Manuscripts Guidelines

Journal Innovations in Plant and Environmental Sciences Research (IPESR) accepts manuscripts prepared in accordance with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Science Journals.

Manuscript Format

  • Title Page: Should include the title of the manuscript, author(s) name(s), affiliations, and contact information
  • Abstract: Should be structured, and not exceed more than 250 words. This abstract should consist of problem statement, Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. They should briefly describe, respectively, the problem being addressed in the study, how the study was performed, the salient results, and what the authors conclude from the results.
  • Keywords: Three to six keywords should be added to the bottom of the abstract.
  • Introduction: Brief background of research topic should be stated which funnels down in the light of existing literature to state the reason for conducting research and mention the objective of the research.
  • Methodology: This section should consist of study design, ethical review statement, description of the selection of the observational or experimental subjects, study setting, study duration, sampling method, sample size calculations with references, follow-up period, inclusion and exclusion criteria, variables, identification of the methods, equipment, chemicals and data analysis
  • Results: Give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) or as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical significance attached to them giving degree of freedom, test of significance value and p-value (in brackets) if any. Do not duplicate data in graphs and tables if already mentioned in text.
  • Discussion: Detailed comparison of findings of study with the existing literature and extracting out the possible reasons for the match or mismatch with the existing literature. Study limitations should be mentioned in end of the discussion section.
  • Limitations: The limitations of the study should address potential biases, sample size constraints, methodological weaknesses, and the generalizability of the findings.
  • Conclusion: Final statement that will be the crux of findings in accordance with the objective of the study.
  • Conflict of Interest: Any conflict of interest should be declared by all authors. This may include grants or honorarium, credits and promotions, memberships or any personal or professional relationships which may appear to influence the manuscript. Such competing interests are not unethical but should be declared.
  • Acknowledgements: This is an optional section for acknowledging contributions from individuals or organizations. 
  • Funding Disclosure: All sources of grants received and its spending should be disclosed. If there are no funding sources, the authors should state "none to declare".
  • References: References must be written single-spaced as they are cited in the text. References must be written in [SSSA-modified Harvard Author–Year citation style]:

v  Journal Article

Steyermark, A.L. and B.E. McGee. 1961. Progress in Elemental Quantitative Organic Analysis: 1960. Microchem. J. 5:389–410.

v  Book Chapter

Rhoades, J.D. 1996. Salinity: electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids. In: D.L. Sparks, A.L. Page, P.A. Helmke, R.H. Loeppert, P. N. Soltanpour, M. A. Tabatabai, C. T. Johnston, and M. E. Sumner (eds.), Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 3, Chemical Methods. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, USA. pp.417–435.

v  Book

Mills, H.A. and J.B.J. Jones. 1991. Plant Analysis Handbook II: A practical sampling, preparation, analysis, and interpretation guide H.A. Mills and J.B.J. Jones (eds.). Micro-Macro Publishing, Inc., USA.

 

v  Webpage (example)

FAO. 2023. Global soil erosion risk map. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [online]. Available at: http://www.fao.org/soils-erosion (Accessed: 12 November 2025).

 

v  Conference proceeding (example)

Khan, M.A., S. Ali and R. Zhang. 2022. Responses of canola varieties to saline irrigation. In: T.R. Jones and P.D. Smith (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Salt-Affected Soils, Lahore, Pakistan, 5–7 April 2022. Soil Sci. Soc. Publ., Lahore. pp.45–52.

 

v  Software (examples)

R Core Team. 2024. R: A language and environment for statistical computing, version 4.3.2. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. [Computer program].