ARTICLE PREPARATION GUIDELINES

Journal of BinBee-Apicultural and Natural Products publishes research articles, letters and review articles. All submissions are submitted via e-mail as pikom.bingol.edu.tr. Our website is compatible with most web browsers and can be used from all OS. If the submission process is interrupted, we will inform this situation.

Page Structure: The right, left, bottom, and top margins shall be 2.5 cm. The paper type is A4. The paper dimensions are width 21 cm and height 29.7 cm. Page numbers are placed at the bottom of the page and are centered. The font type is “Arial” with a size of 10 points. Line spacing is 1.15, and a single space is left between two paragraphs. The beginning of a paragraph will be fully left-aligned.

Tables: These should be used at a minimum and designed as simple as possible. Tables are to be typed double-spaced throughout, including headings and footnotes. Each table should include in manuscript and numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Tables should be self-explanatory without reference to the text.  The same data should not be presented in both table and graph form or repeated in the text. Cells can be copied from an Excel spreadsheet and pasted into a word document (manuscript file), but Excel files should not be embedded as objects.

Figures: The preferred file formats for photographic images are JPEG format. All images must be at or above intended display size, with the following image resolutions: Line Art 800 dpi, Combination (Line Art + Halftone) 600 dpi, Halftone 300 dpi. Image files also must be cropped as close to the actual image as possible.

Use Arabic numerals to designate figures and upper case letters for their parts (Figure 1). Begin each legend with a title and include sufficient description so that the figure is understandable without reading the text of the manuscript. Information given in legends should not be repeated in the text.

Article Title: The title of the article must not exceed 25 words and should not contain abbreviations. The title should be in 14-point Arial font, with a line spacing of 1.15, centered, and each word should start with a capital letter. After the main title, leave two spaces in “Arial” 10-point font and then write the authors' names. Author names are in Arial, 10 points. Author affiliations are placed below their names with a space and should include the faculty, department, university, city, and country, all in 8-point font.

 

Abstract: The abstract must not exceed 350 words. It should summarize the article, providing a concise overview of the introduction, materials and methods, findings, and recommendations sections, but without directly repeating them.

Keywords: There should be at least 6 and at most 10 keywords. These words should accurately reflect the subject matter.

Introduction: The introduction should set the tone of the paper by providing the objectives of the study and an adequate background. The introduction should be general enough to attract a reader's attention from a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Materials and Methods: This section should provide a complete overview of the design of the study. Detailed descriptions of materials or participants, comparisons, interventions, experiments, and types of analysis should be mentioned. However, only new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's name and address.

Results: The results section should provide complete details of the experiment that are required to support the conclusion of the study. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the author's experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense. Results and discussion may be combined or in a separate section. Speculation and detailed interpretation of data should not be included in the results but should be put into the discussion section.

Acknowledgement: This section includes acknowledgment of people, grant details, funds, etc.

Note: The similarity rate of publications must not exceed 25%.

References: References are listed and numbered in the order that they appear in the text. In the text, citations should be indicated by the reference number in brackets. Multiple citations within a single set of brackets should be separated by commas. When there are three or more sequential citations, they should be given as a range. Example: “... aromatic acids have antioxidant and antibacterial properties in the literature data [22-24]”. Make sure the parts of the manuscript are in the correct order for the relevant journal before ordering the citations.

All references will be linked electronically as much as possible to the papers they cite, proper formatting of the references is crucial. Please use the following style for the reference list:

 

References

[1] Raza, A., Farooq, A. B. U., Khan, W. A., Iqbal, A., Celik, S., Ali, M., & Khan, R. S. A. (2020). Polymorphic information and genetic diversity in Brassica species revealed by RAPD markers. Biocell, 44(4), 769.

[2] Roberto, M.S., Hassan, A., Schon, A.B.C., Trondsen, M., Coelho, J.J., et al. (2020). Antibacterial and antioxidant properties of royal jelly. J Apicult Res 29: 1-29.

Books: Zhang, Z. (2006). Bioinformatics tools for differential analysis of proteomic expression profiling data from clinical samples. Taylor & Francis CRC Press.

Conferences: [1] Hofmann, T. (1999). The Cluster-Abstraction Model: unsupervised learning of topic hierarchies from text data. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

 

Note: Please list the first five authors and then add "et al." if there are additional authors.