The international scientific journal Acta Technologica Agriculturae (ATA) is dedicated to publication of scientific papers in engineering, agricultural and biological sciences and materials.

The author is fully responsible for the originality of the paper and formal correctness. The paper and its content must not be published previously elsewhere. The submission of a paper implies an undertaking by the author not to submit it simultaneously to other publications. The Board of Editors decides on the publication of papers, taking into account the scientific importance, peer reviews and manuscript originality, scientific quality and length. Original scientific papers are published in the English language. Papers must be written in good English.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Please use

British English;
Calibri 12 pt throughout the manuscript;
extent: scientific papers should not be longer than 18 standard pages A4 with double line spacing 2.0 (before: 0 b, after: 0 b), including tables and figures; shorter papers will also be considered;
margins: top 2.5 cm, bottom 2.5 cm, right 2.5 cm, left 2.5 cm;
page numbers: do not number your manuscript;
line numbers: line numbering should be used throughout the manuscript.

PAPER STRUCTURE

Title. Short, brief and concise information on the paper content.

Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author. Present the authors' affiliation addresses where the work was done below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript number immediately after the author's name and in front of the address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation and the e-mail address of each author. The corresponding author should be identified by the sign ^*.

Name SURNAME¹, Name SURNAME²^*, Name SURNAME³

¹ Affiliation of the first author: University, Faculty, Department, City, Country, email

²^* Affiliation of the second author: University, Faculty, Department, City, Country, email

³ Affiliation of the third author: University, Faculty, Department, City, Country, email

Additionally, authors must state their ORCID iD directly below their affiliation block in the following format: ORCID: https://orcid.org/XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. The ORCID identifier must be formatted as an active, clickable hyperlink directly resolving to the author's public profile.

The manuscript should be divided into the following sections:

ABSTRACT,
KEYWORDS,
INTRODUCTION,
MATERIAL AND METHODS,
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION,
CONCLUSION,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

Abstract. Please provide an abstract of 150–200 words. It should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. The abstract should be divided into the following sections:

Background and Aims (stating the main purposes and research question),
Methods,
Results (stating the main findings),

Keywords. Please provide 4–6 keywords at the end of the abstract to be used for indexing purposes. They should start with lowercase letters and be separated by semicolons.

Introduction. It should afford a review of related works and information concerning the state of research of relevant issues. Related references are recommended. The introduction should not be divided into subunits. It is recommended to include references to papers from peer-reviewed periodicals only.

Material and methods. All preliminary material, experiments conducted, their extent, conditions and course should be described in detail. This section should consist of subunits describing equipment, methods, and procedures. It is necessary to provide readers with enough details of methods and equipment to enable the described procedure to be repeated. When methods are not original, adequate references are recommended. Statistical processing methods, including the software used, should also be listed.

Results and discussion. Results should be presented briefly in tables or figures. The author should confront partial results with data published by other authors. Provide enough data to give reasons for conclusions. The same information should not be given in different forms (tables, graphs, text). In discussion, there is necessary to emphasise the importance of findings and to compare the information obtained with existing knowledge, if possible.

Conclusion. It is necessary to mention briefly the most important results presented in the paper, the key points of following research and experimental work, and recommendations for use in practice.

References. The list of references should be numbered and arranged alphabetically. Only papers cited in the text must be included in the list of references. More than one reference from the same author in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication. Citing reference in the text should be given in the author–date style, e.g. single author (Surname, 2025), two authors (Surname and Surname, 2025), three and more authors (Surname et al., 2025). Et al. stands for 'et alii'. It does not have a period after 'et' and does have one after 'al'. All non-English document titles must be translated into English (with the original language stated afterwards in brackets).

ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS

Acronyms and abbreviations should be used sparingly, in which case the full name should be written out the first time it occurs in the paper, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. It is not advisable to use any abbreviations in the paper title or in the abstract.

The decimal marker is a point (0.5 m), while the thousand's separator is a comma (10,000).
Use commas to separate thousands for numbers with five or more digits (10,000); do not use commas to separate numbers with four digits (5000).
To express a unit of measurement, insert a thin space between the number and the unit (5 g; 20 ha).
Use kg∙m^-3 instead of kg/m³.
Per cent. With figures, use the percentage sign (%) preceded with no thin space (25%).
Multiplication sign. Change points used as a multiplication sign to '×' (2.5 . 10⁵ becomes 2.5 × 10⁵).
Degree sign. The degree sign in temperatures should be preceded by a thin space (25 °C).
In research and academic writing, it is always recommended to avoid contractions (e.g. aren't, don't, isn't). Contractions are common in informal text, but not in formal texts.

Figures

Refer with Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. Figures should be presented as part of the text. The caption should be placed below the figure. For the best quality, pictures should have a resolution of 300 dpi. Use a capital letter to refer to figures in the text (Figure 1).

