Livestock Research for Rural Development 2007, Volume 19, Number 2


Editorial Procedures and Notes for Authors

Editorial policy

The mission of LRRD is to:

To this end the journal publishes both full-length papers and short communications describing the results of research that relate to the theme of sustainable rural development. Guidelines for the preparation of papers and posters are given in the section on Notes for Authors.

Submitting papers and posters to LRRD

Papers and posters should be sent by E-mail to the Senior Editor trpreston@mekarn.org. If acknowledgement is not received within two weeks then authors should send a reminder to the Senior Editor with details of the file names and dates sent.

The papers can be written with the aid of any of the principal word processing software programs and should be sent by e-mail as an attachment and with "LRRD" in the subject line. Email messages with attachments and unknown subject lines are not opened in view of virus risks.  

Editing papers for LRRD

The procedure is as follows:

Papers are coded (date of receipt [month/date/year] and first 4 letters of senior author surname [eg: 010207beng]) by the Senior Editor and  sent immediately to the associate-editors (or in some cases directly to two reviewers). The associate-editors are responsible for selecting reviewers and following the progress of the paper, to and from reviewers and authors. Associate-editors on the basis of advice from reviewers, and their own assessment, will recommend:

The responsibility of the reviewers is:

Reviewers' comments are received by the associate-editors who communicate with authors regarding any proposed changes. The associate-editors return the accepted papers to the Chief Editor who, together with the assistant editor, finalize the editing, and format the paper in "html".

The edited versions of the papers are then posted on the UTA Web Page so that authors can revise the formatted papers (a restricted URL is sent to the author for this purpose)

The final versions of the papers are sent to the publisher (CIPAV in Colombia) where they are posted on the CIPAV Web Page (http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrdhome.html).

Issues of LRRD now appear on a monthly basis.

The members of the Editorial Committee are:


The present list of reviewers is:

Name Email Code Speciality
Adem Kamalak akamalak@ksu.edu.tr ak ruminant nutrition
Alessandro Finzi finzi@unitus.it af rabbits
Alvaro Ocampo aocampo@unillanos.edu.co ao pig  nutrition
Alvaro Zapata alvaro@cipav.org.co az ruminant systems
Andrew Speedy andrew.speedy@fao.org as rural development
Bob Elliott bob.elliott@dsm,.com be monogastric nutrition
Brian Ogle brian.ogle@huv.slu.se bo monogastrics
Britta Antonsson-Ogle Britta.Ogle@sol.slu.se brit PRA
Bui Xuan An anbx@hcm.vnn.vn bxa biodigesters
Bui Xuan Men bxmen@ctu.edu.vn bxm Ducks-fish
Carlos A Sandoval Castro ccastro@tunku.uady.mx cs pigs
Carlos Gonzales gonzalezc@agr.ucv.ve cg pigs
Chedley Kayouli chedly.kayouli@gnet.tn ck nutrition ruminants
Clive Phillips c.phillips@uq.edu.au cp Animal welfare
E Fallou Guèye efgueye@refer.sn efg Village poultry
Enrique Murgueitio enriquem@cipav.org.co em agroforestry
Federico Holman f.holman@cgiar.org fh farming systems
Felix A Moreno E fmelcure@yahoo.com fm Rural development
Frands Dolberg frands@mail1.stofanet.dk fd farming systems
Gonzalo Martinez gemg7235@intercable.net.ve gm genetics milk
Hanne Hansen Hanne.Hansen@ihh.kvl.dk hh nutrition ruminants
Hans Ashov Jensen askov@poultry-development.dk haj Village poultry
Jésus A Arango arangoj@camelot.rect.ucv.ve ja Genetics ruminants
Jian-Xin Liu jxliu@zju.edu.cn liu Nutrition, ruminants
Jorge Combellas jorge.combellas@cantv.net jc N utrition ruminants, cow-calf relation
Jorge Santos Flores sflores@tunku.uady.mx js  cow-calf relation
Jose Bento S Ferraz  jbferraz@usp.br jf Genetics
José Segura segura52@hotmail.com jsc Genetics
Julio Ly julioly@uta.edu.kh jl pigs
Le Viet Ly ly.niah@netnam.vn lvl Buffaloes
Mai Van Sanh mvsanh@netnam.vn mvs Buffaloes
Nguyen Van Thu  nvthu@ctu.edu.vn nvt Buffaloes
Nguyen Xuan Trach nxtrach@hau1.edu.vn nxt nutrition ruminants
Raul Botero rbotero@earth.ac.cr rb biodigestes, sustainable agriculture 
Rena Perez renasperez@hotmail.com rp monogastrics
Rene Sansoucy rene-sansoucy@wanadoo.fr rs Co-editor
Ricardo Noguero ricardonoguera@agronica.udea.edu.co rn Animal nutrition
Ron Leng rleng@ozemail.com.au rl Nutrition
Steven Lukefahr s-lukefahr@tamuk.edu sl genetics, rabbits
Tadelle Dessie sarmeder@hotmail.com td rural poultry
Thammi Raju dtraju@yahoo.com tr Rural development
Trevor Wilson trevorbart@aol.com tw Africa farming systems
Vo Lam vlam@agu.edu.vn vl Animal nutrition

Responsibility for posting the papers on the Home Page of LRRD is with CIPAV (Hector Osorio) (hector.osorio@cipav.org.co).

