PLANT SCIENCE

The original papers in "Rastenievudni Naouki" Journal must necessarily include summary (in Bulgarian and English languages), introduction, material and methods, results, discussion and references. The summary should present in a most concised form (not more than 160 words) the subject of investigation, the experimental materials and methods, the basic results and conclusions. Six key words are given at the end. In the introductory part the authors are expected to substantiate the necessity of their investigations on the background of current literary data dealing with the respective problem, to provide an working hypothesis and to specify their purposes. The applied methodical approaches should be clearly and precisely described or cited. Undesirable for the Results section is the presentation and detailed description of any primary or insignificant data. Results and Discussion sections may be unified by the decision of the authors.
In the short articles papers (up to 3 pages) reports are made on original result concerning newly developed varieties, technologies or plant forms and methods of significant contribution to the development of plant growing industry. Obligatory sections for the articles of this type as well as for the review articles are the summary (in Bulgarian and English) and the references*
The journal preserves the existing "New varieties" rubric. The review articles (up to 8 pages) should treat current and scientifically important problems of the plant growing and should provide deep and exhaustive analysis of the Bulgarian and world achievements in the given sphere.
1. Manuscripts are presented at the editorial office in two fully completed copies formed as standard typewritten pages (1800 strokes) and on a diskette accompanied by a record from a meeting of the primary unit where the paper has been accepted. Materials on the diskette should be of a size for MS Word for Windows (*.DOC) the graphs and figures - for MS Excel (*.XLS) or as screen images of
TIFF, JPG size (with a dividing capacity no less than 225 dpi and rate of compression for the JPG files no less than 9)
2. The language and stylistic formation of the materials presented is obligation and responsibility of the authors themselves.
3. The title of the paper (article) must be short, precise, without abbreviations and must designate the objects of investigation. The names and surnames of the authors should be given under it and also the name and address of the institution they work in. When the paper is written by a team of authors one must be pointed out whom the editor will keep in touch with.
4. The tables are presented on a separate page. Their headings and the text included should be written in both Bulgarian and English.
5. The illustrations (figures) must be of really high quality making possible their direct printing. Their size should not exceed 8.6 x 23.6 cm (for single column printing) and 18.2 x 23.6 cm (for double column printing). Parts of composite figures are marked by using small Latin letters (a, b, c, ...) The headings of the figures are written in Bulgarian and English languages on a separate page.
6. Use is made of the International System of Measuring Units - SI.
7. Literature is cited in the text according to the Harvard system (name-year). When the authors are more than 2 only the name of the first one is given, followed by et al. If several citations are presented about a given thesis they are chronologically arranged.
8. The list of cited literature (the References) follows immediately after the text and is made by arranging the names of the authors in an alphabetical order while bibliographical data about the titles of periodicals include the names and initials of the authors, the year, the title, the name of the journal, its volume, the first and the last page. For books the name and location of the publisher are also given. The list of references begins with the titles in Cyrillic alphabet.
9. The manuscripts not answering the requirements of the Editorial board are sent back to the authors for remaking.
10. The final decision about the manuscripts presented is taken By the Editorial board on the basis of the opinion given by a special reviewer it has appointed.
11. The Journal does not accept materials that are fully or partially published elsewhere or that are in the press for other publications as well as such that constitute a part of already defended dissertations for Philosophy or Doctor degrees.
12. Proof sheets are sent to the corresponding author who must send them back to the Editorial office 48 hours after their receive.
13. Reprints of the papers may be ordered by the authors directly from the publishing house after being accepted for publication,
14. In case of non-observance of the conditions specified above, the editors will give no effect to the materials, nor will send them back and will bear no responsibility for such that have not been a sited for within a 6-month period.