Papers must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by or any other publisher. The submitting (corresponding) author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution. Only an acknowledgment from the editorial office officially establishes and confirms the date of receipt. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the corresponding author(s) before publication unless otherwise indicated. It is a condition for submission of a paper that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability. All enquiries concerning the publication of accepted papers should be addressed to e-mail
Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding (EJPB) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published four times a year (the end of March, June, September, and December) in a printed and an electronic version. EJPB publishes novel and advanced original research articles on topics related to the plant breeding science of field crops and resource plants, sustainable agriculture, environmental change, crop improvement. Also covered are related subjects in a wide range of sciences such as genetic, cytogenetic and biotechnological approaches for crop improvement. Authors must conform to the following rules of publication: 1. The material sent for publication must be original, not published before or sent to any another destination for publication. 2. The languages of publication is English with English and Arabic abstracts. An abstract of the work submitted for publication (not more than 300 words) should be given to the direction of the journal, and every abstract should be followed with key words.
Authorship:
Authors should provide a description of what each contributed, and editors should publish that information. All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments, and what they did should be described
Co-author contributions:
Authors are strongly encouraged to include a statement in the end noted to specify the actual contribution of each co-author to the completed work. Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding (EJPB) allows one co-author to be specified as having contributed equally to the work being described. Author contribution statement should be clear.
Peer-Review:
Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding (EJPB) aims at rapid publication of high quality research while maintaining rigorous but sympathetic peer review process. Manuscripts (other than those that are of insufficient quality or unlikely to be competitive enough for publication) will be peer-reviewed by two or more experts in the fields, and a decision is returned to the authors in about three weeks. If due to special circumstance, the review process takes more time, authors will be informed by email or by the homepage. Manuscripts with significant results will be reviewed and published at the highest priority and speed. Possible decisions on a manuscript are:
Accepted as it is:
Accepted after minor revision
Accepted after major revision
Rejected
If minor revision is required, authors should return a revised version as soon as possible within 2 weeks. If major revision is required, authors should return a revised version within 4 weeks.
About Duplicate publication
Material submitted to Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding (EJPB) must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors submitting a contribution to Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding who have related material under consideration or in press elsewhere should upload a clearly marked copy at the time of submission and draw the editor's attention to it in their cover letter. If a part of a contribution that an author wishes to submit to Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding has appeared or will appear elsewhere, the author must specify the details in the cover letter. Consideration by the Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding is possible if the main result, conclusion, or implications are not apparent from the other work, or if there are other factors.
Author is responsible to get permission from previous publisher or copyright holder if an author is re-using any part of paper e.g., figure(s), published elsewhere, or that is copyrighted. The editors consider all the materials in good faith that their journals have full permission to publish every part of the submitted material including illustrations.
About Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is the use or close imitation of the language and ideas of another author and representation of them as one's own original work. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate references.
Plagiarism can be said to have clearly occurred when large chunks of text have been copied and pasted. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication in the Journals. But minor plagiarism without dishonest intent is relatively frequent.
If a case of plagiarism comes to light after a paper is published in Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding, the journal will conduct a preliminary investigation. If plagiarism is found, the journal will contact the author's institute and funding agencies. A determination of misconduct will lead the Journal to run a statement, bidirectional linked online to and from the original paper, to note the plagiarism and to provide a reference to the plagiarized material. The paper containing the plagiarism will also be obviously marked on each page of the PDF. Depending on the extent of the plagiarism, the paper may also be formally retracted.
Ethical Procedure:
Egyptian Journal of Plant Breeding reviewers may recognize and report that he/she is refereeing, or has recently refereed, a similar or identical paper for another journal by the same author(s). Readers may report that they have seen the same article elsewhere, or authors may see their own published work being plagiarized. In all cases we address ethical concerns diligently following an issue-specific standard.
In serious cases of fraud that result in retraction of the article, a retraction notice will be published in the journal and will be linked to the article in the online version. The online version will also be marked “retracted” with the retraction date.