Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • You retain ownership of all rights under copyright in all versions of the article. You hereby grant a Creative Commons copyright license in the article to the general public, in particular a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • You have read the instructions for authors and have prepared the manuscript with the provided template. You have checked if your manuscript fits in the scope of VITIS in the section "about the journal".
  • To the extent that any edits made by the publisher to make the article suitable for publication in the journal amount to copyrightable works of authorship, the publisher hereby assigns all right, title, and interest in such edits to you. The publisher agrees to verify with you any such edits that are substantive. You agree that the license of the first item covers such edits.

  • You warrant that:

    The article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal or in a book or edited collection, and is not under consideration for any such publication.

  • You warrant that:

    The article does not libel anyone, invade anyone’s copyright or otherwise violate any statutory or common law right of anyone, and that you have made all reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy of any factual information contained in the article. You agree to indemnify the publisher against any claim or action alleging facts which, if true, constitute a breach of any of the foregoing warranties or other provisions of this agreement, as well as against any related damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses incurred by the publisher.

  • You warrant that:

    You are the sole author(s) of the article, and that you have a complete and unencumbered right to make the grants you make.

Author Guidelines

Form of the Manuscript

Authors are requested  to prepare their manuscripts as follows: double spaced  but not two columns. Tables, figures and photos must be uploaded separately.

Literature citation, e.g.:

for journal articles:
Lahogue, F.; Boulard, G.; Schneider, C.; 1995: Comparaison de différentes techniques de greffage vis-à-vis de leur efficacité de transmission virale sur vigne. Vitis 34, 177-183.

for articles in conference proceedings and monographs:
Dry, P. R.; Loveys, B. R.; Botting, D. G.; 1996: Effects of partial rootzone drying on grapevine vigour, yield composition of fruit and use of water. In: C. S. Stockley; A. N. Sas; R. S. Johnstone; T. H. Lee (Eds.): Proc. 9th. Aust. Wine Ind. Techn. Conf., 128-131. Adelaide, Australia (Winetitles: Adelaide).
(Please write authors' names in normal or small capital letters, but not in capital letters.)

Please provide DOI's (digital object identifier) to online reference where available.

Papers are limited to 8 printed pages except for reviews. The final size of a paper may be calculated as follows: One printed page usually has two columns with 59 lines each with about 55 characters per line. Research Notes are restricted to two printed pages (appr. 8000 characters). Articles describing grapevine cultivars must be submitted as research note.

Supplemental material can be uploaded, too. It will be found on the journal homepage for download.

Photos in black and white or colour are accepted. Photos must be sent in TIFF- or JPG-format (no compression). The resolution must be no less than 300 dpi. Colour photos must be sent in CMYK colour-mode.

Text files of the manuscript in MS-Word format are welcome. Tables must be created with the table-function of MS-Word. Special characters (e.g. greek, mathematical) must be created with the symbol-function of MS-Word.

Manuscript submission

The fully prepared manuscript is then ready for submission. Log-in or create an account as an author and start a new submission. Follow the instructions on the screen and finish each of the 5 submission steps by a click on "save and continue".

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