Criteria for publication

1. Types of article

The manuscript must be a research article, a methodology article, a research note or a review.

2. Research areas

The manuscript must relate to one of the research areas covered by BASE, namely: science and plant and animal production, forestry science, soil and earth sciences, agricultural engineering, the environment, bio- industries, agribusiness, sociology or rural economics.

3. Originality

The manuscript must be original and must not, under any circumstances, be submitted simultaneously to another journal. Presented results must not have been published in another journal. Each manuscript is subject to an information retrieval and an anti-plagiarism test before being considered for publication.

4. Structure of the article

The manuscript must be structured according to the standards of scientific literature. For research articles and research notes, the paper must follow the IMRaD (Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion) structure. Reviews should be structured in at least three sections: Introduction, Literature and Conclusions.

5. Style

The vocabulary used, spelling and sentence construction are assessed according to a rating grid that ranges from 1 (insufficient) to 4 (excellent). Articles that do not have an editorial level greater than 1 cannot enter the revision process and must be corrected before possible resubmission. After two submissions of the same article that are not editorially satisfactory, the submission will no longer be accepted.

The vocabulary, spelling and sentence construction in submitted articles are carefully evaluated. The text must be easily readable, clear and precise. American English should be used.

For research articles and research notes, particular attention should be paid to the definition of the research question, the use of scientific sources, the judicious choice of the hypothesis, the strength of the experimental design and the utility and relevance of the findings.

For reviews, the subject must be properly defined, the analysis and/or the presentation must be original, the literature selection must be well chosen and the work must open up new perspectives or provide practical answers to scientific questions.