iInstructions for Contributors
Revised on March 15, 2019
1. Policy[2] Page Layout

Tropical Agriculture and Development (TAD) is an interna-Manuscripts should be typewritten on A4 size (210 by 297

tional research journal published by the Japanese Society formm) pages. Margins of at least 30 mm on all sides of each

Tropical Agriculture. TAD accepts original articles written inpage should be included. Times fonts (e.g., Times New Ro-

English that have not been previously published and that areman) should be used with 11-point type size, giving about 75

not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

letters to a line and 25 lines per page. Line numbers should

2. Scope

Page numbers are to be placed center-bottom.

be given in the left margin every ﬁve lines on every pages.
TAD publishes original research articles on tropical and subtropical agriculture, including social and natural science.

[3] Manuscript Arrangement

Articles are expected to offer new insights into tropical ag-Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order: Title

riculture.

and Running title, Authors’ names, Afﬁliated Institution andAddress, Abstract, Keywords, Main text (including Introduc-

3. Types of Articles
TAD accepts
1. Original articles (regular paper)tion, Materials and Methods, or Materials, Results and Discussion, References etc.), Tables/Figures/Photographs andCaptions. The main text should be started on a new page.

2. Original articles (short report)
3. Review articles

Title and Running title

4. Information articles

Titles should be concise and informative. Titles should be

5. Materials for research work

typed in bold font and the initial letters of every word except

Original articles (regular paper and short report) must beprepositions and conjunctions should be capitalized. Runningfrom original research and must contain substantial newtitles should not exceed 50 letters, and should not be in boldﬁndings that are coherently founded on rigorous scientiﬁcor capitals. The type of article should be designated at theand logical approaches. Short reports are compact original

top of the title page as shown below, on which the title andarticles for the quick publication of new ﬁndings. Review ar-

running title, authors with afﬁliated institutions, and e-mailticles are comprehensive surveys of the literature concern-address of the corresponding author should also be set out.

ing a particular ﬁeld or subject, and must include the author’soriginal viewpoint. Information articles are reports of ﬁeldAuthors

surveys designed to increase the understanding of the reality

Authors’ complete names should be presented in given-of tropical agriculture, or monographs focusing on a particu-

name-ﬁrst order. Surname will be in large capitals. The cor-lar issue in tropical agriculture, and providing valuable infor-

responding author should be indicated by a superscriptedmation. Materials for research work are papers introduc-asterisk “*” next to the surname.

ing important and valuable references, statistical data, andother materials useful for tropical agriculture.

Afﬁliation and Address

4. Manuscript Preparation - see the latest issue of TAD.

must be indicated, in this order, in italics.

The institution, address, zip code and country of each author[1] Number of Pages
The length of regular papers, review articles, information ar-

Abstract

ticles and materials should not exceed six printed pages. If

Abstracts for original articles (regular paper) should be with-papers exceed this limit, the author will be charged at costin 240 words. Abstracts can be attached for review articles,

for the extra pages (see 8. Submission Fees and Page Charg-

information articles, and materials for research works. Shortes). The maximum length of a short report is ﬁve printed

reports do not require abstracts.

pages, three pages of which are covered by the ordinary page
charge. A printed text page is approximately equivalent toKeywords

two draft pages prepared according to the instructions shownKeywords consist of 6 words or less for original articles (reg-in [2] Page Layout.

ular paper), review articles, information articles, and materials for research works, and 3 words or less for short reports.

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Initial letters should be capitalized, commas used to divide

must be arranged chronologically. For the references by thewords, and words arranged in alphabetical order. It is recom-same authors and published in the same year, the letters ‘a’,mended that words used in the title are avoided.

‘b’, etc. must be added following the year to distinguishthese from others in the main text. Non-English literature

Main text

must have the language speciﬁed in parentheses as follows:

Headlines of the main categories (Introduction, Materials(in Vietnamese with French summary). Accepted articles

and Methods, etc.) are to be shown in bold and centred.

that have not yet been published can be cited and must be

The headlines of secondary categries are to be in bold andnoted as “in press”. References should be listed as follows:

left-aligned. The headlines of third categories, if any, are tobe in italics and left-aligned.However, manuscripts do not[i] Periodicals

necessarily have to follow the Introduction, Materials andRichter, M., H. George, and G. W. Turner 2012. Effects

Methods, Results, and Discussion format. Scientiﬁc names ofof summer pruning on winter growth of atemoya cv.

animals and plants are to be indicated in italics according toJeffner. Jpn. J. Trop. Agr. 5: 233-238.

