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American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
This
interdisciplinary, refereed journal is designed to foster
the identification and discussion of agricultural safety and
health issues.
Your
manuscript should meet all of the following requirements:
- The
material represents original, useful contributions to the
agricultural safety and health literature.
- The
scope, purpose, and summary or conclusions must be stated
in an objective, well-organized manner.
- The
article must emphasize aspects of safety and health relating
to agriculture, or relate agricultural safety and health
to other public, health or occupational fields, issues,
or concerns.
- The
information must be organized in a way that allows easy
adaptation and use by others. The scope, purpose, and summary
must be clearly stated.
Your
manuscript should also contain at least one of the following
elements:
- Original
research data and analyses.
- Results
of practical experiences, tests, or trials.
- Critical
review, synthesis, or evaluation of existing information.
- Scientifically
based discussion or proposal for advancing agricultural
safety and health.
Units
of measure should be expressed in SI (International System of
Units) if the subject matter requires their use in articles
published in the Journal for Agricultural Safety and Health.
ASAE EP285.7 (ASAE Standards, 41st Ed.) lists terms,
symbols, and methods for conversion from customary units.
A
completed Manuscript Submission Form and Copyright Transfer
should accompany one original and four single-sided, double-spaced
copies of your manuscript including original illustrations.
Do not include an electronic version of your manuscript until
the review process has been completed and your manuscript has
been accepted for final publication.
ASAE
prefers the submission of electronic manuscripts.
Submit
your manuscript in electronic form after the editor indicates
that the manuscript has been accepted for final publication.
The electronic manuscript must correspond exactly to the final
printed copy when both are submitted to ASAE for final publication.
The
preferred storage medium is a 5.25 in. or 3.5 in. disk in
either a MAC- or DOS-based format. The preferred format for
submitting tables and figures is PICT; TIFF and EPS files
are also acceptable. Please label the disk with the manuscript
number (as assigned by ASAE), title, author(s), and the operating
system and software (including version numbers) used in producing
the manuscript, equations, tables, and figures.
All
manuscripts must be reviewed by a minimum of three technically
qualified reviewers. The steps in the review process are as
follows:
- The
author submits five, clean, single-sided, double-spaced
copies of the manuscript to the ASAE manuscript coordinator.
Authors must submit a completed Manuscript Submission Form
and Copyright Transfer at this time. The manuscript must
be reviewed by the author:s organization prior to submission.
Glossy prints of illustrations or original ink or laser
printed drawings are also submitted.
- The
manuscript coordinator assigns a manuscript number and four
copies are sent to the editor.
- The
editor reviews the manuscript for relatedness to scope,
criteria, etc.
- The
editor sends four copies of the manuscript to one editorial
board member.
- The
editorial board member has the option of:
- peer-reviewing
the manuscript and sending it out for two additional
technical reviews.
- sending
the manuscript out for three technical reviews.
- All
reviewers return comments and recommendations along with
their copy of the manuscript directly to the editor.
- If
the manuscript is:
- accepted
with only minor suggestions, the editor forwards final
recommendations and manuscript to ASAE and notifies
author of acceptance.
- accepted
only with major revisions or rewrite, the editor sends
comments, suggestions, and the manuscript back to the
author for revisions. The author considers the comments
and suggestions, makes necessary revisions, and returns
the manuscript to the editor. If the revisions are satisfactory,
the editor forwards the final recommendation and the
manuscript to ASAE. The editor has the option to repeat
steps 4, 5, 6, and 7.
- rejected,
the editor returns the manuscript to the author, along
with the reasons for rejection.
- The
manuscript coordinator sends the galley proof to the author
for final approval.
- The
author returns the galley proof to ASAE.
They
must be consistent with the purpose of ASAE as set forth in
its Constitution and shall not contain purely speculative matter.
However, scientific evidence can be used to challenge current
ideas or propose new ones that will encourage progress and discussion.
Published material shall be free from evident commercialism
or advancement of any private interest, and shall neither obscure
proper names required for an understanding of the subject matter,
nor contain material that can be used to imply Society endorsement
of a product, service, etc. Published material shall be free
from personalities either complimentary or derogatory.
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This
document was extracted from the Journal of Ag Safety and Health
(Volume 1, Number 1, February 1995).
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