I. Submission requirements
1. The manuscript shall meet the aims and scope of Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences.
2. The manuscript shall contain the latest research achievements.
3. The manuscript shall meet our format requirements.
4. The manuscript shall be original, without any academic misconduct, such as simultaneous submission to multiple journals or text similarity with other submissions, and does not involve state secrets.
5. All authors of the manuscript shall accept our Copyright Statement.
6. All authors of the manuscript shall acknowledge the research achievements and make real contributions to the research.
7. The manuscript must uphold the principles of originality and authenticity. The use of AI tools to generate fabricated content, manipulate research results, or concoct false references and literature content (especially in the Introduction and Discussion sections) is strictly prohibited. Any such violations will result in immediate rejection or retraction.
8. When submitting the manuscript, it is suggested to provide two reviewers (at deputy senior or above and different provinces) from different institutions in the same industry to enhance the peer review. The information of the reviewers includes name, title, academic background, research interests, working institution, contact address, telephone number, and E-mail.
II. Submission and manuscript processing period
You shall log in to the gathering and editing system from the "Online Office Platform" — "Author Login" on the home of our official website. Your manuscript shall be prepared according to our submission template. The submission template is available from "Instructions for Authors" — "Manuscript Template" on our official website. All manuscripts will be subjected to a first review by editorial directors, a double-blind peer review by external experts (two or more external experts), a second review by associate editors, and a final review by the Editor in Chief to evaluate the scientificity, innovation, and practicability of the manuscript.
Generally, it will take 2 to 4 months to determine whether the received manuscript is accepted. If the manuscript returned for modification is not submitted again after 3 months without giving any reasons, it will be considered as a new one.
III. Duplication checking system
The Journal adopts the Academic Misconduct Literature Check (AMLC, https://check.cnki.net/amlc2/) to check the duplication of all submitted manuscripts. The total text replication ratio is required to be below 15%. Authors are advised to conduct their own similarity checks via CNKI or other services prior to submission.
IV. Website and digital publishing
After the manuscript is published, our official website will provide readers with the full text of the current and past issues (PDF format) free of charge, and compile them into various databases, including but not limited to CNKI (https://www.cnki.net), Wanfang (https://www.wanfangdata.com.cn), Chaoxing (https://qikan.chaoxing.com), etc.
V. Copyright transfer and academic misconduct prevention
Authors are required to upload the Copyright Statement. For details, please refer to the attachment Copyright Statement under the Instructions for Authors on our official website.
To accelerate publication, the journal has enabled CNKI Online First publishing. Authors who select the “Agree to Online First” option will have their officially accepted manuscripts published online in advance.
VI. Open access policies
Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences uses a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) to enable third parties to copy, distribute, exhibit, perform, show, broadcast, or disseminate to the public through networks the articles published in this journal, but only for non-commercial purposes, with attribution license and no derivatives. For more information, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.