a) Application Letter

b) Copyright Release Form

Note: The cost for publication in Journal of Animal Production is US$ 10 per printed page in the journal. It is requested after acceptance to publication.  

Scope

The journal of Animal Production publishes original and unpublished research articles, review articles, short notes and letters to the editor in Turkish or in English.

The journal welcomes submissions on all aspects of animal production, animal husbandry, animal nutrition, animal breeding, animal welfare, ethics, behaviour, reproduction, animal biotechnology, animal mechanization, statistical and economical evaluations of animal data, animal products and their processing technologies.

Copyright

Papers are accepted for publication that they have not been published and are not going to be considered for publication elsewhere. Authors should certify that neither the manuscript nor its main contents have already been published or submitted for publication in another journal. All manuscripts should be accompanied by the Copyright Release Form, which can be found in each volume of the journal and also available online in journal’s web site. This form should be completed and signed by all co-authors indicating their consent to its publication. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining the signatures of coauthors.

Corresponding author

The corresponding author should be declared with his/her name, full postal address, e-mail, and fax and telephone numbers when submitting the manuscript in Application Letter.

Manuscript structure

Manuscripts should be typewritten on one side of paper about 210 x 300 mm (A4), double-spaced with margins of at least 3 cm at the top, bottom and sides. Article should be written using Microsoft Word for Windows in format as Times New Roman font with font size of 12 and justified in both side of the page. The lines should be continuously numbered in all document. The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 15 pages including references excluding tables and figures. All copies of the manuscript should have page numbers (bottom and center).

The layout of the article written in English should be presented as follows: title of the article, the full forename and surname of each author, the department and institution of authors, abstract (not more than 200 words), keywords (five keywords) in English; title, abstract and keywords in Turkish, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements (if necessary), references and appendix (if necessary).

Title

Title of the article should be bold, centered, font size 14 pt and in Title Case format. Under the title, full names of authors should be typed in Title Case format (comma between authors). Do not give authors’ title, positions or degrees.

A short running title (not more than 100 characters including spaces) should be given at the first page. This title will be used as header at the top of the odd pages.

Abstract
A concise abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract must be able to stand alone and references should be avoided. Uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. The abstract should not be longer than 400 words.
 

Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Contributors who are not native Turkish speakers may submit their manuscripts with a title, an abstract and the keywords written in English only. Contributors who are not native English speakers are strongly advised to ensure that a colleague fluent in the English language has reviewed their manuscript if none of the authors is so. It is strongly recommended that the text be run through computer spelling and grammar programs.

Sections

Section headings should not be numbered but bold and in “Title Case” format. Low-level headings should be bold, italic and “Title Case” format. Second low-level headings should be italic only.

Tables and Figures

All illustrations (photographs, drawings, graphs, etc.) except tables must be labelled "Figure". Tables and figures should not appear in the text and are given in a separate sheet for each table and figure and be in black and white form. All tables and figures must be numbered consecutively. The numbering of the tables must not be combined with that of the figures. Do not use vertical lines and few horizontal lines. Do not use boldface in the table body and title. Font size in Tables is 11 pt and single space but 9 for footnote of tables.

References

References in the text should be restricted to those with a direct bearing upon the findings and should be given in name and year base as Kare and Ficken (1963) or (Kare and Ficken, 1963). Authors name should be in “Title Case” format. A reference by three or more authors should be identified in the text only by the first author followed by et al. and the date. Where several references are quoted consecutively in the text the order should be chronological, or, within a year, alphabetical by first author or, if necessary, by first and second author(s). Where references are made to several papers by the same authors in the same year, the date should be followed by a, b, c, etc.

References should be listed alphabetically by author and in chronological order for each author at the end of the manuscript. In the reference list journal titles should be cited in full, not bold while for books and monographs the place of publication should precede the publisher's name. Authors are wholly responsible for the accuracy of the references and information given in the article.

Examples are given below of the layout and punctuation to be used in the references:

Abbreviations for journal or conference name must be original. See the web page.

Article (all authors must be mentioned)

Foulley, J.L., Jaffrezic, F., Robert-Granié, C. 2000. EM-REML estimation of covariance parameters in Gaussian mixed models for longitudinal data analysis. Genet. Sel. Evol. 32: 129-141.

Book

Lynch, M., Walsh, B. 1998. Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits, 1st ed., Sinauer Associates, Sunderland.

Chapter in a book

Somes, R.G. 1990. Mutations and major variants of muscles and skeleton in chickens, in: Crawford R. (Ed.), Poultry breeding and genetics, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 209-237.

Symposium or congress paper

Villanueva, B., Wooliams, J.A., Simm, G. 1998. Evaluation of embryo sexing and cloning in dairy cattle nucleus schemes under restricted inbreeding. In: Proceedings of the 6th world congress on genetics applied to livestock production, 11-16 January 1998, Vol. 25, University of New England, Armidale, pp. 451-454.

Web sources (Authors, date and article name if available. URL address. Date of access)

Rayens, B. 2004. Practical nonparametric statistics http://www.ms.uky.edu/~rayens/teaching/sta673/ sta673.html (15 April 2004).

Efe, E., Bek, Y., Şahin, M. 2000. SPSS’te çözümleri ile istatistik yöntemler. http://www.ksu.edu.tr/kisisel/eefe/spss.pdf (15 April 2004).

Submission
Submission to this journal is via e-mail or ordinary surface mail. However all correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail.

Referees
Please submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of 3 potential referees. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

After two referees’ evaluations of the article, result is sent to the corresponding author.

Page charge

Authors will be charged US$ 10 edited per page to partially cover the publication costs  of Journal of Animal Production.

Proofs
After editting accepted articles, page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author or a link will be provided in the e-mail so that authors can download the files themselves. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post. Please use the proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all your corrections are sent back to us after carefull checking. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that it may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.

Offprints
The corresponding author will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail.

Send To:  Prof.Dr. Yavuz AKBAŞ (Editor)

Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science 35100 Bornova-Izmir, TURKEY.

Tel: +90 (232) 388 40 00 Ext.: 2917,

Fax: (232) 388 18 67,

e-mail: yavuz.akbas@ege.edu.tr