Journal of Agriculture & Life Sciences

Submission

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the e-mail to the editor at [email protected]

Authors are advised to follow the Author Guidelines in preparing the manuscript before submission.

Review and Publication Process

A full double-blind refereeing process is used that comprises of the following steps.

• Paper is sent to 2 reviewers for review.
• The reviewers' recommendations determine whether a paper will be accepted / accepted subject to change / subject to resubmission with significant changes / rejected.
• For papers which require changes, the same reviewers will be used to ensure that the quality of the revised paper is acceptable.
• If the paper is accepted by the reviewers, author(s) will be notified to pay the author fee.
• Acceptance letter will be provided after the payment has been made.
• Author/Corresponding Author will be notified about the possible date of publication (both online and print).
• One hard copy of the published journal (Print) for each article will be sent to the author/corresponding author.

The review process takes maximum two weeks.

Copyright

Copyrights for articles published in JALS are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.

Publication fee

BRPI follows a gold open access publication model, ensuring that all published papers are freely available to the public. Authors from higher and middle-income countries are required to pay a publication fee of $350 per paper, while authors from low-income countries (defined as those with a GNI per capita of less than $3,000), as well as PhD scholars and currently unemployed academics, are charged a reduced fee of $250 per paper. Print copies of the journal are available for purchase at $50 per copy. Notably, the publication fee is charged only after the paper has been accepted for publication by the reviewers. All papers are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), permitting unrestricted use and distribution. Authors retain the copyright to their works, safeguarding their intellectual property rights. BRPI adheres to industry standards in open access publishing and maintains a no-waiver policy, meaning the fees are uniformly applied to all authors without exception.