Scope, Policy, and Instructions for Authors
(Revid April 2013)
Contents (click on the topic)
Submission of Manuscripts | Journal Scope | Manuscript Types | Ethics, Conflict of Interest | Author List | Editorial Peer Review Process |
Manuscript Preparation – Title and Authorship – Abstract and Keywords – Introduction – Materials and大学化学实验
Methods – Results and Discussion – Abbreviations and Nomenclature – Acknowledgment – References – Tables and Artwork – Table of Contents Graphics – Supporting Information – Currently Acceptable Word-
Processing Packages – Word-Processing Details
Revisions and Resubmissions | Journal Publishing Agreement | Proofs and Reprints | Reporting
Specific Data
IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Manuscripts and revid manuscripts must be submitted via the ACS Paragon Plus Web site (paragonplus.acs/login). E-mailed submissions and hardcopy submissions will not be procesd. An overview of and complete instructions for the Web submission process are available at the ACS Paragon Plus Web site.
The Paragon Plus Web site employs state-of-the-art curity mechanisms to ensure that all electronically submitted papers are cure. The same curity mechanisms are also utilized throughout the peer-review process, permitting access only to editors and reviewers who are assign
ed to a particular paper.
When submitting, plea be aware of the following requirements.
•All manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes an explanation of the manuscript’s significance, including its originality, its contribution to new
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•The system requires authors to supply the names, e-mail address, and affiliations of at least four recommended reviewers. The recommended reviewers should be experts in the subject matter of the manuscript and not be anyone who is or has been a former
advir/advie, colleague in the same institution, rearch collaborator, and/or coauthor of papers and patents or in any other way has a conflict of interest.
我看见•The author’s preference for manuscript category is indicated during the submission process. However, the final decision on the category under which the manuscript will be listed lies with the Editor.
•The manuscript abstract and text must appear in a single, double-spaced column; lines in the abstract and text must be numbered concutively from beginning to end in a parate column at the left.
•All coauthors listed on the title page of the manuscript must be entered into the Paragon Plus System at step 2 in the manuscript submission process. Only one corresponding
author is allowed for each manuscript in Paragon Plus. Additional corresponding authors may be designated on the manuscript title page.
•Authors lecting the Just Accepted manuscript option when submitting should be sure that the form of author and coauthor names as entered into the Paragon Plus System is
identical to the form on the manuscript title page.
•References must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.
•All of the text (including the title page, abstract, all ctions of the body of the paper, figure captions, scheme or chart titles and footnotes, and references) and tabular material should be in one file, with the complete text first followed by the tabular material.
• A parate conclusion ction is not to be ud. Conclusions should be incorporated into the results and discussion ction.
Complete instructions for manuscript preparation and a Journal Publishing Agreement form are updated frequently and are available at the Journal’s Web site. Plea conform to the instructions when submitting manuscripts.
Authors who manuscripts are published in the Journal will be expected to review manuscripts submitted by other rearchers from time to time.
JOURNAL SCOPE
The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry publishes high-quality, cutting edge original rearch reprenting complete studies and rearch advances dealing with the chemistry and biochemistry of agriculture and food. The Journal also encourages papers with chemistry and/or biochemistry as a major component combined with biological/nsory/nutritional/toxicological evaluation related to agriculture and/or food. As a general rule, manuscripts dealing with herbal remedies or tho testing specific compounds in cell-bad assays related to dia states (e.g., “anticancer” activity) will no longer be considered within the scope of the Journal and should be submitted elwhere. Manuscrip
ts describing properties of extracts, without detailing the chemical composition of the extracts responsible for the described properties, will generally not be accepted for review.
The Journal is organized into the following ctions:
Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry: crop protection chemistry, addressing synthesis combined with testing of new materials, environmental behavior and fate, residues, and mechanism of effects on both target and nontarget organisms.
递名片礼仪Analysis and Chemonsory Perception of Flavor: chemistry of flavor (i.e., smell, aroma, taste, texture, and color) of foods and associated with plant and animal production of foods.
Analytical Methods: new analytical method development using chemical, physical, and biological methods. When a manuscript describes the application of an existing method, even when modified, the category lected should be driven by the application (e.g., Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Analysis and Chemonsory Perception of Flavor, Bioactive Constituents and Functions, etc.).
Bioactive Constituents and Functions: identification and characterization of bioactive constituents (e.
g., antioxidants and other phytonutrients and nutraceuticals) in foods and how they function to affect health status of consumers, including molecular nutrition aspects. Manuscripts describing work with traditional medicines, herbal remedies, etc., will not normally be considered. We also urge authors to evaluate bioactives in animal models or clinical human trials and not rely solely on cell-bad or other in vitro assays.
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Biofuels and Biobad Products: chemistry of biofuel and biobad products, including feedstocks, conversion, refining, waste utilization, disposal, and sustainability, and environmental emissions and effects associated with the process.
Chemical Aspects of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology: process and underlying chemical science involving classical and modern aspects of biotechnology applicable to food and agricultural systems; to include proteomic and genomic techniques applicable to measurement and evaluation in food production and metabolism.
Food and Beverage Chemistry/Biochemistry: chemistry and biochemistry associated with food and beverage production, processing, preparation, composition, packaging and storing, including both naturally occurring and added components.
Food Safety and Toxicology: chemical aspects of toxicology of crop protection, contaminants, and related chemicals and the design and action of chemically related process that enhance food safety.
Targeted Metabolomics Applied to Agriculture and Food (new in 2013; e more details on p 18): applications of metabolomics as related to rearch topics in agriculture, food, and nutrition, in particular metabolite-targeted analysis and progress in the development of analytical platforms for metabolomics approaches.