Latin nomenclature. Non-English terms are also to be written

Williams, A. L., C. Johnson, and J. Smith 2012. Traditionalin italics. The full names of chemicals should be spelled outagriculture in the Philippines: A progress report.

when the words are initially used, followed by abbreviations

Trop. Agr. Develop. 45: . (in press)

in parenthesis. Thereafter, abbreviations should be used. SI

Yamada, T., T. Endo, and I. W. Harper 2012a. Yield

units must be used in principle. Some other units can be usedcomponents of rain-fed paddy ﬁelds in Northeast

as follows,

Thailand. Hawaii Agr. Exp. St. Tech. Bull. 179: 1134-

Time: min, h, d, week(s), month(s), year(s)Angle: °, ′, ″1142.
Nguen, T. V. 2009. Effects of paclobutrazol in off-season ﬂower

Volume: L

induction of ‘Kho qua xanh’ durian. Proceedings of theMass: t

13th Symposium on Fruit Production in the Mekong

Area: a, ha

Delta. Hue University (Vietnam) Dec. 15-18, 2008.
pp.10-12. (in Vietnamese with French summary)Acknowledgements and Footnotes
Acknowledgements, if necessary, should be placed after the[ii] Books

Discussion. Financial support should be included in the Ac-

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

knowledgements. Footnotes can be added before the Refer-(FAO). 2009. Production Yearbook. Vol. 45. FAO

ences, listing abbreviations used in the main text in numeri-(Rome) p.120.

cal order.

Martin, J. P., E. L. Bernard, and R. T. Dubois 2010.
Productivity of root and tuber crops in tropical

References

wetland. In: Plants and People in Asia. (Moreau, W. C.

Literature citations in the text must be made by name(s) ofed.) Lutetia Academic Press (Paris) pp. 225-230.

author(s) and year. For references with two authors, identify

Morton, J. F. 1987. Mango. In: Fruits of Warm Climates.

both names using “and”; for those with three or more authors

Julia F. Morton (Miami) pp. 221-239.

use the name of the ﬁrst author followed by “et al.”, and whenmore than two references are cited together the references[iii] Web content

should be arranged chronologically as in the following ex-

World Health Organization (WHO) 2012. Chapter 1.

amples:Guideline for drinking-water quality. In: World...(Yamada, 2012).

Situation for Water Management. pp.5-12. [Online]

Yamada and Tanaka (2012) ....

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health.pdf

Yamada et al.,（2012）(browsed on May 15, 2012)...(Williams et al., 1996; Williams and Johnson, 2001; Williams, 2002; 2003).

For short reports, the titles of periodicals should not be

All references must be cited in the reference list according

written:to the examples below. References must be arranged in alphabetical order of the surnames of ﬁrst authors. Referencesby the same ﬁrst authors must be arranged in the alphabetical order of second authors. References by the same authors

Richter, M., H. George, and G. W. Turner 2012. Jpn. J.
Trop. Agr. 5: 233-238.
Williams, A. L., C. Johnson, and J. Smith 2012. Trop. Agr.
Develop. 45: . (in press)

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Yamada, T., T. Endo, and I. W. Harper 2012a. Hawaii Agr.
Exp. St. Tech. Bull. 179: 1134-1142.

be ordered and this editing fee will be imposed on the author (see 8. Submission Fees and Page Charges). After theNguen, T. V. 2009. Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on

acceptance of the manuscript, the Editor will request that theFruit Production in the Mekong Delta. Hue University

authors send the manuscript as digital data in an editable ver-(Vietnam) Dec. 15-18, 2008. pp.10-12. (in Vietnamesesion (such as MS word or Rich Text format for main text andwith French summary)

MS Excel or PowerPoint for tables and ﬁgures) with the invoice (E-2 form) for the printing process. Authors will receive

