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Manuscripts should be sent to the editorial office's email: contagri@polj.edu.rs.

Article Processing Charge (APC) The journal charges neither article submission charges nor article processing charges (APCs).

Along with submitting the paper (as the Word.docx file), authors must provide the following signed forms: Author statement and Conflict of interest statement. Authors should also send a cover letter along with the aforementioned documents. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, they shall also provide a signed Open Access License Agreement. All these files should be sent to the following email address: contagri@polj.edu.rs.

Authors’ Responsibilities

Authors warrant that their manuscript is their original work, that it has not been published before and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Parallel submission of the same manuscript to another journal constitutes misconduct and eliminates the manuscript from consideration by Contemporary Agriculture.
Author Statement
Authors’ Responsibilities

Conflict of Interest

Authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might have influenced the presented results or their interpretation.
Conflict of Interest Statement

Open Access Statement

The journal is an Open Access journal that allows free unlimited access to all of its contents, without any restrictions, to all users.
Open Access License CC BY 4.0

Copyright and Licensing Policy

Up to Volume 73, the CC BY NC ND 3.0 license was used. Starting from Volume 74, articles will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.

Authors are required to prepare the manuscript according to the instructions for the authors and can use the template.
Instructions for Authors
Manuscript Template

All submissions are thoroughly checked for plagiarism using iThenticate. Any manuscript that shows obvious signs of plagiarism will be automatically rejected. In case plagiarism is discovered in a paper that has already been published by the journal, it will be retracted in accordance with the procedure described below under Retraction policy. The journal Contemporary Agriculture will disclose information about violations of research ethics (by informing the authors’ institutions and relevant professional associations, as well as the editorial boards of other affected journals, if applicable), will retract the disputed article from the journal and permanently ban the authors from publishing in the journal Contemporary Agriculture.

Peer Review

The submitted manuscripts are subject to a double-blind peer review process. All of the reviewers of a manuscript remain anonymous to the authors before, during and after the evaluation process, whereas the authors remain anonymous to reviewers until the manuscript is published. The review is conducted by at least two reviewers. The approximate deadline for manuscript review is 30 days from the date of acceptance of the paper for review by a reviewer. In the main review phase, the Section Editor sends a submitted manuscript to at least two experts in the field. The reviewer evaluation form contains a checklist in order to help reviewers cover all aspects that can help decide the fate of a submission. In the final section of the evaluation form, the reviewers must include observations and suggestions aimed at improving the submitted manuscript; these are sent to authors, without the names of the reviewers. All reviewers of a manuscript act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Section Editor may assign additional reviewers.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
Reviewer Form

Contemporary Agriculture will publish accepted papers online as quickly as possible. Therefore, each accepted manuscript is published on the web page prior to the final typeset version. Full references to the paper (volume and pages) are provided once the final version of a paper is published.