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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

INTRODUCTION

Journal of Food Science & Technology Nepal is an official scientific journal of the Nepal Food Scientists and Technologists Association (NEFOSTA). The journal publishes original research and review papers in all branches of food science and technology, such as food chemistry, food packaging, nutrition, food engineering, sensory evaluation, quality assurance and food safety that are relevant to food industry. The journal submitted should be innovative from all aspects of foods from farm to consumption such as the type of food materials, preparation, production, processing and preservation of novel, conventional and indigenous foods. The manuscript should possess clear scientific concept in methodology, results and discussion. In contrast to trade journal or magazine, the design of experiments should be scientifically and statistically sound in methodology. Appropriate statistical tools and data analysis should be conducted to test the impact of the test variables. Manuscripts should present the results of completed research work and therefore, progress reports are not accepted. Submitted manuscript should not be published previously nor should be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

 Types of paper

  1. Review articles on specific topics of higher utility and current trends. Any scientist(s) or technologist(s) who is expert in his/her field of specialization may send his/her contributions. The review paper should not exceed 8,000 words (Except figures and tables).
  2. Research papers on all aspects of food science and technology. It should not exceed 4,500 words (Except figures and tables).
  3. Viewpoints of higher utility and should not exceed 3,000 words (Except figures and tables). Any scientist (s) or technologist (s) who is expert in his/her field of specialization may send his/her viewpoint.
  4. Short communications of up to 2,000 words, describing work that may be of a preliminary nature but which merits immediate publication.

Review articles and research papers will be subjected to a peer review process.                                          

Manuscript Preparation

Things to be considered while writing manuscript

  • Manuscript-text must be saved as MS Word or RTF
  • Continuous line numbering must be added from the very first page (title) to the end (tables and figures)
  • The text must be double spaced
  • Font size 12 pt. for all the contents (headings font size can be 14 pt but should be consistent throughout the manuscript).
  • All pages must be numbered consecutively starting with the title page
  • The manuscript should only use SI units.

Authors should retain a copy of their manuscript since the editor cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of manuscript. Copyright of the article will be transferred to the editorial board of the ' Journal of Food Science and Technology Nepal (JFSTN)' upon acceptance of the article. Contributors are requested to follow the sequences as given below in their manuscripts.

 

Title page

  • Should be concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae
  • Author names and affiliations. Clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author. Mention the affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
  • Corresponding author. It implies a person who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Please mention the e-mail address, and telephone number(s) of the corresponding author.
  • Do not use space bars for indents, i.e. use tab stops
  • Do not use spreadsheets to make tables, instead use the table functions.

 Abstract (less than 250 words)
It should briefly state the purpose, methods, results and major conclusions. It should not include diagram, footnote, equation or any parenthetical references.

 Keywords
Keywords for indexing purpose should be written after the abstract and should not be more than five.

 Abbreviations

If abbreviations are used these must be defined at first mention there in the text. Please maintain consistency throughout the manuscript.

 Footnotes

Footnotes are used to provide additional information. Footnotes in the text should be arranged numerically in ascending order whereas footnotes to the tables should be denoted by superscript lower case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).

 Introduction
Clearly state the purpose or reason for the research being reported, and its significance, originality, or contribution to new knowledge in the field. Do not provide vast literature review on the subject and only provide relevant reference, according to the research topic.

 Materials and Methods
Materials and methods must give sufficient details for the work to be repeated. Please provide references to established methods. Also, describe if the standards methods have been modified with suitable reasons.

 Materials
Materials used in the work should be well defined (E.g. manufacturer/supplier, purity etc). The chemicals are to be referred by IUPAC names. Botanical name should be given for all agricultural/horticultural commodities, when appears for the first time in manuscript. All local names for food products e.g. Gundruk, Jand etc., must be in Italic types and should be briefly described when appears for the first time.

 Methods
Analytical methods, instrument details, etc should be provided in detail.

Data analysis
Methods of sampling, number of replications, software used for data analysis and relevant statistical analysis should be provided (include Standard Deviation or Standard Error of Mean).

 Results and Discussion
Results and discussion may be presented in separate sections or combined into a single section. The results should be presented in logical sequences in text. Each figure and table should be quoted in the text. While describing the results in the text, do not repeat all the data in the tables i.e. summarize only important observations. Please note that all the tables and figures should be listed at the end of the manuscript NOT in the main text.

Discuss the inferences obtained from the results. Inference should not be too speculative.  Compare the results with other relevant studies.

Conclusions
Please do not repeat the results provided in earlier section. Conclusions should be based on your results and it should be connected with your objectives/goals. Avoid any conclusions that are not supported by your data.

Acknowledgements
Acknowledgement can also be provided if any. Funding source, if any, should be enclosed.

 References

Please follow APA reference style in the text as well as in reference list.  A guide to APA referencing style 6th edition is freely available in the search engine ( google, bing etc).

Citation in the text

References should be cited in the appropriate places in the text by giving authors name and year in parenthesis.

 Parenthetical citation

Heat causes change in total energy but lesser on density of the protein molecules (Heremans, 1999).

Narrative citation

According to  Balasubramaniam and Dhakal (2016)….

 Balasubramaniam and Dhakal (2016) states that….

For multiple parenthetical citations

The effect of heat and pressure on protein molecules have been widely studied ( Dahal, 2005 ; Bhandari & Thapa, 2007; Dawadi, Khanal,  Khadka & Sharma, 2015).

