It is mandatory for authors to follow the instructions below. Manuscripts that are not prepared accordingly will not be processed.
Aims and scope
Challenges of modern human society require extensive development of fundamentals and innovations to ensure sustainable production of quality foods and effective production of a wide range of biotechnological products including enzymes, medicines, food additives, etc.
Out of scope
- Manuscripts presenting simple recipes for food production with limited application and marginal novelty;
- Manuscripts duplicating any other previously published work, including your own previously published work;
- Manuscripts that are currently under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere;
- Manuscripts with insufficient novelty in the field of Biotechnology (manuscripts focusing only on the optimization of the culture medium, simple analysis, etc.)
Ethics of publication
The journal endorses the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). For detailed information about COPE please visit the COPE website at http://www.publicationethics.org. All cases of data fabrication, plagiarism, image manipulation, results manipulation, etc. will lead to rejection of the manuscript and notification of the administration of the corresponding author’s affiliation institution.
Permission to reproduce figures or data, citation of unpublished data
It is a responsibility of the authors to obtain permissions for reproduction of figures, tables, or text from published works. Permission is also required for references to any unpublished data of other scientists.
Plagiarism
All manuscripts accepted for publication will be checked for similarity with existing publications for plagiarism under the iThenticate plagiarism detecting system. In the Materials and Methods section, authors should refer protocols to the original papers and only their own modifications should be described in detail.
Manuscript preparation
Food Science and Applied Biotechnology journal only publishes articles in English. The American spelling is preferred. The manuscripts must be grammatically and linguistically correct. Authors who are not native English speakers are encouraged to use the help of colleagues fluent in English.
Types of contributions
The following categories of manuscripts are accepted for publication: research articles, reviews, short communications, technical notes, and cover letters.
Online submission of manuscripts
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