JOURNAL OF
Guide for Authors
AGRICULTURAL
ENGINEERING
1 - Scope of the Journal. The subject matter covers a complete and interdisciplinary range of research in engineering
for agriculture and biosystems.
RIVISTA DI INGEGNERIA AGRARIA
Official Journal of AIIA (Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Agraria) - www.aiia.info
Supported by University of Bologna and Ministero dei Beni Culturali
Chief Editor:
– ADRIANO GUARNIERI
Editorial Board:
– ANTONINO FAILLA, ALESSANDRO SANTINI, DOMENICO PUMO, VINCENZO MENNELLA, GUALTIERO BARALDI,
GIOVANNI RIVA, PIETRO PICCAROLO, LUIGI BODRIA
International Editorial Board:
– JOSSE DE BAERDEMAEKER, Belgium; JUSTO GARCÍA NAVARRO, Spain; LUIS MÁRQUEZ D., Spain;
JAN PAWLAK, Polona; LUIS SANTOS PEREIRA, Portugal; MANFRED WÖRGETTER, Austria
Editorial Manager:
– GIOVANNI MOLARI
AIIA Executive Board:
– ANTONINO FAILLA, President
– ETTORE GASPARETTO, Past-President
– ALESSANDRO SANTINI, Vice-President
– SALVATORE BARBAGALLO, CARMELO R. FICHERA, CARLO MANERA, PAOLO AMIRANTE: Members
– DOMENICO PUMO, VINCENZO MENNELLA, GUALTIERO BARALDI, GIOVANNI RIVA, PIETRO PICCAROLO,
LUIGI BODRIA, MARIO FALCIAI: Presidents of Sections 1 (Land and water engineering), 2 (Farm buildings,
agroenvironmental and territorial systems, rural landscape), 3 (Equipment engineering for animal and plant
production), 4 (Rural electricity and other energy sources), 5 (Management, ergonories and systems engineering), 6 (Postharvest technology and process engineering), 7 (Information systems)
– DANIELE DE WRACHIEN, GIOVANNI CASCONE, MARIO FALCIAI, FABRIZIO MAZZETTO, PAOLO MENESATTI,
GIOVANNI RIVA, PIETRO PICCAROLO: Board CIGR Members
– DANIELE DE WRACHIEN, PIERLUIGI FEBO, ETTORE GASPARETTO: Council EurAgEng Members
– CLAUDIA ARCIDIACONO, Sacretary
AIIA Supporting Members: Unacoma (Roma)
AIIA Collective Members: Istituto Agronomico del Mediterraneo (Bari), Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare (Firenze),
Istituto di Idraulica Agraria (Milano), Nobili S.p.a., (Molinella, BO), Unacoma Service S.r.l. (Roma), S.A.E. S.a.s. di
Poltronieri (Ferrara), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Agraria e Forestale (Firenze), Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie
Agro Forestali (Reggio Calabria)
Chief Editor: Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering - Viale G. Fanin, 50, 40127 Bologna Tel. 0039.051.2096193 - Fax. 0039.051.2096178 - [email protected]
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2 - Type and language of the papers. JAE contains original papers only and submission of a paper will be taken to
imply that no similar paper has been or is being submitted
elsewhere. Research papers are the usual papers published
and they should normally not exceed seven Journal pages.
The technical notes are the reporting of work not calling for
a full length paper. They should not exceed four Journal
pages. English is the language of the journal.
3 - Refereeing. All papers are refereed. Usually, two referees, who have appropriate knowledge of the subject, are
appointed for each paper. They are asked to return papers
within 45 days of receipt. The Editor collates the referees’
reports and adds his own comments. Final decisions on
papers are made by the Editorial Board. The authors can
check the status of the process on the following web
address: http://www.aiia.info/Rivista/Rivista.html
4 - Submission of the paper. Please submit the paper in
Microsoft Word by email at [email protected], including
address, phone and email of the corresponding author.
