Manuscript Submission: Please follow the hyperlink “Submit on line” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact IJAMP Editorial Office, email: adnan@hstu.ac.bd or bikash@hstu.ac.bd.

Peer Review: The submitted papers will pass through initial screening in the editorial office followed by internal review by Internal Board of Reviewing Editors. After this, the paper will be assigned to external peer review by two reviewers. After revision, the paper will be checked through the Advanced Plagiarism Detection Software. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based on reviewer recommendations. If reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors shortly. The decision of the IJAMP Editor is final.

Revision of manuscripts: Revised manuscripts should be returned to the editor by Online Submission Interface. The revised manuscripts returned later than four weeks will be considered and treated as a new submission.

Permissions: Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain written permission (include evidence) from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Language: English

Units: All measurements must be given in SI or SI-derived units.

Abbreviations: Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.

Scientific name: All papers must confirm to the latest edition of the International Code of Botanical/ Zoological Nomenclature. Upon its first use in the title, abstract and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (genus, species and authority) in parentheses. Genus names should not be abbreviated at the beginning of paragraphs.

Structure of the manuscript: Manuscripts should be written in the following order: title page, abstract and key words, text, acknowledgements (if any), references, appendices (if any), figure and legends, tables (each table completes with title and footnotes).

Title page: The title page should contain - the title of the paper, the full names and addresses of the authors. The full name, designation, postal and email address plus telephone number of the correspondent for the manuscript should be sent. The corresponding author must be marked by putting asterisk (*) on his last name.

Title: The title should be informative, brief and very specific. Abbreviations and formulae should not be used in the title. Example- Effects of host plants and seasons on the biology of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychusurticae (Koch)

Authors and affiliation: Include names of all authors.Provide the full postal address of eachaffiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author. Running title: A short running title (less than 50 characters) should also be provided.

Abstract: All articles must have a brief abstract that states in 250 words or fewer. The abstract must contains objective, basic procedures, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references.

Key words: Four to eight key words should be supplied just below the abstract. Key words will be arranged in alphabetically. Text: Authors should use the following sub-headings to divide the sections of their manuscript: Introduction, Materials and Methods/Methodology, Results and Discussion.

Format for text and citations: Doc format, Times New Roman font, 12 point, double space, separate paragraphs with a space, left justify the text and no page breaks. The authors should use bold style for titles of major sections (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods/Methodology, Results, and Discussion, Acknowledgments, References) and sub sections within major sections. Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings. The Methods and Results should be written in the past tense e.g. Percentage of protein in the cotton plant was determined by modified Kjaldahl method. The reference to tables and figures should be written in the present tense e.g. the data are shown in Table 1. The passive voice should be used but there are times when the active voice is more appropriate e.g. Figure 1 shows the results.

Acknowledgments: The source of financial grants and other funding may be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors’ industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged. Personal thanks and thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.

References in the text: Literature citations in the text should indicate the author’s surname (last name) with the year of publication in parentheses e.g. Rahman (2000). If there are two authors, ‘and’ must be used between the two names e.g. Rahman and Khan (2006). When reference is made to a work by more than two authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used e.g. Roy et al. (2005). If there is more than one work by the same authors in the same year are cited, they should be distinguished by the letters a, b, c, etc. A reference should be given within brackets without a comma between the name of the author and the year. For two or more references, however, each reference should be separated by a comma. For instance, Efficacy of botanical extracts against fruit fly (Arifuzzaman et al. 2014, Bachchu et al. 2017, Siddique et al. 2019).

Reference list: All references cited in the text, tables or figures must be listed as ascending alphabetical order. The title of the work and name of the journal should be written in full. Journal name should be in italic form. Examples of reference style are given below:

Journals
Evans LT and Dunstone RL. 1970. Some physiological aspect of evolution in wheat.Australian Journal of Biological Sciences. 23:725-741. Zalucki MP, Clarke AR and Malcolm SB. 2002. Ecology and behavior of first instar larval Lepidoptera. Annual Review of Entomology. 47: 361-393.

Books
Roff DA. 1992. The Evolution of Life Histories: Theory and Analysis. Chapman and Hall, New York, USA.pp.339-343. Wratten SD and Fry GIA. 1996. Field and Laboratory Exercises in Ecology. Edward Arnold, London, UK. pp. 98-103.

