Preparation of Manuscript

Manuscripts should be written in English, typed on one side of good-quality A4-sized paper with double spacing.

leaving wide margins (left and top 3.5 cm, right and bottom 3.0 cm) preferable in Times New Roman in

or an advanced Windows version. The manuscript should be presented sequentially as Title, Abstract, Key words,

Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments (if any), and References.

Table(s) and Figure(s) should be attached in separate sheets, but those should be referred sequentially in the

text. Numerical results should be presented in the form of either tables or figures.

The title page should bear the title of the article, name of author(s) with address (es). The corresponding author

should be highlighted with telephone, fax and e-mail address if available.

Title: The title must be informative, brief, and specific.

Abstract: The abstract (preferably within 150 words) should follow immediately after the title on the first page.

Keywords: Appropriate keywords (not exceeding seven) consistent with the title should be presented after the

abstract.

Tables: Tables with appropriate title should conform to the page size, avoiding vertical lines.

Illustrations and photographs: Illustrations (with appropriate scales), including diagrams and graphs in the

Text should be as ‘Figure.’ A good-quality printed illustration should be on separate sheets with the author’s name.

A short title and proper caption should be written on the back side.

Citations and References: Citations should include author(s) and year of publication. Items in the reference list

should be referred to in the text by inserting, inside parentheses, the year of publication after the author’s name.

If there are more than two authors, the first author should be cited, followed by ‘et al.’. The names of all authors,

however, would appear in the reference list. References should be arranged alphabetically according to the first

author. In the case of citing more than one paper of the same author(s) in the same year, the papers should be

distinguished by the suffixing of a small letter, e. g. Amin (2001a), Amin (2001b).

Example of References

For Journals:

Hossain, M. M. & Ahmed, H. U. 1988. Rhizoctonia leaf spot of cotton, a new record in Bangladesh. Bangladesh

J. Agric. 13(4): 275-276.

Molla, A. H., Shamsuddin, Z. H., Halimi, M. S., Morzia, M. & Puteh, A. B. 2001. Potential for enhancement

of root growth and nodulation of soybean co-inoculated with Azoispirillum and Bradyrhizobium in

laboratory systems. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 33: 457-463.

For Books:

Gomez, K. A. & Gomez, A. A. 1984. Statistical Procedures of Agricultural Research, 2nd ed., John Wiley and

Sons, Singapore. p. 21.

Roberts, D. W. 1980. Toxins of entomopathogenic fungi. In : Microbial control of Pests and Plant Diseases

(Ed) H. D. Burgess, New York Academic Press. pp. 441-463.

Reprints

Ten copies of the reprints without cover of the published paper will be supplied to the correspondent author free

of charge.

Declaration

The author must declare the originality of their research activities as well as the manuscript (partial/full) in

clear statement that the article(s) has not yet been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. The

declaration should be made by signature in prescribed form by all authors and have to be sent at the time of

submission of the revised manuscript.