FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

File Format

New submissions and re-submissions of revised manuscripts must be in PDF, Word Document, or RTF format. No other formats will be accepted.

Authors’ Identification and Title Page

To protect their anonymity in the review process AUTHORS SHOULD NOT IDENTIFY THEMSELVES ON THE TITLE PAGE OR IN ANY HEADERS. A SEPARATE TITLE PAGE MUST BE SENT AS AN ATTACHMENT TO THE EDITORS via the online submission management system and should include: (a) title; (b) author(s) names; and (c) name, address, phone and fax numbers, and email address of the author serving as the contact person.

Text Preparation

Double-space all material - including footnotes, references, and tables. Use 1-inch margins and 12-point Times Roman or a similar font. When formatted accordingly to these guidelines the main text (excluding title page, abstract and references) should be no more than 10 pages in length. Use appendices for supplementary text, tables, figures, or proofs in order to keep the manuscript concise. When an article is published, these appendices will be posted as separate Online Supplementary Materials, but during review please append all such appendices to the manuscript itself to facilitate review by reviewers.

Please assure that at least one sentence of text occurs between any two headings (in particular, a section heading should be followed by at least some text preceding any subsection heading). Align left all headings and subheadings. Provide short headings for each section and subsection. Do not number sections or subsections. Section headings are denoted in bold and subsection headings, in italics. Do not indent the first paragraph after any heading. Do not use a heading prior to the first paragraph of the article (e.g., no heading for “introduction”), and do not indent the first paragraph of the article. Follow American Psychology Association (APA) Style, and any recent issues of the JAHR for style. NOTE: When referring to your paper, use the word "article."

Manuscripts reporting the results of experiments or surveys conducted by the authors must include a copy of the experimental instructions or survey instrument as an appendix to be used by the Journal referees. Please ensure these research instruments do not identify the researchers or authors by name or institution.

Style

Please follow the APA, 6th ed., 2nd printing

Data and Documentation

Data sources should be indicated clearly in the article. Upon acceptance and in keeping with evolving policies at other impactful academic journals, authors are expected to submit their datasets and associated documentation (perhaps in a readme file), for readers to download from the JAHR website. Authors are also expected to provide whatever other material is needed to ensure that their results can be replicated (this might include code or pseudo-code used in estimation). Authors are encouraged to comply with all of this policy, but the editors would prefer partial compliance over non-compliance. The submitted files will be accessible as clickable links to the online version of the published paper. It is understood that in cases where the data are proprietary or confidential authors cannot fully satisfy this policy. Such cases should be brought to the attention of the editor at the time of initial submission.

Documentation of Research Involving Human Subjects

For all submitted manuscripts involving human subjects research conducted by one or more of the authors, the authors must communicate the following to the editors before the manuscript can be reviewed. (1) The authors have obtained approval from all appropriate Institutional Review Boards or equivalent institutional oversight authorities and (2) If the protocol involves deception of human subjects, document the extent and nature of deception involved and the research justification for inclusion of the deception. The handling editor may return manuscripts in which the deception is deemed unwarranted or excessive given the research justification, even if the protocol was approved by all appropriate Institutional Review Boards.

Disclosure Statement

Each author of a manuscript is required to submit a disclosure statement describing the sources of financial support the author has received. The form for the disclosure statement can be downloaded here. If the paper involves several coauthors, each coauthor is required to submit a separate disclosure statement. The disclosure statement must be included even if the authors have nothing to disclose; this fact should be explicitly stated. Manuscripts submitted without the required disclosure forms will be returned to the authors. In order to preserve the double-blind review system, the disclosure statement will not be available to referees.

Mathematical Notation

Use only essential mathematical notation. Avoid using the same character for both superscripts and subscripts or using capital letters for such, and whenever possible avoid overbars, tildes, carets, and other modifications of standard type. Asterisks, primes, and small English letter superscripts are suitable.

Math Typesetting

Use standard type to the maximum extent possible (for example, use Symbol font for Greek characters in simple notation). Refrain from use of embellished letters (dots, bars, tildes, carets). Run equations into text if at all possible (rather than displaying). Simplify notation to avoid costly typesetting. All displayed equations (i.e., equations not run into regular text) should be numbered consecutively, placed in parentheses (not square brackets) and left-justified on the same line as the equal or inequality sign.

Footnotes to Text

Number footnotes consecutively throughout the article, not page by page. Type all footnotes, double-spaced, on a separate page following the article. Footnotes should be only explanatory and not for citations or for directing the reader to a particular work. Such information can be incorporated into the text. (Note: for accepted manuscripts, a leading unnumbered footnote providing authors’ affiliations and acknowledgements will be taken from the title page.)