Chapter in a book
Dimetry NZ. 1988. Orientation to light by the lady bird beetle. In: Ecology and effectiveness of Aphidophaga (Ed. Niemczyk E and Dixon AFG). SPG Academic Publication, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 135- 140.

Proceedings
Cunningham JP, Moore CJ, Zalucki MP and Cribb BW. 2004. Insect odour perception: recognition of odour components by flower foraging moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Biological Sciences. 273: 2035–2040 Wittstock U, Agerbirk N, Stauber EJ, Olsen CE and Hippler M. 2004.Successful herbivore attack due to metabolic diversion of a plant chemical defense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 101: 4859–4864.

Website
R Development Core Team. 2005. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. http://www.R-project.org Fields Development Team. 2006. Fields: tools for spatial data. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO. URL http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/Software/Fields

Tables and figures: Tables and figures should be made in Excel and must be included at the end of the text.

Tables: Tables should be self-contained and complement and numbering should be made consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Each table should be set on a separate sheet with a concise legend above. The table legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. Statistical measures such as SD or SE should be identified in the headings.

Figures: All line drawings and photographs are considered as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Figures should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm) or the full text width (169 mm). Line figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams. Figure legends should be concise and the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text.

Submission procedure Authors are requested to submit new manuscripts to the editor as e-mail attachment (s) or hard copy in triplicate (after acceptance must submit soft copy) and suggested reviewer,with a view to rapid review process authors are requested to send name and full postal address (including e-mail and telephone number) of five persons.

Files Required for Online Submission

• Cover Letter
• Authors need their ORCID id (if don’t have, create here)
• Title Page (Title of the manuscript, Authors details)
• Manuscript (Excluding Authors’ names and Tables & Figures)
• Tables (if any)
• Figures (if any)
• Supplementary Files (if any)

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Authors Guideline

Responsibility of authorship and agreement

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, and interpretation of the reported study.

Conflict of interest: All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. Submission declaration: Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint)or not under consideration for publication elsewhere that its publication is approved by all authors and by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in any form or in any language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Changes to authorship: Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. Copyright: Upon submitting an article, authors should be agreed to abide by an open access Creative Commons license. Under the terms of this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. However, the license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive and distribute or link to the full texts of its articles and to use them for any other lawful purpose, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.

Availability of accepted article: The journal makes articles available online as soon as possible after acceptance. This concerns the accepted article (PDF format), which has not yet been copyedited, typeset or proofread. A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is allocated, thereby making it fully citable and searchable by title, author name(s) and the full text. The article’s PDF also carries a disclaimer stating that it is an unedited article. Subsequent production stages will simply replace this version.

Online proof correction: Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with instructions about Author’sproof (Galley proof). Please be aware that your accepted manuscript will be typeset in typesetting program (LaTeX). During proof typesetting we may modify the tables, figures and reference section according to the journal style keeping the original texts/data. Therefore, proofreading must be done on the typeset PDF only using the Adobe Acrobat (FREE Software) annotation tool or any other appropriate program. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. We highly appreciate your cooperation.

Off prints: IJAMP allows readers and authors to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and to use them for any other lawful purpose. However, the corresponding author will receive a customized print quality PDF reprint at no cost. Authors can request paper off prints to the Chief-Editor with an extra charge after the article is published online.

Publication Ethics: Ethical standards are crucial to ensure the high quality of scientific publications, credibility of scientific findings, and that authors receive credit for their work. As such, the International Journal of Agriculture and Medicinal Plants (IJAMP) iscommitted to upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process.

Article Assessment: All manuscripts are subject to peer review and are expected to meet standards of academic excellence. If approved by the editor, submissions will be considered by peer reviewers, whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors. To avoid any form of plagiarism, each manuscript newly submitted to the IJAMP Office will be checked regarding plagiarism

Conflicts of Interest: Potential conflicts of interest must be declared

Corrections and Retractions: When errors are identified in published articles, the IJAMP Editorial office will consider what action is required and may consult the editors and the authors’ institution(s).Errors by the authors may be corrected by a corrigendum and errors by the publisher by an erratum. If there are errors that significantly affect the conclusions or there is evidence of misconduct, the article may be retracted. The author(s) will be notified of the process of retraction and given a chance of appeal to the IJAMP office against the decision.

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