Manuscript preparation
Language: English
Manuscript types: Original research and reviews

Manuscript format
Writing rules
1. Selcuk Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences publishes original research and compilations in English on agriculture and food science.
2. If the original research articles are made from the master's and doctoral thesis, they should not be mentioned as a footnote on the article template.
3. The article submitted for publication is taken into consideration by the Journal Editorial Board by the publication principles. The Journal Editorial Board has the right to decide that articles unsuitable for the journal will be returned to the author(s) without being sent to the reviewers. In addition, articles that do not comply with the spelling rules or whose language of expression is inadequate will be returned to the author (s) for correction.
4. The evaluated article is approved by the journal's editorial board for preliminary evaluation. The editorial board can refuse the article if it violates the journal's publication rules. Articles that meet the basic requirements are sent to at least two referees who are experts in a particular discipline. A list of corrections/opinions of the articles passed through the peer review is submitted to the author. The corresponding author(s) should upload the corrected and revised article to the system within 30 days. Submissions after this time will not be accepted. Then, the board of editors decides (positive or negative) for the article's publication. Any correction or deletion of the articles accepted for publication doesn't make. The author (s) is responsible for the contents of the published articles.
5. The Editorial Board decides whether the manuscript is suitable for publication based on the reviewer's comments and the sufficiency of revisions made by the author/s.
6. Articles to be published should not have been previously published, and broadcast rights should not be given. In addition, the author (s) must comply with the international-national "Scientific Research and Publication Code of Ethics". The journal is not responsible for these issues.
7. Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal using the corresponding author's online submission system. All submissions should include the following documents.
8. After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, i.e., after referee-recommended revisions are complete, the author will not be permitted to change the manuscript, authors, and Author order.
9. For research in all branches of science that requires ethics committee approval (ethics committee approval should be obtained; this approval should be stated and documented in the article).
10. In research requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) is in the method section and on one of the first/last pages of the article. In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.
11. The responsibilities of papers in the journal belong to the author/s.

Image Format
Authors must use "Cover Letter" and "Template Paper" from the Journal web page.
In general, manuscripts submitted to the journal should be in the following order: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussions, Conclusions, Acknowledgements (if needed), and References.

Manuscript Template
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/28201 

Cover Letter
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/28210

ORCID No: ORCID numbers should be written in the article template for each author in the article. Authors who do not have an ORCID number can obtain one by clicking the link: https://orcid.org/register

Title: The title of the manuscript should be short and illustrative.
Author's names and surnames should appear in complete form, not as short form. The corresponding author should be denoted by an asterisk mark. Address with e-mail of the corresponding author to whom all correspondence may be sent should be given.

Abstract: Abstracts should provide clear information about the research and the results obtained and should not exceed 300 words.
Highlights: Insert 2-4 highlights no longer than 85 characters.

Keywords: The author should provide a maximum of 6 keywords in alphabetical order, separated with semicolons, not included in the title. The scientific or systematic names of plants and fungi should be italicized. eg. Triticum aestivum; in vitro; in vivo.

Abbreviations / Symbols: Symbols are given by using a manuscript template. Define all symbols and abbreviations the first time they are used. Abbreviations cannot be used in the manuscript title. Symbols should be SI units.

Introduction: This section should explain the problem and previous studies, especially the most recent publications. The objectives of the study should be given in this section.

Materials and Methods: This section should explain all the materials and analytical and statistical methods and procedures.

Results and Discussions: The data and information should be presented using tables or figures in this section. The Editorial Board can decline the manuscript if unsuitable statistical analysis selection or incorrect statistical procedures are used. The findings should be discussed, but the author should be aware of unnecessary repetitions. Findings should be compared with other previous study literature, and reasons for similarities or differences should be defined.

Headings: Headings should be written in capital letters and bold. Subheadings should be written in lowercase letters; sub-subheadings should be written in lowercase letters and italics.

Acknowledgments: People, grants, and funds who contributed to the article should be stated in this section.

Author Contributions: A short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided for research articles with several authors. The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; methodology, X.X.; software, X.X.; validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; formal analysis, X.X.; investigation, X.X.; resources, X.X.; data curation, X.X.; writing—original draft preparation, X.X.; writing—review and editing, X.X.; visualization, X.X.; supervision, X.X.; project administration, X.X.; funding acquisition, Y.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.” Please turn to the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation. Authorship must be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work reported.

Funding: Please add: “This research received no external funding " or  " This research was funded by NAME OF FUNDER, grant number XXX” and “The APC was funded by XXX”. Check carefully that the details are accurate and use the standard spelling of funding agency names at https://search.crossref.org/funding. Any errors may affect your future funding.

