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Author Guidelines

Banko Janakari is a refereed journal. Articles, short notes, book reviews, news items, or letters to the editors may be submitted to Banko Janakari. Articles, etc. are subjected to change and necessary corrections. They are accepted on the understanding that the editor may shorten or alter them in an appropriate way. In the case of scientific articles authors will be consulted as far as possible depending on the difficulties of communication. Please state whether an article, in any way related to the one submitted to Banko Janakari, has already been submitted to another publisher and has been accepted or is awaiting a decision, or if article submitted relates to work that has been commissioned by any government or other organisation, or done in any connection with a course of study at a university or other institution.

Articles should be of interest to the broad categories of forestry professionals in general and be understandable to non-specialist also. Articles should be written in plain and concise language and jargons should be avoided. Technical terms that may be unfamiliar to readers should be defined when they appear for the first time. Footnotes should be avoided as far as possible. Manuscript should be in English, typed in double space and submitted in duplicate. However, manuscripts in electronic format, either on diskette or as e-mail attachment is preferred to hard copies. The length of the manuscript should be between 3000 and 4000 words for longer articles and 1000 and 2000 for short notes. However, shorter or longer articles may be considered in certain cases. Articles should follow the journal’s format: a) Abstract b) Introduction/Background c) Materials and Methods d) Results and Discussion e) Conclusion and f) References.

The first page of the article should provide the full name, title and complete address of the author(s) including e-mail address. Subsequent pages should be numbered sequentially. The article should commence with a concise and informative abstract in one paragraph without reference to text or figures. It should be within 250 words. The abstract should follow four to five keywords.

Authors are requested to provide supporting illustrative materials (Tables, graphs, maps and drawings) with manuscripts. Such materials must be numbered and supplied on separate sheet. Photographs should be black and white (preferably glossy prints from black and white negative; alternatively the negative may be sent-they will be returned). All measurements should be given in the metric system. Exchange rate of Nepalese Rupees with US dollars is a must where monetary figures are supplied. All the tables more than half of A4 size paper and those other than results should be kept as annexes.

References should be given at the end of the article on separate sheet of paper. Reference cited in the text must be listed alphabetically. References used in the text should indicate the name of the author(s) and date of publication at appropriate points (e.g. Sarkeala, 1995; Dennis et al., 2001), with the full reference given in a separate list at the end of the article. The term et al. should be used in the text when there are three or more authors. However, complete list of the authors should be named in references. For the convenience of authors, some examples of citation from different publications are given below:

Journal articles
Sarkeala, J. 1995. Use of satellite imagery in preparing a national forest inventory for Nepal. Banko Janakari 5(2): 64-68.
Dennis, R.; Hoffman, A.; Applegate, G.; Von Gemmingen, G. and Kartawinata, K. 2001. Large-scale fire: creator and destroyer of secondary forests in Western Indonesia. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 13 (4): 786-799.

Books
Draper, N. R. and Smith, H. 1981. Applied Regression Analysis. 2nd edition. Wiley and Sons, New York.

Edited books (Proceedings)
Tsuchida, K. 1983. Grassland vegetation and succession in eastern Nepal. In Structure and Dynamics of Vegetation in Eastern Nepal (ed) Numata, M. Chiba University, Japan, 47-87.

Reports
EPC. 1993. Nepal Environment Policy and Action Plan: Integrating Environment and Development. Environment Protection Council, HMG Nepal, 87p.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
 

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Banko Janakari ISSN: 1016-0582

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