Rules for the design of manuscripts
General
Acceptable for publication in Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding are peer-reviewed articles. If a manuscript needs amending, it is returned to the author(s) together with the reviewer(s) and Scientific Editor's remarks.
The authors are requested to consider all remarks made in reviewing and editing, respond to each remark, and indicate all sites in the manuscript where revisions are made. In case of dissent from a reviewer or the Editor, the author(s) should concisely substantiate his/her opinion. The manuscript sent by the Editor after review and revised in accordance with reviewer’s remarks should be returned to the Editor within two months after its receipt by the author(s). An article returned after the expiration of this term will be assigned a new date of submission. In case of disapproval by two independent reviewers, the manuscript is rejected. Authors are requested not to resubmit rejected manuscripts.
The PDF file of the galley proof is e-mailed to the author for checking and correction. No replacements or amendments to the text, figures, or tables are allowed in the proof. A detailed list of corrections should be attached in returning the proof to the Editor.
Manuscript Preparation
Manuscripts are submitted via the electronic editorial system at vavilov.elpub.ru. In case the manuscript is very large, please compress it into a .zip file.
The manuscript size should not exceed 20 A4 pages. It includes the paper title in English and Russian; initials and last names of the authors in English and Russian; affiliations in English and Russian; an abstract in English and Russian; key words in English and Russian; the main text divided into sections, tables, figure captions, References, Acknowledgments, Conflicts of Interests; and the ORCID ID list. The text should be typeset using the Microsoft®Word text processor, in Times New Roman, 12pt, without hyphenation, fully justified, and single spaced. All margins are 3 cm wide. Paper size is А4. Page numbering and line numbering restarting on each page are mandatory.
Latin names of research objects should be written in the title and the body text according to common rules of taxonomic notation. Binary names of species are typed in italic (Drosophila melanogaster), and taxa of higher ranks, in Roman. When mentioned first, the generic and specific names are typed in full, and then the generic name is indicated with its uppercase first letter and the specific name is indicated in full (D. melanogaster).
The names and symbols of genes are typed in italic, and the names of their products, in Roman with appropriate capitalization. Examples of genes: fos, c-myc, ATM. Proteins: Fos, c-Myc, ATM. Italicized are also designations of mobile elements, such as hobo, and the first three letters of a restriction site, e.g., HindIII. Names of phages and viruses are typed in Roman according to their Latin spelling.
Mathematical formulae and equations are centered and enumerated with parenthesized Arabic numerals in textual order.
Tables are presented black-and-white in the same file as the manuscript body, placed at first reference. No text wrap is applied. Each table should be referred to in the text. Tables should have headings and be enumerated with Arabic numerals in textual order. All columns should have headers. Words are not clipped. All abbreviations should be expanded in notes to the table.
Figures (plots, schemes, halftones, or vector images) are attached as separate files. In plot figures, the plotted variables and their dimensions should be indicated. It is recommended that all physical dimensions be expressed in the International System of Units SI. Every figure should be referred in the text. Figure captions are placed in the text at first reference. Details of a figure should be enumerated with Arabic numerals or Latin letters and deciphered in the caption. Figures are enumerated in textual order. In references to a figure, its numerical designation and alphanumerical designations of its details are indicated, e.g. (Fig. 1, a). Plots and schemes are requested to be drawn with vector graphic programs (Excel, Corel Draw, or PowerPoint) and attached in separate files of the same formats as used in their creation. Figures created in other vector programs should be saved in the EPS or WMF formats. Halftone images are submitted as separate .JPEG or .TIFF files with resolution 300–600 dpi. For copyrighted images, authorization letters from the copyright owners should be attached.
Inline bibliographic references should follow the Harvard style: Sources are cited within the manuscript body by giving the name of the author(s) without initials, and the year of publication is separated with a comma. When citing in-text, include the last names of up to two authors: (Gihr, Smith, 2018). If there are more than two authors for the work, only the name of the first author followed by "et al." is indicated, e.g., (Gatsby et al., 2018). References to publication of different years are arranged in chronological order. If several papers of one author or a group of authors published in the same year are referred, the year is supplemented by lowercase letters in the alphabetical order, e.g., Smith, 2017a, b). The assignment of letters is determined by the positions of the referred publications in References.
The References section should include complete bibliographic descriptions of all publications referred in the text. The list of references should include only reviewed sources: articles from scientific journals and monographies. References should be verified, and their publication details should be checked on the official sites of journals and/or publication enterprises. Information on such sources as dissertations, textbooks, technical standards, statistical reports, newspaper articles, Web sites, or blogs should be given in footnotes.
Sources are arranged in the alphabetical order with last names and initials of all authors of each publication. Papers of one author are arranged in the chronological order. If several works of one author published in one year are referred, they are given alphabetical designations: 2017a, b, c.
A reference to a journal article should be arranged as follows: All authors separated with commas (the last name and initials are not separated by commas, and each initial is followed by a period). Article title. Journal title. Publication details: year, volume, issue, and pages are given without spacing, as 2020;5(2):35-42. The DOI is placed at the end of the reference.
Examples:
Journal article
Berry H.M., Rickett D.V., Baxter C.J., Enfissi E.M.A., Fraser P.D. Carotenoid biosynthesis and sequestration in red chilli pepper fruit and its impact on colour intensity traits. J. Exp. Bot. 2019;70(10):2637- 2650. DOI 10.1093/jxb/erz086.
Article in a collection
Ronin Y., Minkov D., Mester D., Akhunov E., Korol A. Building ultradense genetic maps in the presence of genotyping errors and missing data. In: Advances in Wheat Genetics: from Genome to Field: Proc. of the 12th Int. Wheat Genetics Symposium. Springer Nature, 2015;127-133. DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-55675-6.
Book
Kühn U. Chenopodiaceae. In: Kubitzki K., Rohwer J.G., Bittrich V. (Eds.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. II. Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons, Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid families. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 1993;253-280.
Manuscript structure
- The article title in English and Russian should be brief and be typed in lowercase. It should reflect the content of the paper. Latin names of study subjects are presented in full, following the taxonomic code.
- Authors' list. Authors' initials and last names are presented in Russian and English.
- Affiliations are written in English and Russia: the full official name, full legal address, and e-mail address(es) of the author(s). The correspondence between an author's name and its affiliation should be indicated with a superscript Arabic numeral. The author authorized by the co-authors to carry on correspondence is marked with an asterisk (*).
- Abstract, both in English and Russian with concise presentation of the motivation, the main goal, approaches used, results, and major inferences (not exceeding 250 words).
- Keywords in English and Russian (no more than 10) separated by semicolons.
- Text body, arranged according to the present Guide. The following section titles are recommended for original articles: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Acknowledgments, Conflict of Interests. Section titles in review articles are at authors' discretion.
- References.
- Acknowledgments. Sources of funding are indicated here.
- Conflict of interests. This section should be as this: Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
- ORCID ID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is desirable for each author.
