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•1.      It is a new and original work representing a true contribution of us/me to the scientific knowledge. It has not been published or communicated previously to any journal (s). The title reflects the manuscript content, according to the objectives and the results obtained.

•2.      The abstract is well written, includes an introductory sentence, describes objectives, treatments, and gives numerical results and main conclusions.

•3.      Key words: maximum six, not repeated from the title. The introduction is informative, putting the research subject in perspective, cites current and relevant references, establishes hypotheses and finally indicates research objectives. Material and Methods gives enough information to allow other researchers to reproduce the experiment. The experimental design and statistical analyses are appropriate. Results and Discussion is presented clearly and concisely, with appropriate support of tables, figures and pictures. Results are discussed according to published information. The conclusions are in accordance with the objectives and results obtained.

•4.      At first mention of plants, crops, insects, pathogens, etc., the scientific name and author are included after the common name in the abstract or text, tables and figures. 

•5.      All in-text references are included in Literature Cited and vice versa.  Proceedings references include event location and date, followed by publisher or organizing entity, city and country of publication.

•6.      Tables have self-explanatory titles; all abbreviations are explained as table footnotes. Tables indicate statistical analysis. Figures have a self-explanatory title and all abbreviations are defined in figure footnotes. They do not repeat table information.

•7.      If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, you warrant that you have been authorised by all co-authors to sign this agreement on behalf. 

•8.      This agreement may only be amended by a document signed by both of us.