References and Citations

Place References, alphabetized by author, in a list at the end of the paper, double spaced(without extra blank lines between references). Provide issue number whenever possible and always for journals that do not number pages sequentially through complete volumes. Format reference with hanging indentation (first line flush left, second and subsequent lines indented). Only cited works may be included in the reference list. All citations should appear in the text and contain the authors name and year, with page numbers when necessary; text citations should omit any comma or other punctuation between the author name and the year of publication. Citations can be inserted parenthetically, e.g. (Doe 1998, p. 5). If the author’s name is used as part of the sentence, include year of publication parenthetically, with page numbers if necessary; e.g., Doe, Smith and Jones (2002) show that . . . . . Use et al. only with four or more authors. For text citations listing more than one source, separate sources by a semi-colon: (Doe 1998; Smith and Jones 2000; Smith, Jones, and Erp 2003; Thomas et al. 2004). Do not use et al. in the reference section.

Tables and Figures

Place each table and figure on a separate page at the end of the paper. Double-space all material and omit vertical rules in tables. Each table and figure must have a legend, i.e., title together with any narrative that the reader might find useful in understanding the content. Place legends for tables at the top of the table. Place legends for figures at the bottom of the figure. Table and figure titles should be fully descriptive, flush left, and bold. Omit a period at the end of the legend. For table legend, capitalize the first letter in each major word (but not prepositions that carry little information, as ‘in’, ‘and’, etc.). For figure legend, capitalize only the first letter of the first word together with proper nouns and adjectives. Examples:

Table 1. Summary Statistics for Murray State University Hemp Field Trial, 2014

Figure 1. US national average corn yields (bu/acre), 1986-2018

In-text Citation Style of Table or Figure

Use lowercase for the words "table" and "figure" in the text unless, of course, they appear at the beginning of a sentence.

Footnotes to Tables

Only include a footnote when absolutely necessary, otherwise refrain and place its content in the text. Use lower case English letters to attach footnotes to specific items within the table, and place the footnotes below the bottom line of the table in (un-indented) paragraph form. For general explanatory notes, use the heading “Note:” and continue on the same line with the first word of the note, in paragraph form. The "Note:"" paragraph may define the use of asterisk (e.g., * or **) to denote statistical significance levels. For example, say "Asterisk (*) and double asterisk (**) denote variables significant at 5% and 10% respectively." See a recent issue after January 2006 of the journal for other examples.

Footnotes to Figures

Normally figures do not carry footnotes to specific items within the figure. General explanatory information may be included in a paragraph bearing the heading of "Note:" and placed below the figure legend. See a recent issue of the journal for examples.

Figure Legends

Place legends for figures at the bottom of the figure, flush left, and bold. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word. Example:

Figure 1. US national average corn yields (bu/acre), 1986-2018

Color Figures

Authors will be queried at the time of production for color charge cost approval. If, at the time of submission, the author knows that color online only is the preferred publication method, two figure files should be submitted: the black and white version should be labeled for print and the color version should be labeled online in the figure file name.

Supplementary Data/Appendices

The JAHR posts supplementary appendix material for published articles on the Murray State University Digital Commons (MSUDC) website with the links to the supplementary material appearing adjacent to the link for the article to make availability to readers convenient and reliable. While authors may still maintain their own web-based supplements, any materials to which a published article would have previously referred as "available on request" will be posted online with a link next to the published article. Thus the article to be published in the JAHR should cite the online appendix rather than simply telling readers that supplementary materials are available upon request.

PRE-PUBLICATION POLICY

The Journal of Agricultural Hemp Research does not accept papers that have been previously published elsewhere with the exception of working papers series. The Journal’s policy regarding working paper series is:

1. Pre-publication in working paper series is allowed where submission to the working paper series is prior to acceptance by the Journal.

2. The working paper version may remain online after publication in the Journal.

3. The working paper version should NOT be updated after acceptance by the Journal.

4. Authors are requested to append the appropriate citation to the working paper version on acceptance by the Journal (if the working paper series allows this).

Submission of a paper will be held to imply that a) the material in the manuscript has not been published, is not being published or considered for publication elsewhere, and will not be submitted for publication elsewhere unless rejected by the journal editor or withdrawn by the author(s); b) the material in the manuscript, so far as the author(s) knows, does not infringe upon other published material covered by copyright; c) the author’s (s') employer, if any, either does not assert an ownership interest in the manuscript or is willing to convey such interest to the Murray State University Center for Agricultural Hemp ("the Center"); and d) submission of the manuscript gives the Center exclusive right to publish, to copyright, and to allow or deny reproduction of it, in whole or in part. If the applicability of point a) is unclear, the author(s) must provide an explanation in the cover letter.

LICENSE TO PUBLISH

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Digital Commons authors will be invited to complete an online copyright license to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Murray State University's Digital Commons ("MSUDC") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify MSUDC immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication, MSUDC will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that MSUDC does not retain copies of rejected articles.

OPEN ACCESS

The JAHR provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. In order to lower barriers to publication for authors, JAHR does not charge submission or any other form of author fees.