Derim
Instructions for Authors
1-Derim welcomes original papers on all aspects of Agricultural Sciences in Turkish and English. This journal is published twice a year.
2- Manuscript which includes figure and table should not exceed 16 printed pages and require ending in double pages. Manuscripts should be sent electronically using the manuscript submission tools at Pleasedo notforget to register yourself as an “author”.Authors are required to sign a Copyright Release Form (CRF) which can be obtained from the web page ( Submission of an article implies that the presented work has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract). A submitted paper will be pre-reviewed by the editorial board. Manuscripts are rejected if they do not comply with the instructions to authors, or are beyond the scope of the journal. Manuscriptsthat enter the peer review process are sent to at least two reviewers, who are experts in the relevant field.Other than reviewers and editorial board suggestions the Journal does not allow addition to or removal from the text after submission.Revised manuscript should be sent on the journal website (
3- Manuscript Style and Organization:
3.1 Margin and font: Page sizeshould be 16,5 cm*23,4cm. Manuscripts must be in MS-Word text format, in Tahoma font of 10-font size, single spaced. Margin of top 3,5 cm, bottom 3 cm, left 2,25cm, right 2,25cm, head note 2,5cm, footnote 2cm.
Manuscripts should be organized in the following order: title, authors name and address, abstract, keywords, Body of text (divided by subheadings), Acknowledgements (If necessary) and References. The text must be arranged in a single column. All headings left justified, the first lines of all paragraphs 1 cm inside, line between paragraphs should not be spaced.
3.2. Manuscript Title: Title should be clear, descriptive and not too long.The titlemust be arranged as sentence style, 10 point and bold.
3.3. Abstract and Keywords: The initial letters must be capital, 9-size point, bold, aligned to the left. Abstract must be arranged two line spacingafter the author‘s address. Please provide a short and comprehensive abstract (Not more than 200 words). Give objective, brief methodology, important findings and conclusion of your study. The initials of keywords must be capital, words separated by commas and at the end of the abstract up to five key words that best describe the nature of the research.
3.4. Text: Body of text should be arranged in spelling rules below with regular font and 10-point size, two lines spacingafter the Keywords. Section headings shouldbe left justified,bold, with the first lettercapitalized. The subheadings should be bold, numbered and only first word lettercapitalized. The third-degree subtitles must be the normal sentence, italics and numbered (1. Introduction, 2.1. Plant material, 2.2.3. Disease severity). All headings should be aligned to the left, main headings should be spacing two line of the top and one line of the bottom and subheadings should be spacing one line of the top and one line of the bottom. The first lines of all paragraphs should be indented 1 cm. The text of the manuscript;
1. Introduction
(The Introduction should set the scene fully and clearly. Indicate the reasons why the study was carried out, any previous work relating to your study should be summarized by a few relevant references),
2. Materials and Methods: (Relevant details should be given about the materials and methods. Must contain all details of the experimental procedure for the successful repetition of the experiment),
3. Result and Discussion(Results should be presented with information, figures and/or tables and references,and discussion of other work should not be repeated in the section. Tabular material and figures are especially important for providing comparative results without resorting to detailed textual descriptions,
4. Conclusion (Authors should interpret the significance of the findings as they relate to other relevant literature, describe any limitations of the study, and make recommendations for future research),
Authors are strongly recommended to consult the sample copy of Journal freely available at the website.
3.5. Acknowledgements
Acknowledgementsmust be typed without page number, as brief as possible and referring to the contribution, in 9 point.
3.6.Citations and Literature Cited
List the authors in alphabetical order, letter by letter, and in chronological order for publications of the same author(s). All authors’ surnames should be in capitals, with initials after surname. Citations to references in the text are listed chronologically surrounded in parentheses with the following format: (Peters, 1950; Jones and Smith, 1990; Brown et al., 1999a). Citations and Literature Cited must be typed in 9-point size including the title. If there are two authors with the same name that have published in the same year, initials may be used to avoid confusion. And “et al." is used for three or more authors. ). If there are two publications of the same author that have published in the same year, the following format should be used; Davies, 1990a.
References in the text examples:
“caused (Ağaoğlu, 1999).”
“Davies and Kempton (1975) have expressed………”
“……..…gradually increases (Ho et al., 1983; Kaynaş and Sürmeli, 1994).”
“…………is expressed (Doi, 1990a, b).”
Book:
Güneş, T., Arıkan, R. 1988.Tarım Ekonomisi İstatistiği. Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları: 1049, Ders Kitabı:305, 293 s., Ankara.
Chapter in Book:
Baysal, Ö.,Teixeria da Silva, J. A. 2006. Induced Resistance: A New Approach in Plant Protection for Floriculture and Ornamental Plants. pp. 231-237. In: Teixeria da Silva, J. A. (ed.), Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology Advances and Topical Issues. Global Science Books, UK.
Journal Paper:
Kara, S., Altındişli, A., Çoban, H., İlter, E. 1997. Dormeks uygulamalarının yuvarlak çekirdeksiz üzüm çeşidinin uyanma, olgunlaşma ve sofralık üzüm kalitesine etkisi üzerine araştirmalar. Ege Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi, 34:1-2.
Conference Proceedings:
Tandoğan, S., Uzun, H.İ., Pekmezci, M. 1992. Asmalara farklı zaman ve dozlarda uygulanan hidrojen siyanamidin erkencilik üzerine etkileri. Türkiye I. Ulusal Bahçe Bitkileri Kongresi, 13-16 Ekim 1992, İzmir, Cilt II: 505-509.
Website:
TÜİK (2010).Bitkisel Üretim İstatistikleri. Date accessed: October 16, 2012.
FAO (2011). Agricultural Production Data. Date accessed: February06, 2014.
Literature of anonymous origin should be cited with the date if possible, if there is no preparation date only the date of access should be written.
3.7. Figures and Tables
Figures, graphics, photographs should be referred to as “figure”; numerical values as “Table” and should be in the relevant section of the test and numbered respectively; information should be written below the figure, above the table in normal sentence style and in 9 point. Tables and figures should be part of the text and have a blank line between them. Tables should be organised in the manner shown below.
Table 4. Changes found in the fruit juice content of Valencia Late oranges (%)
Storage time (month) / Dörtyol / Average / Samandağ / Average4°C / 6°C / 4°C / 6°C
0 / 57.57 / 57.57 / 57.57 / a* / 57.88 / 57.88 / 57.88 / ab
1 / 54.58 / 53.26 / 53.92 / b / 58.05 / 59.38 / 58.72 / a
2 / 48.05 / 56.62 / 52.34 / b / 57.15 / 58.02 / 57.59 / abc
3 / 53.23 / 54.32 / 53.78 / b / 56.23 / 57.32 / 56.78 / abc
4 / 51.73 / 52.23 / 51.98 / b / 54.73 / 55.23 / 54.98 / c
5 / 53.32 / 55.43 / 54.38 / b / 56.32 / 58.43 / 57.38 / abc
6 / 51.21 / 53.78 / 52.50 / b / 54.21 / 56.78 / 55.50 / bc
*Within a row, means followed by different letters are significantly different (P<0.05)
3.8. Abbreviations
SI units should be used. Decimals should be shown with a dot instead of a comma. (20.45 g instead of 20,45). “/” should not be used (1.42 g cm-3 should be written instead of 1.42 g/cm3). A blank space should be used instead of a punctuation mark for a thousand units.
4-Collected papers (except material and methods,results) should be written according to the rules in article 3.
5-Author(s) accept thorough responsibility about the publication.
6-Author(s) are not entitled to receive royalty. A copy of the publication is sent to them.
7-Adraft article can be found at “”.