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In the Bangladesh Journal of Botany original research
papers related to Plant Sciences are published. Each volume of the
journal comprises two issues published in June and December every year.
The manuscript should be typewritten in double space with wide margins
(left and top 3.81 cm, right and bottom 2.54 cm) on 29.21 x 21.59 cm
good quality bond or A4 size (21.0 x 29.7 cm) offset paper and should
not exceed ten pages. As computers are available everywhere now-a-days,
it is expected that the author(s) will compose the article as to the
style and contents of the Journal. If the article is accepted, the
author will have to provide the text in a 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Preparation of the manuscript should conform to the style in the latest
issue of the journal. Each paper should be submitted in duplicate to the
Chief Editor, Bangladesh Journal of Botany, C/o. Department of Botany,
University of
Dhaka,
Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
The following instructions should be followed during
preparation of the manuscript: On the first page of the manuscript, only
the Title of the paper and the name(s) of the author(s) with the address
should be typed, and on the second page the Title of the paper, Key
words, Abstract and Introduction should be given. On the following pages
Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgement (if any)
and References should be typed. In case of Short Communication, these
subtitles, should not be used.
Title:
It should be brief and very specific.
Abstract:
Each full paper should
have an abstract containing the gist of the results obtained and should
not exceed 150 words.
Text:
The text of the article should be clear and precise. It should include
Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion. The Results
and Discussion should not be separated but each result in the section
should be followed by a discussion.
Tables, Graphs and Figures:
Number of tables, graphs
and figures should be minimum. The same data should not be used in both
tables and graphs. Tables should be typed on separate pages. Figures and
graphs should be drawn with Indian ink on tracing paper and should be
properly labelled with bold, solid lines so that these can be reduced up
to half or even less of their original size. The photographs should be
submitted on glossy paper. Colour photographs may be submitted for black
and white or colour prints in the articles. However, the author(s) will
have to bear the expenses for the colour reproduction.
References:
In the text a reference
should be given within brackets without a comma between the name of the
author and the year, two or more references, however, should be
separated by a comma. References at the end of the text should be
arranged alphabetically begining with the author(s) and followed by the
year of the publication, title of the paper, abbreviated name of the
journal, volume, colon (:) and page numbers. In case of books the name(s)
of publisher(s) should be given. Please follow strictly the styles of
the references given bellow:
Hayman, B.I. 1954. The theory and analysis of diallel
cross. Genetics 42: 789-809.
Abuja, S.L. and G.S. Sethi. 1989. Allelic relationships
of genes for liguleless mutants in barley (Hordeum vlgare L.).
Bangladesh J. Bot. 18(2): 217-225.
Pontecarvo, G. 1958. Trends in genetic analysis. Columbia
Univ.
Press, New York. pp. 530.
Burton, G. 1963. Concepts and mechanism of dormancy. In:
The growth of the potato (J.D. Ivins and F.L. Milthorpe Ed.), pp. 17-41.
Butterworths, London.
Abbreviations: Abbreviations should be the same as those used by the
American Journal of Botany.
Short Communications:
Short research information should not exceed three printed-pages (900
words) including Graphs, Tables and Figures. The presentation should be
continuous and paragraphed, i.e. without headings like Introduction,
Materials and Methods, etc. A short communication paper should have an
abstract containing the gist of the paper and should not exceed 50
words.
Declaration:
All authors must be regular members of the Society at the time of
submitting their papers, and are requested to sign a declaration
certifying that the work was carried out by them and the contents of the
paper were not published before nor submitted for publication in any
other journal, and that they have submitted their articles for
consideration by the Editorial Committee of the Bangladesh Journal of
Botany.
Contributors are given 25 copies of free reprints. For
additional reprints the author(s) will be billed at cost price and for
this they must inform the Chief Editor, the desire to have extra
reprints after the papers are accepted for publication.
The Society will bear the cost of up to ten full
typewritten manuscript including full page plates. The author(s) will
have to pay the cost of additional pages exceeding six printed pages in
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