Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Hortorum Cultus publishes original scientific papers in English.

The paper is checked for originality with the iThenticate anti-plagiarism program.

All papers are reviewed by specialists from outside the Authors’ institutions keeping the principle of mutual anonymity, the so-called double-blind review process.

Authors are asked to suggest three potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. Please provide name, institution and e-mail address in the cover letter. The proposed referees should neither be current colleagues of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last two years. Proposed reviewers should represent different institutions and geographical location.

After the author receives a review, he sends a corrected copy of the paper and a response to the reviewer’s and editor’s comments.

The editorial office reserves a right to make cuts, corrections, and changes or substantive supplementations agreed with the author.

SUBMITTING YOUR PAPAER

1. Submission of the paper implies that it has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

2. We need 2 versions of the paper:

• version for the publisher with data of all authors (full affiliations, ORCID numebrs and e-mail addresses)
• version for reviewers without these data. The author should also attach the author's statement.
  ATTENTION! Please remove names of authors in figure captions and metadatas of Word file in version for reviewers.

3. The authors' statement should be signed by all authors, scanned and attached in the journal system. The editorial process will not be started without the author’s statement.

4. The Editorial Office considers the author submitting the paper in the open journal system to be the corresponding author.
The corresponding author handles all correspondence about the article on behalf of all the authors. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all the authors’ contact details are correct. 

6. Submission of a paper to the editor indicates that the authors accept the following charges.

Author’s statment [download file]

Technical support: journals@up.lublin.pl

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE (APC)

The publication fee is 1600 PLN + 23% VAT/ 350 EUR for standard size of a manuscript, and 280 PLN + 23% VAT/ 60 EUR for each additional commenced page (reverse charge).

The standard size of an article is a maximum of 16 pages of the submitted article with tables and illustrations, prepared according to the following parameters: A-4 format, margins 2.5 cm, typed with Times New Roman font 12 points, line spacing 1.5.

A fee of 50 PLN + 23% VAT/ 11 EUR per figure will be added for additional processing of figures that are unsuitable for publication in their submitted form – they do not meet publishing standards or contain factual errors.

Payments should be made after we receive information that the article has been accepted for publication.

The payment should be made by bank transfer. Bank fee is not included in the price.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Size of the paper including tables, figures and photographs should not exceed 16 pages of A-4 format (standard margins 2.5 cm).
2. Style of documents – the text of the paper should be typed with Times New Roman font 12 points, 1.5 l of space between the lines, setting parts of the text in special typeface is allowed, e.g. italics or bold, but without underlining letters, words and sentences.
3. Tables and figures – size cannot exceed 16 cm × 24 cm. Numbers of tables and figures – Arabic numerals. The manuscript should be saved in one file. Tables should be included at the end of the manuscript file. If necessary, the author is asked to send the original files of photographs and figures, e.g. if a drawing has been created in Corel Draw, Excel, Photoshop, you are kindly asked to attach it in the files of these programs.
4. Units – the international SI system is binding, e.g. g·dm^–3 or g dm^–3.

ARTICLE STRUCTURE

1. Title of the article.
2. Names of authors (with first names spelled out, middle names as initial, and last name CAPITALIZED).
3. ORCID numbers of all authors.
4. Affiliations of all authors (department or faculty, university, address, country).
5. Corresponding addresses of all authors – e-mail.
6. Abstract (from 600 to 1500 characters without spaces).
7. Keywords – 3–6 words useful when indexing and searching, from the general to specific ones.
8. The main text of the research paper should include: introduction with the aim and research hypothesis, material and methods, results, discussion, conclusions (or summary).
9.  Source of research funding.
10.  Conflict of interest.
11. Declaration of using generative AI tools.
12. References - prepared according to the guidelines below.

REFERENCES

1. All references in the text should be included in the reference list. All items given in the reference list should be cited in the text.

2. Citations in the text of the article.

• Citations in the text should be provided in square brackets  - first the name of the author/authors, then the year of publication [Kowalski and Lewandowski 2000]. If you cite more than one publication in the same place, you should list them in chronological order [Kowalski and Lewandowski 2000, Lewandowski 2001, Zalewski et al. 2001].

3.  The reference list.

• The list of references should be presented in the alphabetical order.
  
  
• Book: author’s (authors’) surname, initials of first names; year of publishing, title of the paper; the publishing house, place of publishing.
  Parke, M. (1993). A garden for cutting: gardening for flower arrangements. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York.
  
  
• Journal article: author’s (authors’) surname, initials of first names; year of publishing, title of the paper; abbreviation of the title of the journal, volume, issue, page range/ article number; DOI.
  Weilharter, A., Mitter, B., Shin, M.V., Chain, P.S.G., Nowak, J., Sessitsch, A. (2011). Complete genome sequence of the plant growth-promoting endophyte Burkholderia phytofirmans strain PsJN. J. Bact., 193(13), 3383–3384. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.05055-11
  Cai, S., Zheng, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, Z., Yang, N., Zhai, B. (2023). Precision nitrogen fertilizer and irrigation management for apple cultivation based on a multilevel comprehensive evaluation method of yield, quality, and profit indices. Water, 15(3), 468. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15030468
  
  
• Chapter in a book: author’s (authors’) surname, initials of first names; year of publishing; title of the paper; In: book author’s (authors’) surname, initials of first names, book title, editor's (editors') surname, initials of first names; the publishing house, place of publishing; page range, DOI.
  Beyl, C.A. (2011). PGRs and their use in micropropagation. In: Plant tissue culture, development, and biotechnology, Trigiano, R.N., Gray, D.J. (eds.). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton–London–New York, 33–56.
  
  
• Legal act:
  Commission Regulation (2015). EU Regulation No 1258/2011 of 2 December 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels for nitrates in foodstuffs. Available: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32011R1258 [date of access: 21.10.2016].
  
  
• If there is more than one paper of the same author published in a given year, after the year it is necessary to mark particular items a, b, c, etc. [2008a, 2008b, 2008c itd]. 
  Patkowska, E., Konopiński, M. (2008a). Pathogenicity of selected soil-borne microorganisms for scorzonera seedlings (Scorzonera hispanica L.). Folia Hort., 20(1), 31–42.
  Patkowska, E., Konopiński, M. (2008b). Pathogenicity of selected soil-borne fungi for seedlings of root chicory (Cichorium intybus L. var. sativum Bisch.). Veg. Crops Res. Bull., 69, 81–92.
  
  
• If the publication is in a language other than English, you should provide the original title first, and then the English translation in square brackets.
  GUS (2024). Rocznik statystyczny rolnictwa [Statistical yearbook of agriculture]. Gówny Urząd Statystyczny, Warszawa.
  
  
• Be sure to provide the DOI (digital object identifier) number, if assigned, for all items, in the format https://doi.org/10.24326