Data Availability Statement: This section provides details regarding where data supporting reported results can be found, including links to publicly archived datasets analyzed or generated during the study. Please refer to the suggested Data Availability Statements in the “SJAFS Research Data Policies” section at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/selcukjafsci/policy. You might exclude this statement if the study did not report any data.

Acknowledgments: In this section, you can acknowledge any support not covered by the author's contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).

Conflicts of Interest: Declare conflicts of interest or state, “The authors declare no conflict of interest.” Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. Any role of the funders in the study's design, in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results”.

Ethics declarations
Ethics approval: No approval from the research ethics committee was required to accomplish the goals of this study. However, the use of all the animals was with the consent of the participating farmers. Ethical approval for animals, patients, or participants was given by the Faculty of xxxxxxxxxx ethical committee (No:2023/xxx).
Publisher's note: Xxxxxxxxxx journal remains neutral about jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
ORCID No: ORCID numbers should be written in the article template for each author in the article. Authors who do not have an ORCID number can obtain it by clicking the link https://orcid.org/register.

Tables and Figures: All illustrations, such as photographs, drawings, graphs, etc., must be labeled “Figure.” The number in order of mention in the text and table should be in text form, not shown as an image. It should be presented in table form. Tables and figures, including the caption, title, column heads, and footnotes, must not exceed 16 × 20 cm and should be no smaller than 8 cm in width. Author/s must not duplicate information that is already presented in the figures. Figures and tables should be in good resolution to get high-quality press. Photos contributing study results must have 600 dpi resolutions in 'jpg' format. Author/s must prefer the grey or black font instead of the color. No vertical lines are allowed in tables, which must be prepared using the "Paper Template". All tables and figures must be cited in the text. They must be numbered consecutively as they are referred to in the text. (Table 1 and Figure 1). Captions of tables and figures must have clear and concise descriptions. Captions of tables and figures, words through the tables or figures, and dip not of the tables or figures must be font sizes of 10, 9, and 8 Times New Roman, respectively. Horizontal and vertical lines must not be included in the figures. However, small letters can be used if statistical comparisons are made. If tables and figures have abbreviations, they should be described at the bottom of the tables and figures.

Units: SI (System International Units) must be used. For decimals, full stop or point must be used instead of commas (e.g., 1.25 instead of 1,25). In units, '/ ' must not be used, and there must be one free space between units (e.g., m s-1 must be used instead of m/s; J s-1 must be used instead of J/s; kg m s-2 must be used instead of kg m/s2). There must be one free space between the number and symbol (e.g., 4 kg N ha-1, 3 kg m-1 s-2, 20 N m, 1000 s-1, 100 kPa, 22 °C). There is a particular case for degree, minute, and second (°, ', and '') symbols. Those symbols must be used after the number (e.g., 10°, 45', 60"). The abbreviation of liter must be as 'L'. If the symbols are not at the end of the sentence, the full stop must not be used after the symbol.

References
Articles should be prepared according to the citation system of Selcuk Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences. In the field of science, APA 6 footnote or in-text system, whichever is commonly used, may be preferred. Links should be provided.
In the text, references should be cited by the author's surname and the year of publication, e.g. (Ceyhan 2003), (Ulker and Ceyhan 2008). If citations are made for author/s, only the year of the publication is placed through the brackets, e.g., Ceyhan (2003) or Ulker and Ceyhan (2008). For citations or references with three or more authors, “et al.” followed only the first author's surname [(Ceyhan et al. 2008) or Ceyhan et al. (2008)]. If there is more than one reference in the same year for the same author(s) then 'a, b' letters should be added in alphabetical order, e.g. (Ceyhan et al. 2008a). If there is more than one reference for the same author, a semi-colon is used after the year, e.g. (Ceyhan 2003; 2008; 2012). References cited within the text should be organized in the original language alphabetically (according to the initial author's surname) and in chronological order. The full name of the Journal, without abbreviation, should be written in italics. Abstracts published in proceedings are not cited in the text or in references. Author/s are fully responsible for incorrect citations in the text or references.

Journal articles:
Ceyhan E (2004). Effects of sowing dates on some yield components and yield of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars. Turkish Journal of Field Crops 9: 87-95.
Ceyhan E, Harmankaya M, Avci MA (2008a). Effects of sowing dates and cultivars on protein and mineral contents of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Asian Journal of Chemistry 20: 5601-5613.
Ceyhan E, Avci MA, Karadas S (2008b). Line x tester analysis in pea (Pisum sativum L.): Identification of superior parents for seed yield and its components. African Journal of Biotechnology, 7: 2810-281. Doi:

Books:
Akçin A (1998). Yemeklik Tane Baklagiller. Selçuk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları: 8, Ders Kitabı: 377, Konya.
Kempthorne O (1957). An Introduction to Genetic Statistics. Wiley and Sons, New York, USA. p.104.

