1、投稿方式：在线投稿。

2、官网网址：

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22143173

3、投稿系统：

https://www.editorialmanager.com/ipa/

4、主办单位官网：

https://www.cau.edu.cn/xkky/xsky/xxzb/index.htm

（中国农业大学学术期刊）

5、刊内电话：010-62737679

6、官网邮箱：ipa@cau.edu.cn；ipa_cau@163.com

7、出刊日期：季刊，逢季末月出版。

8、官方微信公众号：INPA

2026年1月29日星期四

Guide for authors

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About the journal

Aims and scope

The Journal of the China Agricultural University

Information

Processing in Agriculture (IPA) was established in 2013 to encourage

the development of science and technology related to information

processing in agriculture, through the following aims:

• Promote the use of knowledge and methods from information processing technologies in agriculture;

•

Report on experiences and publications of institutes, universities, and

government, as well as profitable technologies for agriculture;

•

Provide a platform and opportunities for exchanging knowledge,

strategies, and experiences among information processing researchers

worldwide;

•

Promote and encourage interactions among agriculture scientists,

meteorologists, biologists (pathologists/entomologists), information

technology professionals, and other stakeholders to develop and

implement methods, techniques, and tools related to information

processing technology in agriculture;

•

Create and promote expert groups for the development of

agro-meteorological databases, crop and livestock modeling, and

applications for the development of crop performance-based decision

support systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

•

Smart sensors, biosensors and bioelectronics, material and molecular

innovations for chemical and biological sensing, sensors, and automation

and control systems for agriculture;

• Wireless sensor networks, 4G, NB-IOT, and 5G applications in agriculture;

• Remote sensing and discrete element modeling (DEM) applications in agriculture;

• Simulation, optimization, modeling, and automated control;

• Decision support systems, intelligent systems, and artificial intelligence;

• Machine vision, computer vision, image processing and automation, and imaging technologies for high-throughput phenotyping

• Advances in spectroscopy and hyperspectral properties of biological products;

• Advanced computational approaches for solving agricultural and biological engineering problems;

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications in agriculture;

• Inspection and traceability for food quality;

• Precision agriculture, intelligent instruments, robotics, and co-robotics for agriculture;

• Internet of things, cloud computing, and precision farming;

• Big data, data mining, and data analysis for agricultural applications;

• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for sensing, imaging, and agricultural aquacultural applications.

Article types

1. Original research papers

2. Review articles

3. Application notes

4. Book reviews

Peer review

This

journal follows a single anonymized review process. Your submission

will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for

publication in this journal. If your submission is deemed suitable, it

will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent

expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether

your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors.

Read more about peer review.

Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:

they have written themselves.

have been written by family members or colleagues.

relate to products or services in which they have an interest.

Any

such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and

peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and

their research group. Read more about editor duties.

Authors

may submit a formal appeal request to the editorial decision, provided

it meets all the requirements and follows the procedure outlined in

Elsevier’s Appeal Policy. Only one appeal per submission will be

considered and the appeal decision will be final.

Special issues and article collections

The

peer review process for special issues and article collections follows

the same process as outlined above for regular submissions, except, a

guest editor may send the submissions out to the reviewers and may

recommend a decision to the journal editor. The journal editor oversees

the peer review process of all special issues and article collections to

ensure the high standards of publishing ethics and responsiveness are

respected and is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance

or rejection of articles.

Open access

We refer you to our open access information page to learn about open access options for this journal.

Ethics and policies

Ethics in publishing

Authors must follow ethical guidelines stated in Elsevier's Publishing Ethics Policy.

Submission declaration

When authors submit an article to an Elsevier journal it is implied that:

the

work described has not been published previously except in the form of a

preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or

registered report. See our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent

publication.

the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

the

article's publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or

explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried

out.

if

accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form,

in English or in any other language, including electronically, without

the written consent of the copyright-holder.

To verify compliance with our journal publishing policies, we may check your manuscript with our screening tools.

Authorship

All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:

The conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data.

Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

Final approval of the version to be submitted.

Authors

should appoint a corresponding author to communicate with the journal

during the editorial process. All authors should agree to be accountable

for all aspects of the work to ensure that the questions related to the

accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately

investigated and resolved.

Changes to authorship

The

editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to

authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that

authors carefully consider the authorship list and order of authors and

provide a definitive author list at original submission.

The policy of this journal around authorship changes:

All authors must be listed in the manuscript and their details entered into the submission system.