Dawadi et al. (2015) further concluded that …

Researchers have reported the pressure-thermal effects on resistant bacterial spores (Dawadi et al., 2015).

 It is required that every reference cited in the text should be present in reference list and vice-versa. Only published results should be present in the reference list, except citation of a reference as 'in press' which implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

 Reference list

A list of references in alphabetical order (last name of the first author) should be provided. DOI of the published article should be provided, if available. The method of citation of typical references is as follows.

Published papers
Karki, S. and Dahal, K.P. (2005). Optimizing of Levels of Ingredients and Drying Air Temperature in Development of Dehydrated Carrot Using Response Surface Methodology. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 43(1): 17-26.

Dahal, S. and Katawal, S.B. (2013). Effect of Batter Ageing on Microbial, Physiochemical Changes and Sensory Quality of Sel-roti. Journal of Food Science and Technology Nepal, 8: 12-17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfstn.v8i0.11721

Group as author and website reference 

Cancer Society of New Zealand. (2013a). Ocular melanoma: Information sheet. Retrieved from http://www.cancernz.org.nz/information/cancer-types/

Internet no author no date

Pet therapy. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.holisticonline.com/stress/stress_pet-therapy.htm

Books/Approved methods
Ranganna, S. (2007). Handbook of Analysis and Quality Control for Fruits and Vegetable Products, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd, New Delhi.

AOAC (1984).Official Methods of Analysis, 14th Edition, Association of Official Analytical Chemists, Washington, DC.

Symposium/souvenir
Khatiwada, A., Dangol, T.R. and Rai, T.P. (1995). Protein in Whey-Chemical, Physical and Functional Properties. In: Advance in Food and Nutrition Research. Kinsella J.E. (ed.) Academic press, Newyork, pp 257-361.

Dahal, N.R., Qi, L. and Swamylingappa, B. (2003). Assessment of the Antinutritional and Digestible Characteristics of Masyaura- A traditional Food of Nepal. In: Proceedings II, Fifth International Conference on Food Science and Technology (ICFOST), Oct 22-24, Wuxi, P.R. China, pp 246-251.

Patents
Karki, T.B. and Bhattarai, U.K. (2004). Process for Preparing Algin/Calcium Gel-Structured Meat Products. US Patent 2 5006 024.

Thesis
Shah, D.J. (2007). Production of Carrot Juice, Ph.D. Thesis, Central Campus of Technology, Dharan, Nepal.

Papers presented in conference but not published
Rai, K.P., Xia, W. and Shrestha, A. (2008). Effects of Pure Starter Cultures on Quality of Dry Fermented Chinese-style Sausage, Paper presented on 14th World Congress of Food Science and Technology, IUFoST, Shanghai, P.R. China, 19-23 October.

 Table and Figures
The tables and figures (illustrations) should be in separate pages in the  same manuscript file after the References section.

 Tables: Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.  Tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals with clear table caption(title) explaining the components of the table. The table should not have more than 12 columns. Nil results should be indicated by using ND (not detected) while absence of data by the sign, ‘-‘.

Figures: The preferred submission procedure is to embed graphic files in a Word document. Figure should be sequentially numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure number should be in bold type. Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.). “Figure” can be abbreviated as “Fig” followed by figure number, e.g. Fig 1. All lines in the figure should be at least 1 pt wide. Figure lettering must be in Times New Roman with 12  font size for consistency. Figure size should fit in the column width.

Each figure should be described by a concise caption in a separate page after the reference section ( i.e NOT in the figure file). Reference figures should be cited ( original source ) after the caption in parenthesis.

Resolution requirements are essential for producing high-quality graphics. Graphics of poor quality may not be able to be improved. Only readable and accurately represented images are acceptable; the Editors reserve the option to reject figures/tables that do not satisfactorily support points made in the manuscript or that are not of satisfactory quality for publication.

Please obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) if you have include figures or tables that have been already published elsewhere.

Supplementary files
Supplementary files should be provided separately during the submission of manuscript. It should include the raw data used to draw the graphs.

Proof and Offprint
Authors are requested to regularly visit their profile on NepJOL website during peer review process. One set of page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting and editing. No major changes in the paper including the addition of new authors’ name should be made at this stage. Proof reading is solely author’s responsibility. Five offprint will be supplied free of charge. Additional offprint and copies of the issue can be ordered at discounted rate.

 Submission of Manuscript
Contributors are requested to upload electronic copy of the manuscript to the NepJOL website, as described on page 5 of the Instruction guide.

Copyright Notice

The author will be  the copyright holder of this open access journal - 'Journal of Food Science and Technology Nepal (JFSTN)'.

Privacy Statement

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More information on the type of data that is required can be found in Ubiquity Press’ privacy policy below.

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  • As part of submitting an article for publication, you will need to provide personally identifying information which will be used for the peer review process, and will be published. This can include ‘Affiliation’, ‘Competing interests’, ‘Acknowledgements’.

2.2 why we collect the data

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4.2 why we collect the data

  • Assuming that it is accepted for publication, this data forms part of the official published record in order for the provenance of the work to be established, and for the work to be correctly attributed.
  • Author names, affiliations and emails are required for publication and will become part of the permanent cited record.

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  • Any co-author data collected is added to the author database and is only used in association with the article the user is co-author on.

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  • To conform to publication ethics and best practice any personal data that is published alongside an article or book cannot be removed. If you have a query about a publication to which you are attributed please contact info@ubiquitypress.com

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(Updated: 18 May 2018)