Guides for Authors:

Submission
Our online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. Editable files (word file) are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail. Please submit your article via http://ijws.ir.

Instructions for Editing the Articles

The articles should be typed in Office Word, in A4 paper size, with a margin of 2.5 cm on both sides and line spacing of 1.5 cm. The tables and figures (including the images, pictures, etc.) should be prepared in both English and Persian languages. A commitment form including the consent of all authors, as well as related authorities/institutions, should be submitted with the manuscript.

Font

To distinguish the different part of the manuscript, use the following fonts for each part:

• Title: The title of the manuscript should be typed in 16-point B-Zar (14-point Times New Roman for English title), Bold-face, heading 1, centered..  
• Author Name: Author names should be typed in 11-point B-Zar (9-point Times New Roman), Bold-face, centered.  
• Author address: Author names should be typed in 11-point B-Zar (9-point Times New Roman), centered.  

• Corresponding author: It should be typed in 11-point Times New Roman.

• Abstract: The abstract of the manuscript should be typed in 14-point B-Zar (12-point Times New Roman for English abstract). The abstract should be justified. The special indention should be in NONE. LINE spacing is multiple 1.5.

• Other sections: The entire manuscript should be typed in 14-point B-Zar (12-point Times New Roman for English words). The paragraph should be justified. The special indention should be in 1.27 cm. The body of the paper should be written in a single-column format.

• Table: Times New Roman 10 is the default font of tables, numbered from 1.

Research articles should not exceed 15 pages (the reference included). They should include the Title Page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement (optional) and References.

1. Title Page: This page includes the following:

• Title: The articles’ titles should be short, clear, and indicative of the article’s contents.
• Author’s Name: The authors’ names and workplaces have to include the name of the department, faculty, university, city, and country. It is necessary to add the corresponding authors’ phone number, mobile number, and email for further correspondence.

2. Abstract: The abstract is a brief and comprehensive description of the article’s contents. This section must indicate the works done as well as the results obtained by itself so that the reader will not be forced to read the text for comprehension. It should have study background, objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. The abstracts must not exceed 10 lines. At the end of the abstract page, keywords (5 keywords) should be written. If possible, it is better to have different keywords than the words, used in the article’s title. In case of using abbreviations in the abstract, on the first use the complete name, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, should be given.
3. Introduction: This section presents the problem under research as well as the researcher’s purpose for the research work or reporting it. Hence, the introduction should feature research background briefly along with their relation with the current article’s topic. At the end, the motivation behind the conducted work has to be indicated as well. It is necessary to mention the goal of the current study at the end of the introduction.
4. Materials and Methods: This section must name all the tools and devices, used specifically for the research, and the author should avoid mentioning general laboratory substances and devices. As for specific substances and devices, the author has to mention the name of the company producing them, as well as the relevant city and country. The methodology should be presented in a way that it will be possible for other researchers to conduct it again. Briefly, it should indicate the way and the process of the conducted work. The author must avoid mentioning methodologies, previously published in other journals, and must suffice to mentioning the reference only. In case of statistical analysis, the used methods must be mentioned comprehensively, while referring to the valid reference. It is necessary to mention the sample size, number of independent reiterations of each test, and the number of reiterations within each test.
5. Results and Discussion: This section includes the results obtained from a research work. The obtained data and the results must be presented in a logical and useful way to clarify the discussion and the conclusion. Therefore, it could be accompanied by tables, charts, and pictures. The author must be careful to use just one of these, for instance the chart or the table, and not both of them, in order to express a purpose. It is necessary not to give complete description of the tables in the text and only bring the important issues. The discussionshould explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section may be appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

5.1. References: All reference, used in the text, must be indicated in the article’s index. For those texts, written by one author, use the author’s family name like “Goodman, 2003”. In case there are two authors for a text, both of their names are written as above (Tharp & Kells, 2001). For texts with more than two authors, the reference will be as “Fernandes et al., 2002”. If necessary, the reference number can be indicated at the end of each paragraph.

5.2. Tables and Figures: The tables/figures should be placed in the text of the manuscript in the proper place. Number of tables/figures consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. The caption should be placed above the tables and below the figures. Explain the origin of the data and any table notes should be placed below the table body. The tables/figures, themselves, ought to have brief and clear titles. Be sparing in the use of tables/figures and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. The style of the tables/figures should be simple and the font of the tables/figures should be Times New Roman. The title of tables and figures should be prepared in both English and Persian languages. The tables/figures must not exceed one A4 page. In order to have a statistical comparison of the tables’/figures’ numbers, superscript letters must be used, appropriately described at the bottom of the table/figure.

6. Conclusion: The main conclusions of the study must be presented in a short Conclusions section.
7. Acknowledgment: In this section, the author mentions sources of funding, the guidance and help of others and thanks them briefly.
8. Reference: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the standard forms in the National Library of Medicine, USA, database (MEDLINE or PubMed). The following are examples of style:

8.1. Reference to a journal publication

8.1.1. Single author

Wilson, R.G.J. 1981. Weed control in established dryland Alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Weed Sci. 29:  615- 618.

8.1.2. Two authors

Pline, W.A. and Wilcut, J.W. 2007. Tolerance and accumulation of shikimic acid in response to glyphosate applications in glyphosate-resistant and nonglyphosate-resistant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). J. Agric. Food Chem. 50: 506–512.

8.1.3. Three or more authors

Arregi, M.C., Sanchez, D. and Scotta, R. 1998. Weed control in established Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) with posremergrnce herbicides. Weed Technol. 3: 424-428.

8.2. Reference to a Book

8.2.1. Reference to a Persian Book

  Karimi, H. 1990. Alfalfa. University Press. Center 371 Pp. (In Persian).

8.2.1. Reference to an English Book

Ahrens, W.H. 1994. Herbicide Handbook. 7th edn. Champaign, IL: Weed Science Society of America. 224 Pp.

8.3. Reference to a paper in a book

Baver, L.D. and Gardner, W.H. 1972. Flow in stratified soil systems. Pages 343–345 in Baver LD, ed. Soil Physics. New York: Academic Press.

8.4. Reference to a scientific conference publication

Ghorbanli, M. and Najafpour, M. 2005. Effect of extracts of Persian and Berseem clover on –peroxidase activity of field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis L.) hypocotyl. Proceedings of the 4th World Congressnon Allelopathy, 21-26 August, Wagga Wagga, Australia.

8.5. Reference to a scientific research report

Shimi, P. 2003. Management of Cynanchum acutum in apple orchard. Final Report. Iranian Research Institue of Plant Protection, 25 Pp.

8.6. Reference to an anonymous source

Anonymous, 2001. Project Summary Comparative Genomics of Domestication Traits in Lettuce and Sunflower. http://veghome.ucdavis.edu/faculty/michelmore/ projectsummary.htm. Accessed August 23, 2001.

8.7. Reference to a web address

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.1999. Market and Industry Services Branch, Horticulture and Special Crops Division. http://www.Agr.ca/misb/spcrops/bean_e.html. Accessed: January 29, 2001.

 

It is also worth mentioning that in order to publish an article in this journal, it is necessary that the first author of the article be a member of Iranian Society of Weed Science (ISWS).