rationale and objective of the paper. The title is a part of the Abstract; therefore, it should not be repeated. Ambiguous statements such as '. . . are described', or '. . . will be presented' must be avoided. Quantitative data should be given, but for key results only, not in detail. For research papers, the abstract should be presented as one block (without paragraphs).
Key words
Please provide up to six key words in alphabetical order. The journal does not accept 'agroforestry' or words that appear in the title as key words.
Abbreviations, symbols, and units
Only SI units and standard abbreviations should be used. If a non-standard abbreviation or a non-SI unit is to be used extensively, it should be defined at the beginning of the text.
In a table, if information is not available for a particular row/cell, indicate it by n/a or nil, but not by 0.
For plants and other living organisms, the current scientific name, including the authority name, should be given when they are mentioned for the first time in the Abstract and in the main body of the text.
The following taxonomical abbreviations may be used: cv. = cultivar, sp. = species (singular), spp. species (plural), syn. = synonym, var. = variety.
For mineral contents, the elements (K20, P205, Mg0, etc.) should be used in preference to the oxides (K2O, P2O5, MgO, etc.).
Abbreviations may be used for other expressions (e.g., DM for dry matter) provided that they are explained in full when first mentioned, e.g., dry matter (DM).
Experimental papers should be organized into the following sections:
- Introduction: What was planned to do and why?
- Materials and Methods: How was it done?
- Results: What was learned?
- Discussion and Conclusions: What do the results mean, and how do they relate to what is already known?
The Introduction should present a discussion of only the most relevant and recent work, not an elaborate literature review. The Abstract should not be repeated in the Introduction, nor Introduction in the Discussion. Results may be reported as tables or figures (diagrams), but not both. Results of your study and other facts should not be mixed with speculations or opinions. If it is essential to include such speculations and opinions, label them accordingly, but be clear and concise.
Authors are specially reminded that ALL results need not be presented, only important ones need to be. Voluminous data gathered from location-specific trials presented as long tables or complicated figures do not constitute a good paper. In order to be acceptable, the paper should report how the data are interpreted to explain the scientific reasons for the observed behavior and the lessons of wider applicability that can be learned from the data. Single-digit numbers should be written in words in the text, except for statistical/mathematical expressions (e.g., 'during the three (not 3) years of the study, treatment 2 (not two) gave the highest yield'). Dates should be written in the day-month-year style with no punctuation in between and the month written as a word (e.g., 12 April 1997 - not 12-4-1997 or 4-12-1997). When monetary figures are reported in currencies other than US dollars, the equivalent value in US dollars and the time period to which it refers should be given (e.g., US$ = local currency xx.xx, April 1997).
Different types of headings are available; authors should indicate in the left-hand margin of the manuscript, in pencil, the relative importance of headings by use of numbers: e.g.: (1) for main headings, (2) for second-order headings, and (3) for third-order headings.
Figures and tables
Submission of electronic figures
In addition to hard-copy printouts of figures, authors are requested to supply the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.
Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g., 'figure1.eps'. For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black-and-white line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines - 600 dpi; photographs - 300 dpi; screen dumps - leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10-15%.
AVOIDING PROBLEMS WITH EPS GRAPHICS
Please always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com).
If EPS export is not an option, e.g., because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, it may help us if you simply provide a PostScript dump of the entire document.
HOW TO SET UP FOR EPS AND POSTSCRIPT DUMPS UNDER WINDOWS
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer 'Apple Laserwriter Plus' and specify 'FILE': as printer port. Each time you send something to the 'printer' you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump that we can use.
The EPS export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select 'Optimise for portability' instead. The option 'Download header with each job' should be checked.
Submission of hard-copy figures
If no electronic versions of figures are available, submit only high-quality artwork that can be reproduced as is, i.e., without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction. Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure contains colour, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black-and-white or in colour. Figures that are to be printed in black-and-white should not be submitted in colour. Authors will be charged for reproducing figures in colour.
Each figure and table should be numbered in Arabic numerals and mentioned in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first) author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned to the author unless specifically requested.
