Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology (bimonthly) was founded in 1995. It is a national academic journal (periodical level) sponsored by Chengdu Institute of Biology, China Academy of Sciences, and is the core journal of applied biology and environmental biology in China. Purpose of this journal: to exchange new achievements, new technologies, new methods and new progress in biology and related disciplines at home and abroad, and to strengthen the function of biological science research in serving the national economic construction and improving people's living standards. The content covers: biology and related disciplines of resource development and sustainable development, environmental improvement, restoration and reconstruction of degraded ecosystems, as well as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, medicine, energy, light industry, food and other fields (Chinese core [20 1 1],

CSCD Core Library [20 15-20 16], Science and Technology Core [20 14])

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Submission instructions:

1- First submission

Before submitting a manuscript to this journal, the author is required to ensure that the content of the manuscript does not involve state secrets, has no political mistakes, is in line with the scope of this journal ("Introduction to this journal"), has made breakthrough progress (research papers) or has unique opinions (review), has been brainstormed and recognized by all authors in research and writing, and has no intellectual property disputes, forgery, plagiarism, "multiple contributions for one manuscript" and "sausage papers" (. Read carefully the submission guide and copyright agreement of this journal (if the manuscript is abstract, the author must also read the requirements of this journal), and then modify and standardize it according to the solicitation guide of this journal, and then you can submit it online.

There is no need to send an electronic version of the manuscript, nor does it need to send a paper version. Please keep the electronic version, at least one paper version and all the data of this manuscript in case of emergency. When necessary, the editorial department may ask the author to provide original materials and documents. (Note: When submitting for the first time, on the premise of ensuring the content quality and observing the national standards and industry norms, its format and specifications may not necessarily conform to this journal; However, after the third trial, if this magazine intends to hire a manuscript and requires the author to revise and improve the contents of the manuscript, it must be standardized one by one according to the "call for papers" of this magazine and the latest published papers or paper templates (regardless of columns) before it can be officially hired. )

When submitting the online manuscript, please pay attention to the required items and specific requirements marked with an asterisk, and give the detailed contact address (including postcode), e-mail address (e-mail addresses of the first author and correspondent are required), telephone numbers and personal profiles of all authors, and other information that needs special explanation (such as the importance and innovation of the manuscript, whether it is a manuscript of this journal, whether it has a series of papers, whether it is recommended by famous experts, and whether there are experts who avoid reviewing manuscripts). ). If the contact information changes during the whole process before the publication of the manuscript, please update it in time.

2- Preliminary review of manuscripts

After receiving the author's contribution, the editorial department downloads it to the warehouse for preliminary examination, that is, by carefully reading the full text, it conducts preliminary examination and evaluation on the topic, specialty, academic level, data authenticity, language expression, style and format of the contribution, and there are mainly two kinds of handling opinions:

(1) Direct rejection: The possible reasons are that the content of the manuscript does not conform to the scope of our report, the academic level is relatively low in our recent submission, and there are great defects in data viewpoint or language expression. Due to the low publication rate (the number of manuscripts published each year/the number of manuscripts received each year), that is, the rejection rate is high, and more manuscripts are rejected without peer review (external review) and only after preliminary review, please understand; This practice can improve the efficiency of the follow-up work of the editorial department, reduce the invalid detention time of the manuscript in the editorial department and the invalid waiting time of the author, and does not require the author to pay the manuscript review fee; The editorial department will treat the manuscript objectively, fairly and cautiously, and may suggest which publications or publications the manuscript is more suitable for. If you have objections, you can also appeal.

(2) Accept and continue the trial: agree to accept the manuscript, that is, inform the author to pay the manuscript review fee as soon as possible (with official invoice, "charging procedures") and formally handle the "copyright agreement" (with the seal of the unit affiliated to the top-level fund, and the seal of the first unit without the fund). The manuscript will enter the peer review (external review) stage.

