1 Introduction to Field Crop

This is a big challenge to agricultural scientist to feed the world with limited land and resources. Agricultural different technologies and models have been developed and still research is going on for developing new techniques so that we could feel food security. The research done by different scientists around the world should be published and everyone have right to gain latest research information. Dissemination of new techniques help to boost crop yield and reduce worldwide hunger. Thus there is needed to start a new journal which can address the agricultural scientist publication demands.

In agriculture, almost all research is done in field, and lab based experiments also conducted in the field to test its validity. This journal will publish practical based applied research with new findings, so that both scientists and policy makers can take maximum benefits. Articles based on different aspects will be arranged and published in different sections of this journal.

2 Aims and Scope

The main aim of this journal is to publish original, rigorous scientific research articles of field crops. Field crop research includes innovative research conducted in the field, farm or on the land related to edible agricultural food crops. The research must be experimental based on cropping system, crop physiology, crop genetics and breeding. The research may also include different aspects crop management, agronomy, plant pathology, entomology, soil science, vegetable and horticultural science related phenomena. The articles may be a research, a, review, a case study or an opinion letter. Latest development in field crop research will get maximum priority. This journal publish research articles which are strongly field based or both field and lab based. Only lab based research or hypothetical articles will not be eligible for publication.

3 Publication mode

We are following the Open Access publishing model. All papers published in this journal are licensed to all users under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CCAL), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any media, provided the original work is properly cited (see CropSci Publisher Open Access Policy).

Manuscripts can be submitted by CropSci Publisher online Manuscripts Handling System, or send your manuscript directly to the submission email of Field Crop: edit@fc.cropscipublisher.ca. For details please see Instructions for Authors.

4 Criteria for publication

4.1 Similarity check

All submissions must be subjected to CrossRef's plagiarism check by CrossCheck. Only those with no any similarity compared in the CrossCheck database can be proceeded for peer review. Plagarism check in this journal is solely for the purpose of submissions language arts and does not imply any plagiarism or forging existed.

4.2 Peer-review

Scientists in the world are invited to be as peer reviewer in this journal. All submission will be automatically transferred online to the reviewers by Manuscript Handling System in the CropSci Publisher prior to CrossRef's plagiarism check by CrossCheck.

4.3 Online publication

There are much more advantages for online publishing, including:

-- Peer review quickly and professionally

-- Anti-Plagiarism by CrossCheck

-- Publish on line immediately upon acceptance

-- Deposit permanently and track easily

-- Open Access under the terms of CCAL

-- Disseminate multilingual publishing possible

5 Publication Period

Field Crop promises to offer much faster publication schedules, normally it is four to six weeks depending on the speed of peer review. Using the recommended manuscript preparation formats will largely speed up the paper procedures and shorten the periods. Research articles will be published electronically in provisional PDF immediately upon acceptance. A fully HTML web version and PDF download version will be available within four weeks after acceptance.

6 Preferred citation

Articles in this journal should be recommended to follow regular citation rules. There is an exception for unique article series and doi instead of the page number.

The Preferred citation:

Authors' name, Publishing year, Article title, Journal name, Volume, Article number and DOI