Agroekonomika publishes scientific and professional papers in agricultural economics, rural development and related disciplines.

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1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Authors from Serbia submit two complete and fully consistent versions of the manuscript, one in Serbian and one in English. International authors submit manuscripts in English. The Serbian version may be written in Cyrillic or Latin script. The English version should follow British English conventions.

The manuscript must be original, unpublished and not under simultaneous consideration by another journal. All manuscripts are subject to originality screening. Manuscripts that are predominantly descriptive and lack appropriate analysis and interpretation will not be accepted as scientific papers.

The journal publishes: original scientific papers, review papers, short/preliminary communications, scientific or professional critiques, polemics and commentaries, professional papers, informative contributions and reviews.

2. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW

Manuscripts are submitted electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review. To preserve anonymity, authors submit a separate title page and a blinded manuscript.

2.1. Title page

The title page contains: manuscript title; full name of each author; affiliation and country; ORCID identifier; e-mail address of the corresponding author; and funding information. The corresponding author is marked with an asterisk (*). Affiliation and ORCID must be linked to the relevant author.

2.2. Blinded manuscript

The blinded manuscript must not contain author names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, acknowledgements or other information that directly reveals author identity.

3. MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE

Depending on article type, the manuscript normally contains: title; abstract; keywords; JEL classification; introduction; materials and methods/research methodology; results and discussion; conclusion; references; and author declarations. A separate literature review section may be used when justified by the nature of the paper.

The abstract must not exceed 200 words and should concisely state the subject and objective, methodological approach, main results, conclusion and contribution. It must not contain references, tables, figures, footnotes or unexplained abbreviations. A maximum of five keywords/phrases and three JEL codes should be provided.

4. MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING

Headings should be numbered to a maximum of three levels. Do not use blank lines, multiple spaces or manual formatting to separate paragraphs. Authors should use the styles defined in the journal's official template.

5. TABLES, FIGURES, EQUATIONS AND FOOTNOTES

Every table and figure must be referred to in the text. The same results should not normally be presented both as a table and as a figure.

6. CITATIONS AND REFERENCES

The journal uses the Harvard (author–date) style. In-text examples: one author (Petrović, 2020); two authors (Petrović and Jovanović, 2021); three or more authors (Petrović et al., 2022); direct quotation (Petrović, 2020, p. 45); multiple sources (Petrović, 2020; Marković, 2019).

References are listed alphabetically by the surname of the first author and include only sources cited in the manuscript. For multi-author works, all authors are listed in the reference list. A DOI must be provided whenever available, in the form https://doi.org/… ISBN and ISSN are not included.

Journal article example: Jovanović, D., Petrović, M. (2023). Title of the article. Journal Title, 52(2), 23–35. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx

Book example: Petrović, M. (2022). Title of the Book. Novi Sad: Publisher.

Book chapter example: Petrović, M. (2019). Title of the chapter. In: Jovanović, D. (ed.), Title of the Book (pp. 45–60). Belgrade: Publisher.

Institutional report example: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (2023). Title of the Report. Belgrade: SORS.

Thesis/dissertation example: Marković, P. (2021). Title of the Thesis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Novi Sad.

Online source example: FAO (2022). Title of document/database. Available at: [URL] (accessed: 10 January 2024).

7. AUTHOR DECLARATIONS AND ETHICAL REQUIREMENTS

At the end of the manuscript, as applicable, include: Funding; Acknowledgements; Conflict of Interest; Data Availability; Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Acknowledgements and other identifying information must be omitted from the blinded version.

Generative artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an author. Authors remain fully responsible for the manuscript. Use of generative AI beyond basic language and style correction must be transparently disclosed. Generating or fabricating data, results or references is not permitted.

Manuscripts involving plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data, or other unethical conduct will not be accepted for publication.