The Journal of Agricultural Engineering (JAE) is the official journal of the Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering -AIIA -supported by University of Bologna. The subject matter covers a complete and interdisciplinary range of research in engineering for agriculture and biosystems. Instructions to Authors Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly recommended to have their manuscript checked by a language editing service, or by an

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... sh mother-tongue colleague prior to submission. Manuscripts should be saved and submitted as a single WORD file containing the full text, references, tables and figures. In case of acceptance, original text and figures must be provided for publication. Original Articles: should normally be divided into an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions and references. The abstract should contain a maximum of 400 words. Review Articles: no particular format is required for these articles. However, they should have an informative, unstructured abstract of about 250 words. Technical Notes: are articles with a simple layout and containing limited data (no more than two figures or tables) and a small number of citations (not more than 25). They should be limited to 2,000 words of text (figure captions, table headings and reference lists are additional to this limit). Manuscripts should be double spaced with numbered lines and wide margins and should be arranged as follows. Title page: including the full title, the name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation and the name of the corresponding author to whom proofs and requests for off-prints should be sent. Abstract: should not exceed 400 words.