3- Peer Review (External Audit)

The editorial department selects 3 external audit experts for each manuscript. Selected external audit experts: front-line scientific researchers, researchers or professors who are in line with the discipline and specialty of the manuscript, excluding those who are purely engaged in scientific research management; Be able to comprehensively and fairly review and evaluate the quality of manuscripts; It is necessary to point out the advantages and disadvantages of the manuscript and put forward suggestions for revision, which is of substantial help to the author; Be able to feedback the evaluation opinions within the agreed short time.

4- Final Review of Manuscripts

The editorial department will decide whether to hire the manuscript after receiving all the external audit opinions. This print makes a choice according to the external audit opinion and the specific situation of this print, which may be the opposite choice to the external audit opinion. This print promises to give the author a reply whether to hire or not within 2 months; Due to unforeseen factors, a small number of manuscripts were delayed. The author can change the manuscript to the editorial department after making a statement, or wait for the review or review opinions of this journal. There are three main types of handling opinions:

(1) Rejection: generally, the author will be informed of the reasons, and suggestions will be made on how to improve the experiment, conduct in-depth research or switch to other journals.

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Employment: It is only a preliminary employment (manuscripts with excellent content and style can be directly employed), and the author needs to modify the full text item by item (regardless of columns) according to the reasonable suggestions in the peer review opinions, the "Call for Papers Notice" of the editorial department and the latest published papers or thesis templates. When the revised draft is returned, it should be accompanied by a revision explanation, that is, answer the final opinions one by one, what aspects have been revised, what aspects have been retained and why. If the author of the communication is not the author, the revised draft and revised description must be reviewed and approved. After the editorial department receives the revised draft, it will be officially hired, and after verification, it will send an employment notice to the author. Employment documents are pre-published on the Internet after being audited.

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Rejection (revision): If the content of the manuscript conforms to this journal and has important academic significance and innovative value, but the value is not reflected due to writing reasons, or some minor experiments and data need to be supplemented, the author will be asked to revise it before submitting it. Re-submission requires re-examination by editorial department and even external experts.

After management, then decide whether to hire. The submitted documents should also be accompanied by amendments.

Under normal circumstances (if supplementary experiments are not needed), the revised manuscript and revised instructions are required to be returned within 1 month. If the editorial department rejects the manuscript, it does not mean that it will be submitted after revision. It is suggested that the author submit it to another magazine after revision. If the author disagrees with the peer review, he can give reasons, and the editorial department will take it seriously, handle it properly and return to the final decision as soon as possible. It is suggested that the author change the manuscript to another magazine after the first complaint fails, and don't waste time in further communication with the editorial department.

5- Manuscript Arrangement

After the manuscript is officially hired, the editorial department will determine the publication time according to its receipt date and revision date. Among them, international manuscripts, international cooperation manuscripts, innovative manuscripts and manuscripts with great academic value are preferred. The editorial department edits and typesets the full text of the manuscript, inquires and corrects the wrong data, viewpoints and expressions, and standardizes them to make the text and charts more readable and the layout clear and compact, which conforms to the style of this journal.

6- manuscript inspection

Manuscripts that are questioned for editing more will be returned to the author for revision. The typesetting draft is revised synchronously by the author and the editorial department, and the author is requested to return the revised results to the editorial department as soon as possible within 2 days.

Correction method ①: directly annotate and modify the typesetting PDF file; Method 2: describe page, column and row errors with word or lists in word, and correct them; And other similar methods for editing and modifying content.

The typesetting manuscript and its proofreading must be examined and approved by the correspondent before it can be rejected.

This magazine collects publishing fees (with official invoices) according to the layout of the paper, and returns at least 20% of the author's manuscript fees.

7- Paper Publishing and Periodical Delivery

All manuscripts in this issue, including front cover, back cover, catalogue, pad, etc. Will be proofread by the editorial department, revised by the editorial department, and finally sent to the printing factory for proofreading and printing. At the same time, all the papers in this issue are online, and they are provided to authors and readers for free reading and downloading in the form of abstracts and PDF full text. This magazine provides the author with a proper amount of current publications and printed copies free of charge.

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