5 - Preparation of papers. Papers must be typed in singleline spacing using an A4 format. Please use options such as
justified layout, single column and import the figures and the
tables into the text. Avoid the use bold face and italic. You
should number every page. Do not underline anything and
avoid the use of footnotes in the main body of the text.
Authors whose native language is not English will find it
helpful to seek comments from a native English colleague if
possible before submission.
6 - Arrangement of papers. Your paper should be arranged
as follows:
Title, authors’ names.
Affiliations and addresses of all of the authors, e-mail of the
corresponding author as footnotes in the first page.
The main body of the text should be divided under suitable
headings, numbered to show the hierarchical order. Some or
all of the following headings may be appropriate, taking
account that Key Words, Abstract, Appendices, References
and Acknowledgments do not need numeration.
- Introduction. This should explain the problem investigated, review earlier work and state the intentions of the
present paper.
- Materials and methods.
- Results and Discussion. These should be presented with
reference to appropriate figures and tables. The most
appropriate presentations should be chosen and tabulated data should not duplicate what is shown graphically.
- Conclusions. Conclusions emerging from the work
should be succinctly summarised. These conclusions
will have been discussed in the paper and new material
must not be introduced at this stage.
- Acknowledgments.
- References.
- Appendices. It may be appropriate to place detailed
mathematical derivations in appendices, rather than in
the main body of the text.
- Abstract. The Abstract of not more than 200 words
should state the problem investigated, outline the methods used and summarise the main conclusions.
- Key Words.
7 - Style of text
- Headings: The title of the paper should be as short as possible. All section headings, table headings and figure captions should have an initial capital letter for the first word of
each expression only, while all other words, with the exception of proper names, should be lower case letters throughout. There should be no full-stop at the end of any title,
heading or caption.
- Units, symbols and abbreviations: The International
System of Units (SI) Units must be used. Units should be
printed in roman (upright) type and remain unaltered in the
plural form. There should be a space between the numerical
value and the unit symbol. In case of doubt see:
http://www.bipm. org/en/si
- Mathematical symbols: Symbols should be kept as simple
as possible and all symbols used must be defined. Where
many symbols are used in a paper, they should be listed in
an unnumbered section headed “Notation”. In addition, it is
helpful to define each symbol as it is used for the first time.
Mathematical symbols should be printed in italics, since this
helps to distinguish them from units, which are printed in
upright form.
- References: References in the text should be in the format
of surnames of first author followed by the year of publication of the appropriate reference, in parentheses. At the end
of the paper, there should be a section headed “References”
in which the full references should be given, listed in alphabetical order. Each reference should give the names of all
authors (or, if anonymous, the name of the organisation), the
title in the original language (and a translation into English
in parentheses), publication title (in full, not abbreviated),
the year of publication, volume and issue number, and
pages. Some examples of references are given below.
In the text: “Previous work has shown [Surname1 1998;
Surname2 2001a; Surname2 2001b]...”
In the reference list (to journals):
Surname1 A, Surname3 B. Paper title. Journal Title, 1998,
31(4), 102-108
Surname2 C, Surname4 D. Paper title. Journal Title, 2001a,
12(6), 122-126
Surname2 C, Surname5 E. Paper title. Journal Title, 2001b,
13(6), 20-28
In the reference list (to books):
Surname1 A. Book Title. Book Editor, 1995, Site of publication
- Figures and Tables: All illustrations, whether line drawings, graphs or photographs, are presented as figures and are
given a figure number (e.g. Figure 1) in ascending numerical order as reference is first made to each in the text. Each
table must be placed in the text and numbered consecutively throughout the text (with Arabic numerals), and referred
to as Table 1, Table 2, etc. Captions should be placed
beneath the figure and tables. Any key information necessary for understanding the figure or table, without reference
to the text, should be placed beneath the caption. For purposes of refereeing, figures and tables should be complete
with all legends and captions.
8 - Proofs and reprints. The publisher provides page
proofs for checking and an order form with prices will be
sent to the corresponding author. These proofs, clearly
marked with the corrections, should be returned to the email
address of the journal [email protected], with the minimum of delay. Paper offprints can be ordered by the authors
directly from the editor [email protected].