IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences
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Open Access Policy
IJFANS journal in full open access, meaning unlimited use and reuse of articles, in addition to giving credit to the authors. All of our articles are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.
Authors pay a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) 250USD to cover the costs of peer review administration and management, professional production of articles in PDF and other formats, and dissemination of published papers in various venues, in addition to other publishing functions. Please note that the option to process an advance payment remains but does not guarantee acceptance of manuscripts. There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data. Some items (Editorials, Corrections, Addendums, Retractions, Comments, etc.) are published free of charge.
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Digital Archiving
In order to digitally preserve all published scholarly content, International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences committed to submit the metadata of all its articles to Archive.org. This is to make sure that the published scholarly content by International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences remains available to the community despite any unintended loss of data in its personal archival records. International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences has further made sure that the metadata of all of its open access content is compliant to well-known repository services and their digital crawlers may regularly collect it for record and preservation.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are set out below.
Allegations of misconduct
Journals should have a clearly described process for handling allegations, however they are brought to the journal’s or publisher’s attention. Journals must take seriously allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication. Policies should include how to handle allegations from whistleblowers.
Authorship and contributorship
Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship as well as processes for managing potential disputes
Peer Review All peer review processes must be transparently described and well managed. Journals should provide training for editors and reviewers and have policies on diverse aspects of peer review International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences employ a double-blind review process, in which the author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. Redundant or duplicate publication Duplicate or redundant publication is a publication that overlaps substantially with one already published, in press, or in an electronic media submission. (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/overlapping-publications.html) Duplicate or redundant submission is the same manuscript (or the same data) that is submitted to different journals at the same time. International copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost effective use of resources require that readers can be assured that what they are reading is original. (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/overlapping-publications.html) Submitted manuscripts should not have been published or currently submitted elsewhere. Duplicate publication is a violation of the APA code of ethics (APA Publication Manual, 2010) and will be grounds for prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. If the editor was not aware of the violation and the article has been published, a notice of duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be published. Retraction policy International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences abide by COPE Retraction Guidelines. Conflicts of interest At the point of submission, policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated – including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. If the manuscript is accepted, Conflict of Interest information will be communicated in a published statement. Permissions to reproduce previously published material Permission is required to reproduce material (such as illustrations) from the copyright holder. Articles cannot be published without these permissions. Patient consent forms The protection of a patient’s right to privacy is essential. Please collect and keep copies of patients’ consent forms on which patients or other subjects of your experiments clearly grant permission for the publication of photographs or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the identifying material. A statement to the effect that such consent had been obtained must be included in the Methods’ section of your paper. If necessary the Editors may request a copy of any consent forms. Ethics committee approval All articles dealing with original human or animal data must include a statement on ethics approval at the beginning of the Methods section. This paragraph must contain the following information: the name and address of the ethics committee responsible; the protocol number that was attributed by this ethics committee; and the date of approval by the ethics committee. The paragraph could read, for example: In addition and as stated above, for studies conducted on human participants you must state clearly that you obtained written informed consent from the study participants; please also look at the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Similarly, for experiments involving animals you must state the care of animal and licensing guidelines under which the study was performed and report these in accordance with the ARRIVE (Animals in Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) statement. If ethics clearance was not necessary, or if there was any deviation from these standard ethical requests, please state why it was not required. Please note that the editors may ask you to provide evidence of ethical approval. If you have approval from a National Drug Agency (or similar) please state this and provide details, this can be particularly useful when discussing the use of unlicensed drugs. Plagiarism International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences, evaluate submissions on the understanding that they are the original work of the author(s). Re-use of text, data, figures, or images without appropriate acknowledgment or permission is considered plagiarism, as is the paraphrasing of text, concepts, and ideas. All allegations of plagiarism are investigated in accordance with COPE guidelines detailed at https://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/plagiarism%20A.pdf. |
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are set out below.
Allegations of misconduct
Journals should have a clearly described process for handling allegations, however they are brought to the journal’s or publisher’s attention. Journals must take seriously allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication. Policies should include how to handle allegations from whistleblowers.