TABLES

Refer with Table 1, Table 2, etc. Tables should be presented as part of the text. A descriptive title should be placed above each table. Units in tables should be given in standard brackets (meV). Abbreviations or symbols used in tables must be explained as a footnote below the table. Use a capital letter to refer to tables in the text (Table 1).

Equations

Refer with Eq. (1), Eq. (2), etc. There should be one line of space above the equation and one line of space below it. Equations must be editable (equation editor in Microsoft Word). For mathematical expressions that must be embedded in text, use the equation editor only when you cannot create the expression using standard word-processing functions. For example, expressions such as 5.5 × 10⁸ can be created in Microsoft Word using superscripting, subscripting and symbols. Equations should be aligned to the left margin and their numerical designation to the right margin.

SECTIONS TO BE INCLUDED BEFORE THE REFERENCES SECTION

Author Contributions

Please insert here the contribution each author made to the manuscript: conceptualisation; methodology; software; validation; formal analysis; investigation; resources; data curation; writing—original draft preparation; writing—review and editing; visualisation; supervision; project administration; funding acquisition.

Funding

If your research was conducted as part of your regular employment at a university or research institute without any dedicated external grants:

Statement: This research received no external funding.

If you received financial support for your project, salary, materials, data collection, or equipment from a grant agency, government ministry, EU fund, or private corporation:

Statement: This work was supported by the [Name of Funder] under Grant [Grant Number].

Data Availability

During submission, you will usually select one of the following standard options that best fits your situation:

Data available in a public repository;
Data available upon reasonable request;
Data included within the article / supplementary materials;
Data cannot be shared due to restrictions (privacy/ethical/legal);
No data was associated with the study;
Third-party data.

Competing Interests

When submitting a manuscript, you must declare any financial or non-financial relationships that could influence, or be perceived to influence, your work.

If neither you nor your co-authors have any relevant conflicts, you must state this clearly using the phrasing: The authors declare no competing interests.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must declare the use of generative AI in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Title of new section: Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the manuscript preparation process.
Statement: During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [Name of Tool/Service] in order to [Reason]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the published article.

The declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools used to check grammar, spelling, and references. If you have nothing to disclose, you do not need to add a statement.

Authors are responsible for all content, including anything generated with AI assistance, and must ensure they have the rights to any AI-sourced material.

REFERENCES

Examples of references:

Reference to a journal publication: Ball, B.C., Crichton, I., Horgan, G.W., 2008. Dynamics of upward and downward N₂O and CO₂ fluxes in ploughed or no-tilled soils in relation to water-filled pore space, compaction and crop presence. Soil and Tillage Research 101, 20–30. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.still.2008.05.012
Reference to a journal publication with an article number: Shakoor, A., Shakoor, S., Rehman, A., Asraf, F., Abdullah, M., Shahzad, S.M., Farooq, T.H., Ashraf, M., Manzoor, M.A., Altaf, M.M., Altaf, M.A., 2021. Effect of animal manure, crop type, climate zone, and soil attributes on greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils – a global meta-analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production 278, 124019. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124019
Reference to a book: Congalton, R.G., Green, K., 2019. Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. ISBN 978-0-429-05272-9. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429052729
Reference to a chapter in a book: Horn, R., 2021. Soils in agricultural engineering: Effect of land-use management systems on mechanical soil processes. In Hunt, A., Egli, M., Faybishenko, B. (eds.), Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation. Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, pp. 187–199. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119563969.ch10a
Reference to conference proceedings: Ferdous, J., Soni, P., Keen, A., Gholkar, M.D., 2013. Performance evaluation of a small agricultural tractor on Bangkok clay soil. In Proceedings of CSBE/SCGAB 2013 Annual Conference, paper no. CSBE13-124. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, USA
Reference to conference proceedings published in a journal: Saney, A., Guha, A., Parulekar, A., Jadhav, S., 2020. Design and development of solar powered intelligent irrigation and water management system using data science. In ITM Web of Conferences (ICACC-2020), 32, 01008. https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20203201008
Reference to a website: CIMMYT, 2010. Maize Doctor. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre. http://maizedoctor.cimmyt.org/index.php?option. comcontent&task,view&id-8
Reference to software: R Core Team, 2021. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project. org/
Reference to a technical standard: ISO 45001, 2018. Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland. https://www.iso.org/iso-45001-occupational-health-and-safety.html
Reference to a thesis: Shaheb, M.R., 2020. A Study on the Effect of Tyre Inflation Pressure on Soil Properties, Growth and Yield of Maize and Soybean in Central Illinois. PhD thesis, Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire, United Kingdom. https://hau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17769/
Reference to a report: FAO, ITPS, 2015. Status of the World’s Soil Resources (SWSR) – Main Report. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, Rome, Italy, 650 pp. https://www.fao.org/3/i5199e/i5199e.pdf

CONTACT

Manuscripts should be emailed in the (doc.) format to acta.tf@gmail.com. The corresponding (submitting) author is responsible for managing all communication between the journal and all co-authors, before and after publication.

Compliance with these instructions is obligatory for all authors.

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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