Tables, Figures, and Photographs

a copy of galley proofs. Authors are responsible for reading

Each table, ﬁgure, photograph, or series of photographs

the ﬁrst galley proofs for simple typo corrections. No major(plate) should be printed on a separate page and numberedchanges from the manuscript are allowed at the proof stage.

consecutively (e.g., Table 1; Fig. 2). The title of a table should
be written above the table with a full-stop, and that of a ﬁg-

8. Submission Fees and Page Charges

ure should be written under the ﬁgure with a full-stop. TopAuthors are requested to pay submission fees and page

horizontal line of tables should be double. Vertical lines

charges as follows:

should not be used in tables.Supplemental explanations canSubmission fees: 10,000 yen (No submission fee is required

be continued under tables and ﬁgures. In ﬁgures, scale lines

when the ﬁrst author or corresponding author is a memberof graph axis should be inside.Figures and photographs mustof the Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture).

be prepared ready for photographic printing.

Page charges: For original articles (full paper), review
articles, information articles, and materials for research

5. Manuscript Submission

works, 20,000 yen per article. For short reports, 10,000

Manuscripts saved in PDF format which is less than 3MByen.

must be sent by e-mail to the Managing Editor. The address

Extra page charges: 20,000 yen per page (see 4-[1] Number

is shown below. An invoice card (E-1 form) must accompany

of Pages).

the manuscript.

Color print charges: Color prints can be used at theE-mail address: jsta_edi@trop-agri.jp

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TAD Editorial Board

Reprint fees: Authors receive a free PDF ﬁle of the article
and can purchase reprints (10,000 yen for an initial 10Kagoshima University, Faculty of Agriculture

copies, and an additional 1,000 yen for every 10 further

Korimoto 1-21-24, Kagoshima, 890-0065 Japancopies).

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English editing: At cost (see 7. Process after Acceptance).
For manuscripts whose authors are all from, and working in,

6. Review Processdeveloping countries, submission fees and page charges are

When the Editorial Board receives a new manuscript, theexempted, and half of any extra page charges will be covered

Managing Editor will check it and send an e-mail to the corre-by the funds of the Society, when an article is evaluated as

sponding author to notify that the review process has started.

exceptionally outstanding by the Editorial Board. The otherAll articles are reviewed by more than two reviewers who are

actual expenses will be charged.

experts in the subject. The author will receive a review reportby e-mail with the decision of the Editor and reviewers’ com-9. Copyrightments within two months. The reviewers may request that

Full copyright of all manuscripts published in the Journal isauthors revise the manuscript. Revised manuscripts must bereserved by the Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture.

returned within three months. A manuscript that is not returned within this period will be considered withdrawn. The
acceptance of a manuscript is decided by the Editorial Board
after the assessment and recommendation of the Editor.
7. Process after Acceptance
When acceptance is given, the Managing Editor will informthe author by e-mail. Even after acceptance, the author may
be asked to perform minor revisions of the manuscript. If theEditor considers it necessary, an English editing service will

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Type of article: Regular paper

5Title: Response to Photosynthesis of Sugar Beet Cultivated with Conventional
Surface Irrigation and Drip Irrigation in the Nile Delta, Egypt.
Running title: Response to photosynthesis of sugar beet in the Nile delta.

1015Authors: Katsuyoshi SHIMIZU1,*, Korany Abdel-GAWAD2Afliated Institution:
1 Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai ，Tsukuba，Ibaraki 305-8572 Japan
2Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt*Corresponding author
shimizu.katsuyosh.gm@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

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Keywords: ABA, Ca, Light-curve, Photosynthetic rate, Stomatal conductance

Abstract
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is cultivated for sugar production and it is the secondsource of sugar next to sugar cane in the Nile delta. Sugar beet can store a highpercentage of sucrose. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・
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5Introduction
Food production in the Nile delta elds has supported Egyptian people’s
daily life for a long time (Hamdan, 2000). In the Nile delta area, farmers cancultivate crops all year round because the weather is hot in summer andwarm in winter. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

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Materials and Methods

Growth increment
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L., cv. TOP) plants were cultivated at the experimental
elds of Agricultural Research Center in Sakha, Kafr El-Shaikh, Egypt. Field soils
are classied according to “Soil Taxonomy” as order Vertisols. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

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