Concept, Guidelines, Organs and History of the Yearbook Agricultural Engineering

Peer review process

At the request of the authors, the submitted articles are subjected to a peer review process in order to evaluate the scientific quality of the contributions. First, the editorial team checks the suitability of the article before a scientist selected by the editor carries out a review. Once the evaluation process has been completed, the authors receive the results and the reviewers' comments. The articles are assessed in a single-blind process. The evaluation criteria include the quality of the content (methods and results), the relevance for science, industry and practice in agriculture as well as the quality of the presentation.

After the review, the authors will be informed whether the article is

• accepted without changes,
• accepted with minor changes,
• accepted with extensive changes and further review or
• rejected.

In the case of publication, it is noted when it was accepted.

The publication date always corresponds to that of the entire volume in the corresponding year.

Publication frequency

The Agricultural Engineering Yearbook and its articles are published once a year, usually at the end of the first quarter.

Copyright

Authors who wish to publish in this journal agree to the following conditions:

The authors retain the copyright.

They grant the publisher permission for the first publication under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC (license agreement). This license allows others to distribute, edit, improve and build on the work, provided the author is credited, as long as the use is non-commercial. Although new works based on the work must include the author's name and only be used non-commercially, these new works do not have to be licensed under the same conditions.

In summary, the following conditions result from the license:

• The name of the author must be mentioned.
• The content may be shared (reproduction and redistribution).
• The content may be edited (transfer and modification).
• The content must not be used commercially.

Open Access Policy

Open Access

This journal offers free access (open access) to its content. The authors and copyright holders of the articles irrevocably grant all users the free, worldwide right of access to these publications. This means that they can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts.

Within the scope of the license agreement, these publications may be copied, used, distributed, transmitted and publicly reproduced - in any digital medium and for any responsible non-commercial purpose - and adaptations thereof may be created and distributed, provided that the authorship is correctly indicated.

Long-term archiving

All articles are archived in electronic form at the German National Library for the long term.

Self-archiving

• Authors can archive the pre-print (manuscript before review or before submission without review).
• Authors can archive the post-print (manuscript after review).
• Authors can archive the publisher's version (PDF).

Publication fees

No fees are charged for the publication of articles (Diamond Open Access).

Checklist for submission of contributions

As part of the submission process, authors are asked to check their contribution point by point against the specified guidelines using the checklist for contributions. Contributions that do not comply with the guidelines may be returned.

• The article is previously unpublished in the form submitted and has not been submitted to any other journal; otherwise a statement in "Comments for the editors" is attached.
• The file is in the specified format.
• All illustrations, graphics and tables are inserted after the first reference in the text.
• Where possible, URLs have been added to the references.
• The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographical guidelines for authors.

Guidelines for authors

Authors are either contacted by the editors to ask whether they would like to publish in the Agricultural Engineering Yearbook. In principle, publication takes place once a year at the end of the first quarter; accordingly, the latest submission deadline for an article is mid-February, for contributions in the peer review process early January. The Word document serves as a template and the manuscript must be submitted to jahrbuch-agrartechnik@tu-braunschweig.de. The author guidelines, Word template and the right of use to be signed can be found here:

Author guidelines as PDF

Right of use as docx

Word template for submissions as docx

The Yearbook Agricultural Engineering was created in 1988 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Jürgen Matthies, Director of the Institute of Agricultural Machinery in Braunschweig and Dr. Friedhelm Meier, Managing Director of the “Landmaschinen- und Ackerschleppervereinigung (LAV)” in the VDMA. The new Yearbook was thus intended to be a continuation of the annual overviews for the field of agricultural machinery published from 1956 to 1969 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Segler, the founder of the Braunschweig Institute of Agricultural Machinery.

In 1990, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Heinrich Harms succeeded Professor Matthies as head of the Institute of Agricultural Machinery at the TU Braunschweig and became publisher and editor-in-chief of the Agricultural Engineering Yearbook with the 2005 edition. The Yearbook thus remained firmly rooted in the Institute - now the Institute of Agricultural Machinery and Fluid Technology (ILF). In 2010, Dr. Rainer Metzner from the KTBL replaced the retiring Dr. Meier as co-editor. A total of 23 issues of the Yearbook were published, which established themselves as important reference works until the print edition had to be discontinued in 2011.

With the 24th volume in November 2012, the new publisher and editor-in-chief, Prof. Dr. Ludger Frerichs, introduced the online edition and free internet availability of the Yearbook Agricultural Engineering. Prof. Frerichs has headed the Braunschweig Institute, now called the Institute of Mobile Machines and Commercial Vehicles (IMN), since 2012. In the traditional manner, the Institute actively supports the authors and pursues continuous further development of the online editions and the associated homepage. With the restart in 2012, the voluntary peer review process was introduced for the articles. Since the 30th issue in 2018, the articles are not only available on the homepage, but can also be downloaded in ePUB format for eBooks in addition to the pdf format.