Any

addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship

list should only be made prior to acceptance, and only if approved by

the journal editor.

Requests

to change authorship should be made by the corresponding author, who

must provide the reason for the request to the journal editor with

written confirmation from all authors, including any authors being added

or removed, that they agree with the addition, removal or

rearrangement.

All

requests to change authorship must be submitted using this form.

Requests which do not comply with the instructions outlined in the form

will not be considered.

Only

in exceptional circumstances will the journal editor consider the

addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors post acceptance.

Publication of the manuscript may be paused while a change in authorship request is being considered.

Any

authorship change requests approved by the journal editor will result

in a corrigendum if the manuscript has already been published.

Any

unauthorized authorship changes may result in the rejection of the

article, or retraction, if the article has already been published.

Declaration of competing interests

All

authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with

other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or

bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include:

Employment

Consultancies

Stock ownership

Honoraria

Paid expert testimony

Patent applications or registrations

Grants or any other funding

Affiliation with the journal as an Editor or Advisory Board Member

The declarations tool should always be completed.

Authors with a journal affiliation to declare should enter the following text under “Other Activities” within the  declarations tool and should inform the journal and publisher prior to completing the submission process:

Given

their role as [insert journal role title], [insert your name] had no

involvement in the peer-review of this article and has no access to

information regarding its peer-review.  Full responsibility for the editorial process for this article was delegated to another journal editor.

Editorial

disclosure statements will be included as a footnote and/or in the

declaration of competing interest section of the article.

Authors with no competing interests to declare should select the option "I have nothing to declare".

The

resulting Word document containing your declaration should be uploaded

at the "attach/upload files" step in the submission process. It is

important that the Word document is saved in the .doc/.docx file format.

Author signatures are not required.

Funding sources

Authors

must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for

the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role

of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design,

collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report

and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources

had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.

List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:

Funding:

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant

numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle,

WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant

number aaaa].

It

is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or

type of grants, scholarships and awards. When funding is from a block

grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other

research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization

that provided the funding.

If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence:

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Declaration of generative AI use

Authors must declare the use of generative AI in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.

Elsevier

recognizes the potential of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies

(“AI Tools”), when used responsibly, to help researchers work

efficiently, gain critical insights fast and achieve better outcomes.

Increasingly, these tools, including AI agents and deep research tools,

are helping researchers to synthesize complex literature, provide an

overview of a field or research question, identify research gaps,

generate ideas, and provide tailored support for tasks such as content

organization and improving language and readability.

Authors

preparing a manuscript for an Elsevier journal can use AI Tools to

support them. However, these tools must never be used as a substitute

for human critical thinking, expertise and evaluation. AI technology

should always be applied with human oversight and control.

Ultimately, authors are responsible and accountable for the contents of their work. This includes accountability for:

Carefully

reviewing and verifying the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and

impartiality of all AI-generated output (including checking the sources,

as AI-generated references can be incorrect or fabricated).

Editing

and adapting all material thoroughly to ensure the manuscript

represents the author’s authentic and original contribution and reflects

their own analysis, interpretation, insights and ideas.

Ensuring

the use of any tools or sources, AI-based or otherwise, is made clear

and transparent to readers. If AI Tools have been used, we require a

disclosure statement upon submission; please see example below.

Ensuring

the manuscript is developed in a way that safeguards data privacy,

intellectual property and other rights, by checking the terms and

conditions of any AI tool that is used.

Finally,

authors must not list or cite AI Tools as an author or co-author on the

manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can

only be attributed to, and performed by, humans.

The

use of AI Tools in the manuscript preparation process must be declared

by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is

first submitted. The statement will appear in the published work and

should be placed in a new section before the references list.

An example:

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.

Please

read Elsevier’s author policy on the use of generative AI and

AI-assisted technologies, which can be found in our generative AI

policies for journals.

Please

note: to protect authors’ rights and the confidentiality of their

research, this journal does not currently allow the use of generative AI

or AI-assisted technologies such as ChatGPT or similar services by

reviewers or editors in the peer review and manuscript evaluation

process, as is stated in our generative AI policies for journals. We are

actively evaluating compliant AI Tools and may revise this policy in

the future.

Preprints

Preprint sharing

Authors

may share preprints in line with Elsevier's article sharing policy.

Sharing preprints, such as on a preprint server, will not count as prior

publication.

We advise you to read our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.

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