Author Guidelines

General Submission Policy

The manuscript must be original and unpublished elsewhere, including in other journals, monographs, or book chapters. LJAAS publishes original research articles, meta-analyses, reviews, and short communications demonstrating international significance.

Manuscripts must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are only being considered by this journal. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the article’s publication has been approved by all the other coauthors. In addition, a submission email will be sent to all coauthors to confirm their consent. It is also the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that the article has all necessary institutional approvals.

Only an acknowledgment from the editorial office establishes the date of receipt. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the corresponding author before publication unless otherwise indicated. Authors must verify compliance with all Author Guidelines during the submission process. Failure to do so may result in the return of your manuscript.

Manuscript Preparation Format and Structure

Tables and figures could be integrated into the text or placed at the end of the manuscript following the reference section. Use the automatic line number and page numbering function, and the page number should appear at the bottom center of the page throughout the manuscript. Indentations, line breaks, section breaks, and unnecessary spaces in the text are not allowed; paragraphs should be justified. All manuscripts must be written in clear and grammatically correct English.

Technical Guidelines

Abbreviations

In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. The full terms for which an abbreviation should be defined at the first mention and used consistently thereafter throughout the manuscript. Abbreviations used in a table or a figure should be defined in the table footnote or the figure legend.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be designated within the text using a superscript number to provide additional information. Footnotes should also be well-defined and placed at the end of each respective table. The same could be done for figure legends and authors of the manuscript. It is not allowed to use footnotes for references/citations.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, and photos that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence(s) that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Also, a proper citation of such sources is required. Any material received without such evidence(s) will be assumed to originate from the authors, and the authors are responsible for any consequences.

Ethical Responsibility & Peer Review

The journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. All authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results. When reporting experiments involving animals, authors are expected to have observed all ethical standards on the care and use of animals or any pertinent national law.

Peer Review: To be published in LJAAS, manuscripts must pass double-anonymized peer review. Authors and reviewers cannot know each other’s identities. Move any author-identifying information from the main manuscript (except the title page, funding information, and acknowledgments).

Manuscript Structure

Typical research papers submitted to LJAAS should follow this order: Title, Authors’ names and affiliations, Corresponding author’s email, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods or Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgement, References.

Title Page

A concise and informative title (font size 14, bold, title case). Preferably, the title should not contain abbreviations. Scientific names should be replaced with common names in the title, and the former placed in keywords. Numerical superscripts should be used for affiliations; an asterisk (*) marks the corresponding author.

Abstract & Keywords

Abstract: Written as a structured mini-paper (250-300 words) in one paragraph including background, objectives, methods, results, and conclusions.
Keywords: Up to five words, alphabetical order, separated by semicolon. Avoid general/plural terms.

References (APA Style)

LJAAS uses the APA (American Psychological Association) Style author–date citation system.

Reference Examples

Submission and Post-Acceptance

Revisions: Use yellow text highlighting to indicate changes in the revised manuscript. Authors should return the revised version along with a "comment-by-response" rebuttal sheet.

Publication Charge: There is no Article Processing Charge (APC) to publish in the Lalibela Journal of Agricultural and Applied Sciences.

Open Access: LJAAS is a fully Open Access (OA) journal. Accepted articles are published online within 5-6 weeks after production starts.