Authorship and contributorship
Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship as well as processes for managing potential disputes
Peer Review All peer review processes must be transparently described and well managed. Journals should provide training for editors and reviewers and have policies on diverse aspects of peer review International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences employ a double-blind review process, in which the author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. Redundant or duplicate publication Duplicate or redundant publication is a publication that overlaps substantially with one already published, in press, or in an electronic media submission. (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/overlapping-publications.html) Duplicate or redundant submission is the same manuscript (or the same data) that is submitted to different journals at the same time. International copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost effective use of resources require that readers can be assured that what they are reading is original. (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/overlapping-publications.html) Submitted manuscripts should not have been published or currently submitted elsewhere. Duplicate publication is a violation of the APA code of ethics (APA Publication Manual, 2010) and will be grounds for prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. If the editor was not aware of the violation and the article has been published, a notice of duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be published. Retraction policy International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences abide by COPE Retraction Guidelines. Conflicts of interest At the point of submission, policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated – including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. If the manuscript is accepted, Conflict of Interest information will be communicated in a published statement. Permissions to reproduce previously published material Permission is required to reproduce material (such as illustrations) from the copyright holder. Articles cannot be published without these permissions. Patient consent forms The protection of a patient’s right to privacy is essential. Please collect and keep copies of patients’ consent forms on which patients or other subjects of your experiments clearly grant permission for the publication of photographs or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the identifying material. A statement to the effect that such consent had been obtained must be included in the Methods’ section of your paper. If necessary the Editors may request a copy of any consent forms. Ethics committee approval All articles dealing with original human or animal data must include a statement on ethics approval at the beginning of the Methods section. This paragraph must contain the following information: the name and address of the ethics committee responsible; the protocol number that was attributed by this ethics committee; and the date of approval by the ethics committee. The paragraph could read, for example: In addition and as stated above, for studies conducted on human participants you must state clearly that you obtained written informed consent from the study participants; please also look at the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Similarly, for experiments involving animals you must state the care of animal and licensing guidelines under which the study was performed and report these in accordance with the ARRIVE (Animals in Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) statement. If ethics clearance was not necessary, or if there was any deviation from these standard ethical requests, please state why it was not required. Please note that the editors may ask you to provide evidence of ethical approval. If you have approval from a National Drug Agency (or similar) please state this and provide details, this can be particularly useful when discussing the use of unlicensed drugs. Plagiarism International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences, evaluate submissions on the understanding that they are the original work of the author(s). Re-use of text, data, figures, or images without appropriate acknowledgment or permission is considered plagiarism, as is the paraphrasing of text, concepts, and ideas. All allegations of plagiarism are investigated in accordance with COPE guidelines detailed at https://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/plagiarism%20A.pdf. |
Plagiarism Policy
- None of the part of manuscript is plagiarized from other sources
- Proper reference is provided for all contents extracted from other sources
- Strong action will be taken against cases of plagiarism
All the papers submitted have to pass through an initial screening and will be checked through the Advanced Plagiarism Detection Software (CrossCheck by iThenticate)
Peer-Review Policy
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences employ a double-blind review process, in which the author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.
Correction, Retraction, Withdrawal Policies
Corrections
- Before publications:
PDF Galley proofs are sent to the author for proofreading and corrections are done before the PDF’s are sent for printing. - Post Publishing:
Corrections are published if the publication record is seriously affected with regard to the accuracy of published information. Corrections are published in the subsequent issue under Corrections and addendum.
Retractions
- International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences Retraction policy is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please see: Click here to view retraction policy
Withdrawal Policy
- Manuscripts may be withdrawn by submitting a letter to the editorial office stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal.
- If an author requests a withdrawal within 10 days of submission, the author is allowed to withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal fee.Correction, Retraction, Withdrawal Policies
Corrections
- Before publications:
PDF Galley proofs are sent to the author for proofreading and corrections are done before the PDF’s are sent for printing. - Post Publishing:
Corrections are published if the publication record is seriously affected with regard to the accuracy of published information. Corrections are published in the subsequent issue under Corrections and addendum.
Retractions
- International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences Retraction policy is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please see: Click here to view retraction policy
Withdrawal Policy
- Manuscripts may be withdrawn by submitting a letter to the editorial office stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal.
- If an author requests a withdrawal within 10 days of submission, the author is allowed to withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal fee.Correction, Retraction, Withdrawal Policies
Corrections
- Before publications:
PDF Galley proofs are sent to the author for proofreading and corrections are done before the PDF’s are sent for printing. - Post Publishing:
Corrections are published if the publication record is seriously affected with regard to the accuracy of published information. Corrections are published in the subsequent issue under Corrections and addendum.
Retractions
- International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences Retraction policy is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please see: Click here to view retraction policy
Withdrawal Policy
- Manuscripts may be withdrawn by submitting a letter to the editorial office stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal.
- If an author requests a withdrawal within 10 days of submission, the author is allowed to withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal fee.Conflict of Interest
Conflict of Interest Policy
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences Conflict of Interest policy is based on the COPE’s definition and guidelines:
‘Conflicts of interest comprise those which may not be fully apparent and which may influence the judgment of author, reviewers, and editors. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived. They may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial.
“Financial” interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies and company support for staff.’
https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf
Digital Preservation Policy
In order to digitally preserve all published scholarly content, International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences committed to submit the metadata of all its articles to Archive.org. This is to make sure that the published scholarly content by International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences remains available to the community despite any unintended loss of data in its personal archival records. International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences has further made sure that the metadata of all of its open access content is compliant to well-known repository services and their digital crawlers may regularly collect it for record and preservation.
Waiver Policy
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences offers up to 20% waiver on the actual APC to authors from lower income and lower middle income countries, depending on quality of work and other special considerations.
International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences reserve the right to approve or reject any waiver application. Waiver decision will be communicated to the corresponding author within one week after the request is received.
Waiver applications should be submitted before submitting the manuscript online to info@ijfans.org
Human and Animal Experimentation
Established standards and procedures should be followed in the protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioural Research whereby research participants are fully aware of the research and the impact and risk of such research on the research participant and others.
- Articles conducting any animal or clinical studies should contain a statement in accordance with the animal and human ethics committee.
- Research should be carried out in a manner that animals do not get affected unnecessarily.
- Registration is required for all clinical trials.Advertising Policy
IJFANS accepts the advertisements on its pages from the individuals, organizations, or institutions who are genuinely promoting Food and Nutritional products. Accepting the advertisement, however, is entirely the decision of the editorial board subject to its advertisement policy. By publishing any advertisement on its pages, the journal however does not endorse any product, procedure, or person and does not endorse the claims made in the advertisement. The journal, therefore, disowns any responsibility caused by the use of any product or service published as an advertisement on IJFANS pages. The readers of IJFANS are advised to check the quality and claims of any product or service before its use. IJFANS further abides by the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 which controls the advertising of drugs in India. It prohibits advertisements of drugs and remedies that claim to have magical properties and makes doing so a cognizable offense.
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