NOTES TO AUTHORS
1- Research papers submitted for publication in the Egyptian Journal of Animal Production (Egypt. J. Anim. Prod. [EJAP]) must be based on original scientific research work, not submitted for publication, as a whole or in part, elsewhere.
2- Authors need not to be members of ESAP.
3- Manuscripts are submitted to the ESAP by Email (esap1961@gmail.com) or to home page (https://ejap.journals.ekb.eg).
4- Along with manuscripts the contributor has to hand over a statement signed by all authors (in some conditions, the first author) indicating their agreement on the contents and form of the manuscript.
5- The manuscripts must follow to the style and format of EJAP, please consult a recent issue. The following are the main features:
5-1. Manuscripts should be typed in double space with lines numbered, in each page starting by 1.
5-2. Assign serial numbers to pages in the order; text, references, tables, figures and Arabic summary. There are no fixed sections except references and Arabic summary.
5-3. Capitalize the letters of the major words in both the article's title and the sections titles, e.g. MATERIAL AND METHODS.
5-4. Sub-titles are written in italics with only the first letter of the first word in capital.
5-5. Within the text keeps the following formats: Abbreviations of the Journal of Animal Science (U.S.A) are adopted in EJAP. Any other abbreviations must be defined. Notice that a period (dot) (.) is put after the abbreviation.
5-6. Enumerations zero to ten are written in letters, e.g. zero, one, two ...... etc. Values greater than ten or that followed by abbreviated units are written in Arabic numerals. e.g. 11 animals, 49 wk.
5-7. Referring to authors is shown in name for single or double followed by year, e.g. Fukui 1990, Anders and Cline 1989. In case of three or more authors the name of the first author only is mentioned followed by et al., e.g. Zinn et al. 1989.
5-8. Tables, figures and plates are referred to by capital first letter T,F and P.
5-9. In the references section, each reference is shown in the following succession; name of author(s), year, title and editing authority, plus publishing Co. in case of books and symposia. In case of periodicals the volume no. is followed by the number of the first page of the article, if the reference is a book or symposium the pages of the article referred to are shown as pp. 12-23, or the chapter no. stated. Italicize (lined in the manuscript) the periodical name (e.g. J. Anim. Sci.), in case of books the first letter of each main word of the title is capital.
5-10. Tables must be legible, self explained and with suitable size. Avoid, as possible, tables which can be included only in horizontal direction or in more than on page (the EJAP page size is about 40 lines by about 53 spaces/ line. The table heading is written as: Table 2. Means of.... Capitalize the first letter of the first word in each column heading. Footnotes are referred to by numbers 1, 2.. if the table is not including numbers or otherwise by letters a, b, c... The table must be of good quality typing since it is included in the issue by photocopy.
5-11. Plates either black and white or colored must show fine resolution.
6- Each article will be peer-reviewed by two experts (internal and external reviewer) and forwarded to the author to consider the comments of the referees in case of acceptance for publication.
