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 in related fields.

3. The manuscript shall meet our format requirements and academic norms.

4. The manuscript shall be original, without any academic misconduct.

5. All authors of the manuscript shall accept our Copyright Transfer Commitment and Declaration.

6. All authors of the manuscript shall acknowledge the research achievements and make real contributions to the research.

7. If the manuscript has been submitted to and rejected by other academic journals, it is required to indicate the name of the journal, the rejection time and reason, the journal's review opinions, and the author's modification description when submitting the manuscript.

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 5 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

To prevent academic misconduct and improve the academic misconduct supervision system according to the national requirements for journal quality management, the Journal adopts the Academic Misconduct Literature Check (AMLC) to check the duplication of all submitted manuscripts. Website: https://check.cnki.net/amlc2/

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 sign the Copyright Transfer Commitment and Statement, Author Contribution Statement, and Conflict of Interest Statement and send them to the Editorial Office. For details, please refer to the attachment Copyright Transfer Commitment and Statement of Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences under the Instructions for Authors (https://www.hnxb.org.cn/EN/column/item12.shtml) on our official website.

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/.