Editorial Policies

Section Policies Research Article

 Open Submissions

 Indexed

 Peer Reviewed

Research Note

 Open Submissions

 Indexed

 Peer Reviewed

 Publication Frequency

Quarterly (March, June, September, December)

 

Open Access policy

EJPB is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the users or his/her institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author to facilitate global exchange of knowledge. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Ethics statement

Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement

Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conceptualization, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-

 Review Policy: 

Research articles submitted will be subjected into DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEWS. On the basis of referee’s comments, the paper will be accepted for further processing or rejected. Upon favorable comments by the referees, author(s) will be asked by the editor to revise the paper / answer the queries. Papers are accepted on the understanding that the work described is original and has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere and that the authors have obtained necessary authorization for publication of the material submitted.

Copyright: Submission of a manuscript implies the following:

  1. a) The work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of thesis)
  2. b) This manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere;
  3. c) When the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree for automatic transfer of the copyright to the Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding and Indian Society of Plant Breeders.