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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
All authors are familiar with the manuscript and agree with it's content
The manuscript text is original, all borrowed text (from own or others' works) has clear indication of quotation borders and respective references
Mandatory files are attached containing: (a) complete manuscript text; (b) anonymous manuscript text (devoid of information of authors and their affiliations in the title pages) for reviewing purposes; (c) author information (full names, affiliations and e-mails of all authors, contact phone number of the corresponding author); (d) list of 3-5 potential reviewers with no conflict of interests (such as the same affiliation as the authors'): full names, affiliations and e-mail
Illustrative material is inserted in text (to show position) and attached as separate TIFF or JPEG files (versions for both color online publication and grayscale print). Diagrams and graphs are built in MS Office appications and initial files with data and diagrams are provided
Manuscript and summary size correspond to the recommendations (Appendix 1, Table 2)
The body of modern references of global sсale is sufficient to substantiate goal and scientific novelty and to compare obtained data with previous research
Methods, approaches and experimental schemes are detailed, clear and reproducible
Results are adequate to the Methods while Discussion corresponds to the Results
Tables and Figures are informative and correspond to the content while titles, legends and indications are adequate
The manuscript is either properly structured and formatted or "your paper - your way" (YPYW, formatting according to the Manuscript Organization Instructions will be performed after the expertise) is chosen which is indicated in the "Comments for the Editor" field

Author Guidelines

“Plant Protection News” publishes results of original research as full-text articles and short reports, reviews as full-text and mini-reviews, discussion notes (comments to published articles and responses to comments) and chronicles related to plant protection (i.e. announcements of forthcoming and reports on past events, in memoriam, obituaries etc.).

The Journal promotes modern methods of plant protection, including development of resistant plant varieties and biological means of pest control; phytosanitary monitoring of agroecosystems; innovative approaches, technologies, economics and ecological safety of plant protection applications.

Four issues are published per year. Electronic versions of papers are openly published as PDF files at the Journal’s website. Papers are issued in Russian or English. The Editorial Office preserves the right to translate Russian papers into English (upon discussion of the final version with the authors). Instructions for manuscript organization in English are given below. Instructions for manuscripts in Russian can be found in the Russian version of the Guides for Authors.

Since 2020, manuscript submission is performed online via personal account of the corresponding authors. Access to the Electronic Submission System is open at the official website of the Journal: http://plantprotect.ru. The manuscript is submitted as an electronic document (file) in the format, compatible with MS Office (Word). The preferable formats are DOC or Rich Text Format (RTF), however, we also accept other formats if their content is not distorted. Other documents submitted as separate files are anonymous manuscript version (devoid of information on authors and their affiliations), files with figures (see below), information about authors (including affiliation with address, e-mail addresses of all authors and the contact phone number of the corresponding author) and potential reviewers (name, affiliation, e-mail). The further work (review, the notifications on the Editor board decisions, authorship transfer, the scientific and technical edits, layout adjustments by the editors and authors etc) is conducted through the Electronic Submission System.

In case of the manuscript acceptance, the authors transfer the copyright to reproduce, distribute and make publicly available the paper to the publisher of the Journal “Plant Protection News” by setting up an Agreement (the full text is available for download from the Journal website as DOCX, DOC и PDF). According to this, the manuscript or its parts cannot be published elsewhere in any language without a written permission of the copyright holder, which is the All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection.

Author(s) guarantee(s) that the manuscript or its parts were not previously published, plagiarism and other forms of unrighteous usage of data are absent and all the permissions for data and image usage are present. Authors are fully responsible for accuracy of facts, citations, statistical data etc.

Manuscripts violating these guides will not be considered. The authors can provide the preliminary version of the paper without special formatting, requested by the journal (option «Your paper – your way»), and this should be mentioned in the “Comments for the Editor” field. In this case, the authors will be allowed to format the title page and the bibliography after the paper is accepted for publication. Charges for article processing and publication are not incurred to the authors. The manuscripts are not returned.

For any requests, please feel free to inquire at: vestnik@vizr.spb.ru; ytokarev@vizr.spb.ru

Instructions for manuscript organization

The manuscript size depends upon the article type (Table 1). Short communication, as well as other types or articles, is a complete work and nor a preliminary data of an unaccomplished study.

Table 1. Size limitations for different article types

Article type	Maximal number of pages of text*	Maximal number of illustrative units (tables & figures)**	Abstract volume (word count)
Full-text review	40	20	150-250
Mini-review	20	10	100-150
Full-text article	20	10	150-250
Short communication	6	2	100-150
Discussion note	4	1	No
Chronicle	10	2	No

*pages of RTF document formatted according to the Instructions

**One unit occupies 0.5 page

First paragraph includes lower case title of the paper. Upper case is used to begin sentence, names, in abbrevations etc. Latin names are given without authors unless this is needed to avoid confusion.

Second paragraphs includes initials and surnames of authors separated by comma.

Third paragraph includes authors’ affiliation, city and country. Several affiliations are indicated by superscript Arabic numbers.

Fourth paragraph includes plain text Abstract without title, paragraphs, citations, special symbols and formatting. This is to deliver the main content of the article in a short form to be understood without reading the main text. Abstract size depends upon the article type (Table 1). Numerals are given as numbers (if not the first word of the sentence). Abbreviations need to be deciphered upon first mentioning, with the exception of those widely accepted (WTO, DNA, PCR, RNA, FAO etc.) Latin taxon names are given in full.

Fifth paragraph contains 4 to 8 keywords, separated by comma, without prepositions and conjunctions. Keywords should reflect the article content but not repeat its title.

