AUTHORS AGREEMENT FORM

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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). We have carefully checked for plagiarism.

2.  The Title reflects the manuscript content, according to the objectives and the results obtained.

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.

5.  A Running title has been provided

6.  Material and Methods give enough information to allow other researchers to reproduce the experiment. The experimental design and statistical analyses are appropriate. 

7.  Results and Discussion  are presented clearly and concisely, with appropriate support of tables, figures and pictures. Results are discussed according to published information. 

8.  The Conclusions are in accordance with the objectives and results obtained.

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

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

11.Tables have self-explanatory titles; all abbreviations are explained as table footnotes. Tables indicate statistical analysis. 

12. Figures have self-explanatory titles and all abbreviations are defined in figure footnotes. Figures do not repeat table information. Figures are provided in TIFF format. 

13. If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signing author warrants that you have been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on behalf.

14. This agreement may only be amended by a document signed by all authors.

15. I/We agreed to provide all copyright including re-copyright to the Journal of Biopesticides

17. We agree to pay the page charge for our manuscript, when it is accepted for publication, as per the norms of the journal