Editorial Procedures and Notes for Authors

Editorial policy

The mission of LRRD is to:

• Provide a forum for exchange of information pertaining to sustainable use of natural renewable resources in integrated farming systems in the tropics and sub-tropics.
• Assist scientists in developing countries to prepare their research findings  for publication.
• Disseminate relevant research results rapidly, and in easily assimilable format, by making maximum use of electronic communication media

To this end the journal publishes both full-length papers and short communications (posters) describing the results of research that relate to the theme of sustainable rural development. Guidelines  for the preparation of  papers and posters are given in the section on Notes for Authors.

Submitting papers and posters to LRRD

Papers and posters should be sent by E-mail or on diskette to the Senior Editor (trpreston@email.com). If acknowledgement is not received within one week (in the case of E-mail) then authors should send a reminder to the Senior Editor with details of the file names and dates sent. The papers can be written with the aid of any of the principal word processing software programs and if sent as e-mail should be as attachments or "compressed and UUENCODED" files.   Further details are given in "notes for authors".

Editing papers for LRRD

The procedure is as follows

• Papers are received and coded (date of receipt and provisional URL) by the Senior Editor and then sent immediately to members of the editorial committee who comment on the suitability of the paper for publication in LRRD
• Communication with authors regarding proposed changes to papers in the light of editors' comments
• The final editing of papers when each issue of the journal is closed and the definitive version in "html" format is prepared

The responsibility of the editorial committee is:

• To receive (restricted circulation during one week to members of editorial committee) and assess all papers submitted to LRRD and to report within one week if they consider a paper to be unsuitable. The decision will be communicated to the authors and editors.
  
• To review papers for technical content and to send their comments and suggestions to the other members of the editorial committee (a list-server for the editors has been established to facilitate this task) regarding technical content of papers and ways in which the interpretation and presentation of the data might be improved.

• The members of this committee are:

• T R Preston (Senior Editor: trpreston@email.com)
• Rene Sansoucy, France (Assistant Editor: rene_sansoucy@compuserve.com)
• Mauricio Rosales, Colombia (mauricio.rosales@fao.org)
• Andrew Speedy, UK (andrew.speedy@fao.org)
• Hanne Hansen, Denmark (hanne.hansen@ihh.kvl.dk
• Jorge Combellas, Venezuela (jcombell@telcel.net.ve)
• Frands Dolberg, Denmark (frands@mail1.stofanet.dk)
• Christophe Dalibard, France (cdalibard@hotmail.com)
• Steven Lukefahr, USA (s-lukefahr@tamuk.edu)

Responsibility for posting the pre-publication papers on the Internet Home Page of LRRD and later the edited final HTML version, is with CIPAV (Nick Waltham and Hector Osorio)

Notes for Authors

The principle tools for publishing the journal are now: Corel Office 2000 (Word Perfect), Lotus 123, Microsoft Office 97 or 2000 (MS Word and Excel) and Star Office 51. These are the preferred formats for receiving papers and posters..

Authors should examine carefully recent papers and posters in the journal and follow the style currently in use. Where possible, please always supply the original spreadsheets and data which were used to produce graphics in the papers, since this allows us to produce a uniform look and maintain the quality of the finished journal. Likewise, if you have tabulated data in your paper, please format it using a table, and not tabs and spaces since tables are very well supported in HTML format.

References should be set up with minimum punctuation but maximum detail of the actual citation. Abbreviations of journal titles should not be used.  In the list of references, citations to "Livestock Research for Rural Development" should include the appropriate "URL" for the article. For example:

Guèye E F,  Ndiaye A and  Branckaert R D S 1998 Prediction of body weight on the basis of body measurements in mature indigenous chickens in Senegal; Livestock Research for Rural Development. Volume 10, Number 3: http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd10/3/sene103.htm

PLEASE use the Spell-Check and ensure that references in the text are in the reference list and vice versa. An easy way to check this latter point is to print the reference list and then from the beginning of the text to use the "FIND" command and type "19" and then "20". This will locate all the references assuming you have cited correctly the source including the date.

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