Writing Guidelines for Journal of Krishi Vigyan(www.iskv.in)

1. Writing Guidelines for Journal of Krishi Vigyan
(www.iskv.in)
General Suggestions
 Complete research paper needs to be written in MS word with Times New Roman
font in size 12 except title of the paper.
 It should contain an abstract of 200 words with 4 to 7 keywords.
 Title of the tables should be bold.
 Name of the journal cited should be in abbreviated form and italics.
 Volume of the issue should be bold and all pages need to be numbered
 Statistical tools must be used to draw inferences from the data analysed
 All authors are required to be the member of the society
 There are no publishing charges or page charges, it is an open accessed journal
available at www.iskv.in and www.indianjournals.com
 Kindly check for plagiarism online and in any case it should not be more than 15 %.
 Try to include one or two references from the earlier issues of the J Krishi Vigyan
 Before writing a research paper for the Journal of Krishi Vigyan, authors are required
to read earlier issues of the journal.

2. Before Submitting your research paper
Please follow the guidelines strictly as under in order to avoid unnecessary correspondence
1. Write title of the research paper in font size 14 with theme font Times New Roman with first alphabet in
capital of each word e.g.
Design and Development of a Crop Information System for Technology Transfer
1. Below title of the paper , write name of all authors in a sequence by putting comma and do not put full stop
in the initials of name e.g.
V G Sunil 1, P Sujanapal 2, Berin Pathrose3 and K Prasanth4
Give detail of super script in the end of a research paper.
1. Below author’s name, write name of the institution with PIN, where research work was carried out as well as
affiliation e.g.
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Malappuram
Kerala Agricultural University, Mannuthy, Thrissur 680 651 (Kerala)

3. Whole research paper should be divided in to
 TITLE
 ABSTRACT
 INTRODUCTION
 MATERIALS AMD METHODS
 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
 CONCLUSION
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (optional)
 REFERENCES

4. ABSTRACT
Should be typed in single space with no references in its body. It
should include objectives, methodology, results and conclusion in brief,
each in 2-3 lines.
In fact, it should be written in such a way that reader should become
interested to read full research paper. Hence, make it complete in all
aspects.
Kindly do not repeat lines written in the introduction and conclusion
of the paper.
This is most important part of your research publication.

5. INTRODUCTION
Kindly write introduction keeping in view the title of the paper and
directly open the subject and include few recent references of other
workers to highlight the importance and utility of your research
publication.
Kindly do not write principles of the thematic area.
References should be written as ‘
For single author Ahuja (2018) or (Ahuja, 2018); Singh and Sharma
(2019) or (Singh and Sharma, 2019) and
if there are more than 2 authors , write et al in italics as et al e.g. (Singh
et al,2018) or Singh et al (2018).

6. MATERIALS AND METHODS
It should be written in detail so that a reader can repeat your experiment
at some other place after reading your methodology.
Do not hide anything.
Do not forget to write units such as gram. Kilogram, quintal or tone.
Give design of the experiment like RBD, CRD etc,
Give references for the methods used in estimation of various
parameters.

7. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Kindly do not write detail of the data given in Table, simply refer to
the table number as (Table 1).
Highlight special finding from the data given in table and corroborate
with the work of other scientist as these findings were in agreement with
Singh and Ahuja (2018) or ( Singh and Ahuja, 2012; Sharma and Singh,
2014; Momi, 2018) etc.
CONCLUSION
Should include salient findings based on results obtained and proposal for
near future, if any you feel deem fit.

8. REFERENCES
Need to be written strictly as per style of the journal as under e.g.
Tomar R K S (2010). Maxmization of productivity for chickpea (Cicer arietinum
L.) through improved technologies in farmer’s field. Indian J Natural Products
and Res 1: 515-517.
Nain M S, Bahal R, Dubey S K and Kumbhare N V (2014). Adoption gap as the
determinant of instability in Indian legume production: perspective and
implications. Food Leg 27(2): 146–50.
Sharma M K ( 2015). Designing a CD-ROM for awareness about abortion in
dairy animals. M.V.Sc. Thesis, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University, Ludhiana.