Chapters in books:
Babaoğlu M, Yorgancılar M, Akbudak MA (2001). Doku kültürü: temel laboratuar teknikleri. (Editörler M. Babaoğlu, E. Gürel, S. Özcan), Bitki Biyoteknolojisi Cilt I Doku Kültürü ve Uygulamaları, S.Ü. Vakfı Yayınları, Konya, s. 1-35.
Eteve G (1985). Breeding for tolerance and winter hardiness in pea. In Hebblethwaite PD, Heath MC, Dawkins TCK (Eds), The pea Crop: A Basis for Improvement. Butterworths, London. UK, pp. 131-136.

Anonymous (Unknown Author/s):
TUİK (2012). Agricultural Statistics Summary. Turkish Statistical Institute, Publication No: 3877, Ankara. p.333.

From Internet:
FAO (2013). Production and trade statistics. http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-trade/en/ (access date: 02.10.2013).

Thesis:
Ceyhan E (2003). Bezelye ebeveyn ve melezlerinde bazı tarımsal özelliklerin ve kalıtımlarının çoklu dizi analiz metoduyla belirlenmesi. Doktora Tezi, Selcuk Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü (Basılmamış), Konya.
Ceyhan E (2003). Determination of some agricultural characters and their heredity through line x tester method in pea parents and crosses. PhD Thesis, Selcuk University (Unpublished), Turkey.

Conference Proceedings:
Ceyhan E, Kahraman A, Karadaş S, Avcı MA, Önder M (2011). Yemeklik bezelye (Pisum sativum L.) genotiplerinin Konya ekolojik koşullarında bazı tarımsal özelliklerinin belirlenmesi. Türkiye IX. Tarla Bitkileri Kongresi, 12 – 15 Eylül, Bursa, Cilt II: s. 659-664.
Devos P (1988). Nutritional value of lentils and chickpeas and changes during processing. In: Proceedings of Lentils for Everyone Symposium, 29-30 September 1988; Marmaris, Muğla, Turkey, pp. 174-196.

References must appear in the text (including citations in tables and legends) and be listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, to avoid typing mistakes and duplicate references. Where available, include the digital object identifier (DOI) for all references.

Final Checklist
This list is hoped to be useful during the final check of the prepared article before it is uploaded to the journal system.

Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors must check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.
 The submitted manuscript has not been previously published and has not been submitted to any journals for publication (detailed description in the author's guide).
 The article file is in the form of a Microsoft Word (2003 or higher) document file.
 The article preparation template was used. The article should be prepared as a double column.
 All authors' information is on the cover page.
 The abstract text does not exceed 300 words.
 Up to 6 keywords written.
 The length of the figures and tables is a maximum of 16x20 cm for a single-page layout and 8 cm for a double-column layout.
 Images were chosen in 600 dpi "jpg" format and color images instead of gray or black
 All tables and figures are numbered sequentially throughout the article
 References are provided in the text according to the author's guidelines.
 References are given in alphabetical order according to the author's descriptions
 Units are given in the text according to the author's instructions.
 All documents are prepared according to publication ethics rules.
 Make sure the following items are available:
1. Author information added
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Phone number
• ORCID number
2. All necessary files have been uploaded.
• Manuscript text
3. The article was "spelled" and "grammarly checked".
4. All references cited in the bibliography are quoted in the text and vice versa.

Submit Manuscript
The account of the study's corresponding author should be used in the applications. All correspondence regarding the application is forwarded to the responsible author by e-mail through the journal system.
When uploading the article file, ensure that it does not contain any elements that would reveal the author's identity due to the double-blind peer-review process.
Files You Need to Upload Separately:
Manuscript Full Text

Manuscript Uploading
The manuscript must be uploaded online through the link given by the corresponding author using the Selcuk Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences Manuscript Submission and Evaluation System. In the manuscript uploading part, the manuscript in pdf file format is uploaded in 'Application Upload'. In addition, the following files must be uploaded:
1. The manuscript in Word format (2003 or upper versions). Some descriptive information, such as author names, titles, addresses, and contact information (in Word format).
2. Word file having name-surname and institute and corresponding address of authors.
3. Ethics Committee Approval (if needed).

During the submission, the following commitment is received from the author in electronic form:
1. I am authorized/authorized by co-authors to submit this work to your journal.
2. The manuscript is original and has not been officially published in another peer-reviewed journal. It has not been evaluated by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or other third-party rights.
3. I/we agree that if the manuscript is editorially accepted for publication, it will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
4. Copyright and intellectual property rights of the author(s) or employer(s) of the author(s), if any, are reserved. The author(s) undertake(s) that the publisher is not responsible for any claims or lawsuits filed by third parties due to copyright infringement and that all responsibility belongs to them.
5. The author(s) undertake(s) that there is no criminal or illegal statement in the manuscript and that no unlawful materials and methods are used while conducting the research.