Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality scholarly manuscripts to Journal of Agro Complex Development Society. Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear contribution to integrated agricultural systems, agroecology, sustainable agriculture, agroindustry, food systems, agribusiness, or rural development and must comply with the journal's scientific, ethical, editorial, and manuscript preparation requirements.
Manuscripts submitted to the journal must present original scholarly work that has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
Submissions should demonstrate a clear contribution within one or more of the journal's principal areas: Integrated Crop and Livestock Systems, Agroecology, Climate and Sustainable Agriculture, Agroindustry, Food Systems and Agricultural Innovation, or Rural Economy, Agribusiness and Agrocomplex Development.
Interdisciplinary studies may be considered when they demonstrate a clear connection to integrated agricultural systems, agrocomplex development, food systems, agricultural innovation, or sustainable rural transformation.
The journal primarily considers:
The journal applies a double-anonymous peer review process. Manuscripts submitted for review must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, institutional identifiers, or other information that directly identifies the authors.
Full author names, affiliations, countries, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers should be entered separately in the OJS metadata.
Manuscripts should be submitted in an editable word-processing format and prepared according to the official journal manuscript template where provided.
Original research articles should generally include:
The title should be concise, specific, scientifically informative, and accurately reflect the agricultural system, commodity, technology, population, environment, or socioeconomic issue investigated.
Complete author information must be entered through OJS, including full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID identifier where available.
The abstract should normally contain approximately 150–250 words and summarize the background, objective, methodology, principal findings, and main conclusion of the study.
Authors should provide 3–6 keywords representing the principal agricultural system, commodity, technology, method, environment, or socioeconomic issue addressed in the manuscript.
The Introduction should establish the scientific, technological, environmental, or socioeconomic context of the study, explain the research problem, summarize relevant evidence, identify the research gap, state the objective or hypothesis, and clearly explain the novelty and significance of the work.
Authors should critically engage with relevant national and international scientific literature rather than presenting previous studies merely as a descriptive list.
The scientific background should explain relevant biological, ecological, technological, economic, institutional, or social mechanisms where appropriate.
The literature should clearly establish the knowledge gap and demonstrate how the current study contributes to agricultural or agrocomplex research.
The Methods section should provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand, evaluate, and where appropriate reproduce the research procedures.
Authors should describe the study design, location or research setting, sampling procedure, experimental design, treatments, variables, materials, instruments, data collection, analytical procedures, and statistical methods where applicable.
Field and experimental studies should report relevant environmental, soil, crop, livestock, climatic, management, or production conditions necessary to interpret the results.
Socioeconomic and agribusiness studies should clearly describe respondents or units of analysis, sampling methods, variables, measurement procedures, analytical models, and validity or robustness procedures where appropriate.
Results should be presented clearly, logically, and objectively and should correspond directly to the research objectives, questions, or hypotheses.
Quantitative findings should include appropriate statistical indicators, measures of variation, effect estimates, confidence intervals, or significance tests where relevant.
The Discussion should interpret the findings in relation to relevant scientific literature, mechanisms, agricultural practices, technological applications, environmental sustainability, economic implications, or rural development where appropriate.
Authors should clearly explain how the findings advance existing knowledge rather than simply restating the results.
The Conclusion should directly reflect the principal findings and clearly state their scientific, technological, environmental, economic, policy, or practical significance.
Recommendations should be supported by the evidence generated by the study and should avoid overly general claims.
Study limitations and directions for future research may also be included.
Authors should provide the following information where applicable:
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, authenticity, originality, ethical compliance, and scientific interpretation of all content submitted to the journal.
Tables and figures should be relevant, clearly presented, appropriately numbered, and referred to in the manuscript text.
Units, abbreviations, statistical indicators, treatment codes, sample sizes, and explanatory notes should be clearly defined.
Photographs, microscopy images, maps, satellite images, or other visual data should not be manipulated in a manner that alters or misrepresents their scientific meaning.
Authors should avoid unnecessary duplication of the same data in text, tables, and figures.
References should be relevant, scientifically credible, and sufficient to establish the current state of knowledge and scientific context of the manuscript.
Authors are encouraged to engage with recent peer-reviewed international literature together with important foundational sources where scientifically appropriate.
Unnecessary self-citation, citation exchange, coercive citation, or other forms of citation manipulation should be avoided.
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) should be provided whenever available, and authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy of all references.
Reference formatting should follow the style specified in the official journal manuscript template.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening for relevance to the journal's scope, originality, scholarly contribution, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and adherence to submission requirements.
Manuscripts that successfully pass initial screening may proceed to double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Authors receiving a revision decision should carefully address all reviewer and editor comments and provide a clear point-by-point response describing the revisions made.
Submission of a revised manuscript does not guarantee acceptance. Final publication decisions remain the responsibility of the editorial team.
Following formal acceptance, manuscripts may undergo copyediting, metadata verification, reference checking, layout preparation, proofreading, and other production procedures before publication.
Any applicable Article Processing Charge is governed by the Journal Policies and is independent of peer-review and editorial decision-making.
Authors may be asked to review publication proofs before final publication. Published articles are made openly accessible in accordance with the journal's Open Access and CC BY 4.0 policies.
