The journal is an official refereed publication of Society for Promotion of  Tropical Biodiversity, Jabalpur and invites original research contributions in the categories -full length papers (up to 8 print pages) and short communication (up to 4 print pages), review articles (up to 15 print pages) and letters to editor (one print page) on diverse aspects of agriculture and forest of tropical regions of the world. However, one of the authors must be the member of the society.

An electronic version of the manuscript on compact disk or by e-mail (sptb05@hotmail.com) should be submitted to Editor, Indian Journal of Tropical Biodiversity, Tropical Forest Research, Institute, PO - RFRC, Jabalpur - 482 021, India. The diskette should be labeled with the version and type of word processor software, manuscript title and authors' names. Word for windows  should be used.

 The authors, while organizing the manuscript, should strictly adhere to the format and style of the journal for facilitating its editing and publication.

 ORGANIZATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

The authors must use a concise and grammatically correct English language. Manuscripts should be neatly typed on one side of A-4 paper, maintaining double space through out and leaving appropriate margins such as 4 cm left and 2.5 cm each of top and bottom. The manuscript should be organized as given below:

Title of the paper in CAPITAL letters must be brief and devoid of abbreviations followed by names (s) of author (s), authors' institution (s) and address (es) and running title. Name and address (including e-mail phone/fax number) of communicating/corresponding author.

ABSTRACT (up to 400 words)

KEY WORDS: up to six characterizing the scope of the paper in alphabetical order (in Italics).

ABBREVIATION: (if any)

The body of the manuscript text should be divided as:

INTRODUCTION:   Outlining the objective of the work and relevant review on the subject.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Brief but informative enough for reproducibility of work; a reference of the method published in a standard journal/manual to be mentioned if adopted without modification, else describe the modified method. Experimental design and statistical analysis must be clearly described.

RESULTS: Description. of salient findings needs to be mentioned with appropriate mention of data as tables/figures.

DISCUSSION: The findings must be explained in the light of existing literature on the subject followed by last concluding paragraph consisting of recommendation/hypothesis.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (if any)

REFERENCES: Should be listed alphabetically by the author's last name. In the text, the references should be indicated (within parenthesis) by the author (s) name (s) and year. The following format of  the references should be followed.

Zhas Y, Aspinal D, Paleg Z (1992) Protection of membrane integrity in Medicago satira L. by glycinebetaine against the effect of freezing. J. Plant Physiol. 140 : 541-543.

Cellarova E (1992) Micropropagation of Mentha L. In: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry Vol.9 (ed Bajaj P.S.) Springer -Verlag, Berlin , pp. 262-276.

Pilet P (1985) The Physiological Properties of Plant Protoplast. Springer -Verlag, Berlin –Heidelbercg - New York .

Tables and legends figures should be typed on separate sheets and numbered with Indi-Arabic numerals. The title of the table should be concise self-explanatory and Experimental details which have not been mentioned in the text should be given in the notes to the tables or the legends of the figures. Line drawings should be in JPEG format with minimum 600 resolution.

Reprints: The author (s) will compulsorily required to pay printing charges of Rs. 150/- per page for black and white and Rs. 1000/- per page for colored pages/plates. After publication the corresponding author will be provided a soft copy (pdf file) of the paper.