Notes to Authors

The principle tools for publishing the journal are now: Open Office 2.1,  Microsoft Office XP, Corel Office 2000 (Word Perfect), Lotus 123.  These are the preferred formats for receiving papers and short communications..

Authors should examine carefully recent papers  in the journal and follow the style currently in use.

Body of Text

- For Page Set up Use: Paper size A4 and Margins 2.5 cm
- Use the font "Times New Roman" 12 pt.
- Do not use full word capitals for titles nor for names of authors.
- Include your e-mail address below your postal address in the Title
- Indicate the Keywords after the Abstract in alphabetical order
- Separate the Titles and associate-titles from the previous and next lines by an empty line, using the ‘return’ or ‘enter’ key
- Separate each paragraph by an empty line, using the ‘return’ or ‘enter’ key
- Make sure the paragraphs are aligned to the left not  “justified”
- Do not use an indent in the beginning of each paragraph

In text and tables:

Ensure that numbers contain only three digits after or before “000... ”
Eg: 234.214 becomes 234
1.2367 becomes 1.24
0.00032176 becomes 0.000322
for R2 only two digits after or before “00... ”
eg: R2 = 0.677 becomes R2 = 0.68

Graphics:

Where possible, please always supply in Excel, Open Office Calc or Lotus 123 the original spreadsheets and data which were used to produce graphics in the papers, since this allows us to produce a uniform look and maintain the quality of the finished journal. Within the graphics Font should be: Arial – Regular – 10 pt.

Tables:

Please format using the Table menu, and not Tabs and Spaces
- when using the tabular format please allot a new cell to each piece of data.
- include the title of the table as well as the notes at the bottom of table inside the Table itself not in the body of the text.

Example:

Table 1.  Mean bodyweight and body size parameters of male and female Nigerian local Chickens

Measurement

Male

Female

Bodyweight, kg

1.4 9 ± 0.43a

1.13 ± 0.29 a

Body length, cm

41.96 ± 4.60 a

37.22 ± 3.44 a

Body girth, cm

28.83 ± 3.35 a

26.49 ± 2.09 a

Shank length, cm

10.79 ± 1.23a

8.90 ± 1.13b

ab means in the same row for each parameter with different superscripts are significantly different (p <0.05)


References:

In the text, do not put a ‘coma’ between the name and the date. Do not put a ‘dot’ after ‘et al’.

Example: (Gueye et al 1998)

They should be set up with minimum punctuation but maximum detail of the actual citation. Abbreviations of journal titles should not be used. In the list of references, citations to "Livestock Research for Rural Development" should include the appropriate "URL" for the article. For example, for papers published prior to 2004, the citations are of the following format.

Guèye E F, Ndiaye A and Branckaert R D S 1998 Prediction of body weight on the basis of body measurements in mature indigenous chickens in Senegal; Livestock Research for Rural Development. (10) 3: http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd10/3/sene103.htm

Beginning in 2004, the format is changed to:

Cerón-Muñoz M F, Tonhati H, Costa C N, Rojas-Sarmiento D and Solarte Portilla C 2004 Variance heterogeneity for milk yield in Brazilian and Colombian Holstein herds. Livestock Research for Rural Development. Volume 16, Article #20 Retrieved June 1, 2004, from http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd16/4/cero16020.htm

Check that this URL is correct and functioning by clicking on it: it should lead you to the Web site.!

PLEASE:

- Use the Spell-Check tool in order to correct any spelling mistake, and

- Ensure that references in the text are in the reference list and vice versa.
An easy way to check this latter point is to print the reference list and then from the beginning of the text to use the "FIND" command and type "19" and then "20". This will locate all the references assuming you have cited correctly the source including the date.

Proof reading of papers:

A paper written for LRRD in "html" has a number of supporting files including the "style" of headings and the images of graphs and photos. This creates some difficulties for editors and authors for the final "proof-reading" of the papers when these are sent by E-mail,  as the editors have to ensure that the supporting files are attached along with the paper; and the author, when she / he receives the paper,  has to put all the files in the same folder to be sure that when the paper is opened it will appear complete on the screen.  To avoid these inconveniences, each paper as it is edited is being made available as a provisional "url" which is communicated to authors when the final version of their paper is ready in html format. Authors can then check the paper for possible errors or last minute corrections and inform the editors accordingly. Queries on the proofs made by the editors are indicated in "red" (suggested rejection) or "blue" (suggested additions or changes).

Authors sending corrections to the proofs should send an email to the Chief Editor in the following format:

Do not send a copy of the whole paper as this would require the editors repeating the whole process of conversion to HTML format, which can be quite time-consuming.

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