MANUSCRIPT TYPES
Rearch articles must report original rearch that is expected to have a definable impact on the advancement of science and technology, incorporating a significant component of innovative chemistry. Originality will be documented by novel experimental results, theoretical treatments, interpretations of data, and abnce of prior publications on the same/similar topics. Fragmentation of work into an incremental ries of manuscripts is not acceptable.赠汪伦的古诗
Expedited Handling. There is no parate Rapid Communications, Notes, or Letters ction. However, manuscripts describing results deemed to be highly important and urgent in a field of re
arch will be considered for expedited processing and review. Only manuscripts reporting complete rearch,as oppod to preliminary results, will be considered. A request for expedited handling, along with justification for the request, must be included in the cover letter accompanying the manuscript.
Review articles will be considered that summarize information in a field in which the literature is scattered and/or treat published data or other information so as to provide a new approach or stimulate further rearch. Authors considering the preparation of a review should submit a synopsis to the Editor before submission to establish whether the manuscript will meet the guidelines.
Perspectives, which explore needs and opportunities in agricultural and food chemistry in a less technical format than a review article, will be considered. Authors should contact the Editor to outline the area to be covered before submitting a Perspectives manuscript. For an example, e J. Agric. Food Chem.2008, 56, 7587–7592.
招商Comments related to published papers will be considered from readers if the correspondence is received within six months of the date of publication of the original paper; the authors of the original paper will be given the opportunity to reply to such comments within two months, if they so desire. B
oth comments and replies should not exceed 1000 words each, including citations, and will be published concutively in the same issue of the Journal after peer review. For examples, e J. Agric. Food Chem.2007, 55, 7213–7214 and J. Agric. Food Chem.2007, 55, 7215–7216; J. Agric. Food Chem.2011, 59, 464–465 and J. Agric. Food Chem.2011, 59, 466.
Symposia or Topical Collections. The Editor will consider publication of a ries of manuscripts reporting or synthesizing original rearch that are prented in a symposium or otherwi clustered around a single topic. Prospective organizers should contact the Editor well in advance to determine whether the subject matter conforms to the Journal’s goals, criteria, and available space and to obtain specific instructions for submission of the manuscripts. For an example, e J. Agric. Food Chem.2008, 56, 5983–6184. Each manuscript will be subject to the normal peer-review process.
Additions/Corrections. Corresponding authors wishing to submit a correction to a paper already published in print should submit the item via the Paragon Plus Web site. In your cover letter, include the manuscript number of the paper to be corrected. In the correction document, include the full title of the original publication, all author names, the volume and page numbers of the print publication, the original manuscript number, and a brief description of the correction(s) needed. If a figure is to be corrected, plea include the figure in the correction document. Plea note that the Editor has final
approval as to whether an addition/correction will be published.
ETHICS, CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Authors and coauthors are responsible for the integrity of their manuscripts. The Editor may impo a two year submission moratorium on authors and coauthors that are found to be in violation of the ethical guidelines.
Authors and coauthors should familiarize themlves by reading the entire Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Rearch, which is available at the Journal’s Web site.
A statement describing any financial conflicts of interest or lack thereof is published with each manuscript. During the submission process, the corresponding author must provide this statement on behalf of all authors of the manuscript.The statement should describe all potential sources of bias, including affiliations, funding sources, and financial or management relationships, that may constitute conflicts of interest (plea e pubs.acs/ethics,
ACS Ethical Guidelines). The statement will be published in the final paper. If no conflict of interest is declared, the following statement will be published in the paper: “The authors declare no competing financial interest.”
AUTHOR LIST
During manuscript submission, the submitting author must provide contact information (full name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and mailing address) for all of the co-authors. Becau all of the author names are automatically imported into the electronic Journal Publishing Agreement, the names must be entered into ACS Paragon Plus in the same quence as they appear on the first page of the manuscript. (Note that co-authors are not required to register in ACS Paragon Plus.) The author who submits the manuscript for publication accepts the responsibility of notifying all co-authors that the manuscript is being submitted. Deletion of an author after the manuscript has been submitted requires a confirming letter to the Editor-in-Chief from the author who name is being deleted. For more information on ethical responsibilities of authors, e the Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Rearch. EDITORIAL PEER REVIEW PROCESS
Peer review is ud to help ensure the highest possible quality in published manuscripts. For a discussion of this, e“The Importance of Peer Review” by H. L. Wheeler and W. B.Wheeler, J. Agric. Food Chem. (Editorial) 2006, 54,8983–8983. Scientists with experti in the subject matter being treated will evaluate the manuscript for validity of the experimental design and results, originality, significance, and appropriateness to the Journal. The Editors may exerci their prerogati
ve to decline a manuscript without external peer review if that paper is judged to be outside the scope of the Journal (lacks significant chemistry/biochemistry), poorly written or formatted, fragmentary and marginally incremental, or lacking in significance. Manuscripts describing properties of extracts, without detailing the chemical composition of the extracts responsible for the described properties,will generally not be accepted for review.
All manuscripts submitted are reviewed and handled by the Editor-in-Chief or assigned to one of the Associate Editors. The Associate Editor and Editorial Assistant are then responsible for the assigned manuscripts, including evaluating the content and format of the paper, lecting reviewers, monitoring the progress of the review process, evaluating the comments of reviewers and forwarding them to the authors for their respon, communicating ultimate acceptance or rejection to the corresponding author, and carrying out a final check of accepted manuscripts for appropriate format and style.