In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Each figure and table caption should be complete, clear, and concise, and should include the place of study, so that each figure/table should be capable of being understood without reference to the text. Do not give units, scales, or magnifications in captions; instead, incorporate them directly into the figure/table at the appropriate places.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
The journals does not print page footnotes. Therefore, footnotes should not be presented on individual pages of the manuscript. Notes, numbered serially in Arabic numerals, can, however, be placed at the end of the text in a separate section called Notes, but the number of entries should be kept to a minimum if possible. Footnotes in tables should be referred to by superscript symbols @, #, etc. Lowercase letters (a, b, etc.) and asterisks (*, **) should not be used to denote table/figure footnotes as they could be confused with statistical notations.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
References
Literature references should be arranged alphabetically, and typed double-spaced. The number of literature citations should be limited to 25 in a research article (can be more in review articles) and 15 in a short communication; avoid, as much as possible, references to publications that are more than 15 years old. In the text, they should be referred to by author's name and year of publication enclosed in parentheses, e.g., (Burch, 1988; Sharma et al., 1990).
Refer to unpublished work only in the text, as personal communication, in this manner: (W. Wilman, pers. comm., 1997).
The list of references should be written according to the Agroforestry Systems policy for sequence, punctuation and abbreviations.
References should contain: author's name followed by author's initial(s), year, title of article (only first letter and proper nouns capitalized), journal (not underlined), volume number, and inclusive page numbers. Books must include the location and name of the publisher.
Examples:
Garrity D.P. 1996. Tree-soil-crop interactions on slopes. In: Ong C.K. and Huxley P. (eds) Tree-Crop Interactions: A Physiological Approach. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, pp 299-318.
Nair P.K.R. 1993. An Introduction to Agroforestry. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 499 pp.
Torquebiau E.F. and Kwesiga F. 1996. Root development in a Sesbania sesban fallow-maize system in eastern Zambia. Agrofor Syst 34: 193-211
Prospective authors are advised to consult a recent issue of Agroforestry Systems and become acquainted with the journal's style and conventions.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. One corrected proof, together with the original, edited manuscript, should be returned to the Publisher within three days of receipt by mail (airmail overseas).
Offprints
Fifty offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs.
Page charges and colour figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author's expense only.
Copyright
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
Springer Open Choice
In addition to the normal publication process (whereby an article is submitted to the journal and access to that article is granted to customers who have purchased a subscription), Springer now provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice. A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular subscription-based article, but in addition is made available publicly through Springers online platform SpringerLink. To publish via Springer Open Choice, upon acceptance please visit http://www.springeronline.com/openchoice to complete the relevant order form and provide the required payment information. Payment must be received in full before publication or articles will publish as regular subscription-model articles. We regret that Springer Open Choice cannot be ordered for published articles.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
P.K. Ramachandran Nair
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Honorary Editors:
- D.P. Garrity, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya;
- H.-J. von Maydell, Wentdorf, Germany
Associate Editors:
- A.M. Gordon, University of Guelph, ON, Canada;
- D.E. Mercer, USDA Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, USA;
- C.K. Ong, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya;
- F.L. Sinclair, School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Consulting Editors:
D. Auclair, INRA-CIRAD, Montpellier, France; Janaki R.R. Alavalapati, University of Florida, USA; J. Beer, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, USA; C. den Biggelaar, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA; C.R. Black, University of Nottingham, UK; R.J. Buresh, IRRI, Makati City, Philippines; G. Cadisch, University of London, UK; R. Coe, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya; S. Franzel, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya; J.B. Hall, University College of North Wales, UK; W.F. Hyde, University of British Columbia, Canada; B.A. Jama, ICRAF, Kisumu, Kenya; Shibu Jose, University of Florida, USA; R.R.B. Leakey, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld., Australia; R.G. Muschler, Proyecto Agroforestal CATIE/GTZ, Turrialba, Costa Rica; R. Prinsley, Rural Industries Research & Development Corp., Kingston, ACT, Australia; S. Puri, I.G. Agricultural University, Raipur, India; M.R. Rao, ICRISAT, India; P. Sanchez, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Palisades, USA; S.J. Scherr, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; G. Schroth, National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Manaus, Brazil; R.C. Schultz, Iowa State University, Ames, USA; L. Szott, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA; E. Torquebiau, CIRAD, Montpellier, France; M. van Noordwijk, ICRAF SARRP, Bogor, Indonesia; K.F. Wiersum, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; M. Yamada, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Agroforestry Systems
P.O. Box 17
3300 AA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-(0)78-6576167
Fax: +31-(0)78-6576334
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