Your submissions are always welcome.
Submission guidelines
1. Aims and Scopes
Journal of China Agricultural University aims to publish Reviews and Research Articles that can influence and advance scientific understandings in the agriculture field worldwide.
Reviews should describe new developments and highlight future directions in agricultural sciences. They should be focused on providing insights and a summary/context on the published findings and introducing new concepts or viewpoints to solve the important unresolved questions.
Research Article presents important new research results through reproducible experimental design by genetic, biochemical, cell, and molecular biological methods, statistical analyses, and other scientific methods.
Journal of China Agricultural University publishes manuscripts in the categories focusing on the core subjects listed below.
Core Subjects are:
Crop Genetics and Breeding Tillage and Cultivation Horticulture Plant Protection Biology Sciences Resources and Environment Grassland Sciences and Technology Food Science and Nutritional Engineering Water Resources and Civil Engineering Animal Science Veterinary Science Agricultural Economics and Management
2. Registration
Registration is needed for manuscript submission. In the main page of the journal website, click “Author Registration” and fill in your personal information to register. Make sure you use full address of your common email and remember your password. Once registered, you can login the system to submit your manuscript.
3. Submission
Special reminder: The journal only accepts manuscripts supported by funding from provincial level agencies or above. Funding information including funding body and number must be included in the manuscript, or the submission will be directly rejected.
Please read the Publishing Agreement of the journal and proceed only if you agree with the content. The journal assumes that the authors have read and agreed with the Agreement for successful submissions.
Please follow the submission instructions of the Journal of China Agricultural University when preparing and submitting your manuscripts. All submissions not meeting requirements are rejected directly without peer-reviewing.
Click the “Author Register” button on the main page of the website and type your email address and password to enter the submission page. You can successfully submit your manuscript by clicking “Submit” button after finishing all the required inputs.
The corresponding author or first author is suggested to submit the manuscript for better communication. If you prefer to suggest reviewers during submission, please make sure the suggested reviewers have senior titles. Please note the suggested reviewers are supplement to the existing expert library of more than 2000 reviewers. Alternatively, you can skip the reviewer suggesting step.
4. Review Process
Once a submission is received and preliminary approved, one “Submission receipt” letter will be sent to authors’ e-mail accounts informing the name of the editor in charge of the manuscript and their contact information. You can also log in to the system at any time to check the status of the manuscript review.
Our journal implements a strict peer-review system. The essential steps are initial review, external review, editor-in-chief review, revision by the author, final decision, editing and processing, and layout and proofreading of papers. This process usually ends within 6 months. if no decision is made within 6 months the author should contact the responsible editor directly.
5. Checking the status of submissions
After logging on the website, you can check the manuscript directly. After the manuscript is under review, you can check the name and contact information of the handling editor at the bottom of page when you click your manuscript. You can contact the handling editor for any questions.
6. Manuscript revision
You can modify your submitted manuscript if the editorial office takes no actions. Once the manuscript is transferred to handling editor, you cannot make changes until the manuscript is returned for revision. Log in to the website first with your email and password before submitting revised manuscript. Please also note:
1) If the manuscript does not conform to the Publishing Agreement, you need modify accordingly and submit it as a new submission.
2) If the manuscript is asked to resubmit after revision, the authors are asked to modify it carefully and submit as “Resubmission after modification”.
3) If further revision is needed, the authors can find it in the page of “Revised manuscript”. Please do not submit the revised manuscript as a new submission, or it will be treated as a new submission and previous reviewing results are abandoned.
7. Publication Fees
There are no submission charges.
After the final review and acceptance and before the paper is published, the author’s proof with the publication fee notice will be sent to the authors’ e-mail accounts. The Publication fee is 500 yuan per page (Tax is automatically included) and no color page fee is charged.
8. Waiver Policy
At present, as a Chinese journal with English Abstracts, Journal of China Agricultural University (JCAU) has not received any submissions from countries other than China. JCAU always welcomes international submissions of high-quality research articles and reviews. JCAU determines country eligibility annually based on the latest World Bank GNI ratings and The Human Development Index.
JCAU automatically waives publication fees for eligible authors as part of our developing countries' waiver policy. Please download the list of carefully chosen Developing Countries.
Please note that an publication fee waiver does not guarantee acceptance of a manuscript, it only waives the fee when and if the paper is accepted. An author’s eligibility will not affect peer review or editorial decision-making.
9. Citations of the manuscript
The citations of published manuscripts can be viewed on the website of the journal. The authors are encouraged to visit often.