Main text follows with titles of chapters in bold on separate lines. Structure of full-text article include the following necessary chapters: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion. Short communication has the same structure but one chapter unites Results and Discussion. Reviews contain chapters according to the text content, or no chapters.

Text formatting is as following: the font is Times New Roman for main text, tables and figure legends, Arial for figures, Symbol for Greek symbols. Font size is 12 in main text, 9 in tables, figure legends and references. The line space is single, page orientation is vertical (portrait), all page margins are 2 cm, no styles for symbol formatting are applied. Decimal part is separated by dot, “%” symbol is separated by space from the number.

Equations are designed in a standard equation editor of MS Office Word or provided as black and white raster images with resolution of 600 dpi or higher.

Latin taxa names are given according to the modern nomenclature, each species name is given in full at first mentioning in main text with author names; the genus epithet is further abbreviated.

Illustrative materials are provided within the text after paragraph containing first mentioning of the unit. Figure and table sizes are 8.7 or 18.1 см. Diagrams and graphs are built without color elements using standard means compatible with MS Office Word or preferable Excel. In the latter case XLS files are provided. Raster images are supplied as separate TIFF or maximal quality JPEG files with resolution of 300 dpi or higher. Figures and tables should not copy each other’s content.

References are given in round parenthesis: «The research has shown that ….. (Whitlock, Johnston, 1990)»; «According to Weiser (1972), ….». References to conference abstracts and proceedings should be omitted, with the exception of essential pieces presented at remarkable international events.

Examples of original references in English

Beznoussenko GV, Dolgikh VV, Seliverstova EV, Semenov PB et al (2007) Analogs of the Golgi complex in microsporidia: structure and avesicular mechanisms of function. J Cell Sci 120(7):1288–1298. http://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.03402

Agrios GN (2005) Plant pathology. Fifth Edition. San Diego: Elsevier. 952 p.

Palomares LA, Ramirez OT (1998) Insect cell culture: recent advances, bioengineering challenges and implication in protein production. In: Galindo E, Ramirez OT (eds) Advances in bio-process engineering II. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. 25–52

Lopez MM (1978) Characteristics of French isolates of Agrobacterium. Proc. 4th Internat. Conf. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. 233-237

Townsend R, Marshall S, Leclerque A, Kleespies R et al (2010) Appearance of pathogens within outbreak populations of native insect populations in New Zealand. Abstr. 43th Ann Meeting Soc. Invertebr. Pathol. 58

Hao J (2014) Genomic studies of abiotic stresses in grasses. PhD Thesis. Iowa. 155 p.

Stamets PE (2002) Mycoattractants and mycopesticides. Invention patent US7122176B2

Index Fungorum (2018) http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names (14.05.2020)

Examples of Translated Russian References

Vasyukova NI, Ozeretskovskaya OL, Chalenko GI, Gerasimova NG et al (2010) [Immunizing activity of chitosan derivatives with salicylic acid and its fragments]. Prikladnaya biokhimiya i mikrobiologiya 46(3):379–384 (In Russian)

Babich NV, Yakovlev AA (2018) [Laboratory methods of estimation of biological efficiency of plant protection rodenticides from voles of genus Microtus]. Vestnik zashchity rasteniy 4(98):58–62 (In Russian) http://www.doi.org/10.31993/2308-6459-2018-4(98)-58-62

Chenkin AF, Zakharenko VA (1979) Spravochnik agronoma po zaschite rasteniy [Handbook of agronomist in plant protection]. Moscow: Rosselkhozizdat. 352 p. (In Russian)

Dedkov VP, Volodina AA, Gubareva IYu (2006) [Review of fungi of the Kaliningrad region]. In: Dedkov VP, Gubareva IYu (eds) Bioraznoobraziye Kaliningradskoy oblasti. Chast 1. Griby, lishayniki, plauny, khvoshchi i paporotniki Kaliningradskoy oblasti [Biodiversity of the Kaliningrad region. Part 1. Fungi, lichens, mosses, horsetails and ferns in Kaliningrad region]. Kaliningrad: Baltiyskiy federalnyy universitet imeni Immanuila Kanta. 6–78 (In Russian)

Dolzhenko VI, ed (2009) Metodicheskie ukazaniya po registratsionnym ispytaniyam insektitsidov, akaritsidov, molluskitsidov i rodentitsidov v selskom khozyaystve [Guides for registration trials of insecticides, acaricides, molluscicides and rodenticides in agriculture]. St. Petersburg: VIZR. 322 p. (In Russian)

Mikhailova LA (1996) Zakonomernosti izmenchivosti populyatsiy vozbuditelya buroy rzhavchiny i geneticheskiy kontrol ustoychivosti pshenitsy k bolezni [Variability patterns of the brown rust agent and genetic control of wheat resistance to the disease]. Abstr. Dr. Biol. Thesis. St. Petersburg. 63 p. (In Russian)

List of pesticides and agrochemicals approved for usage on the territory of Russian Federation (2018) Appendix to the journal «Zashchita i karantin rasteniy» 5:720–725 (In Russian)

GOST 21507-2013. Plant Protection. Terms and definitions (2014) Moscow: Standartinform (In Russian)

Stepanova ND (2013) [Seed potato protection system against diseases and pests in the North-West region]. Fitosanitarnaya optimizatsiya agroekosistem. Materialy Tretyego Vserossiyskogo Syezda po zashchite rasteniy [Phytosanitary optimization of agroekosystems. Proc. 3rd All-Russ. Congr. Plant Protection]. 1:183–185 (In Russian)

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