Food Analytical Methods accepts original research, reviews, and brief communications. Brief communications should be no longer than 1,000 words with abstracts of no more than 50 words.
Manuscripts are to be submitted in their final form. Papers must be written in English, and authors are urged to aim for clarity, brevity, and accuracy of information and language. Authors whose first language is not English should have their papers checked for linguistic accuracy by a native English speaker.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the following format and sequence:
TITLE PAGE: containing 1) a short running head of no more than 40 characters (count letters and spaces), 2) first name, middle initial, last name of each author, 3) Institutions with full addresses for each author, 4) name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript, and 5) disclaimers, if any.
ABSTRACT: of not more than 250. The abstract should state the purpose of the study or investigation, basic procedures (study subjects and analytical methods), main findings (give specific data and their statistical significance, if possible), and the principal conclusions. Emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observation and use only approved abbreviations.
KEY WORDS: Provide and identify as such, up to six key words that will assist indexers in cross-indexing your article and that may be published with the structured abstract.
TEXT, arranged in the order:
1) INTRODUCTION-clearly state the purpose of the article. Summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Give only strictly pertinent references, and do not review the subject extensively,
2) MATERIALS AND METHODS-describe your selection of the observational or experimental subjects clearly. Identify the methods, apparatus (manufacturer鈥檚 name and address in parenthesis), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods; provide references and brief descriptions of methods that have been published but are not well-known, describe substantially modified methods, including statistical methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations,
3) RESULTS-present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and figures. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables and/or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations,
4) DISCUSSION-emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data given in the Results section. Include in the Discussion the implications of the findings and their limitations and relate the observations to other relevant studies. Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by your data. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such. Recommendations, when appropriate, may be included,
5) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS- can be made to the source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment drugs, or all of these; colleagues and members of a laboratory who provided unpublished data or assisted with the review, etc.
REFERENCES: The author is responsible for the accuracy of the references. Citations in the text should be identified by superior Arabic numerals without parentheses and the list of the references at the end of the paper should be numbered consecutively in the order they are first mentioned in the text. Authors should identify references in the text, tables, and legends. Only works referred to in the text and already accepted for publication can be included. Authors should use the form of references adopted by the American Physical Society. For seven or more authors please list the first three authors followed by et al.
1 H. Hegger, C. Petrovic, E.G. Moshopoulou, M.F. Hundley, J.L.
Sarrao, Z. Fisk, and J.D. Thompson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4986 (2000).
2 C. Petrovic, R. Movshovich, M. Jaime, P.G. Pagliuso, M.F. Hundley, J.L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, and J.D. Thompson, Europhys. Lett. 84, 354 (2001).
3 C. Petrovic, P.G. Pagliuso, M.F. Hundley, R. Movshovich, J.L.
Sarrao, J.D. Thompson, and Z. Fisk, Z. Phys. B: Condens. Matter 13, L337 (2001).
4 W. Bao, P.G. Pagliuso, J.L. Sarrao, J.D. Thompson, Z. Fisk, J.W.
Lynn, and R.W. Erwin, Phys. Rev. B 62, R14 621 (2000).
TABLES: Each table should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by lower-case superscript letters. If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge fully.
LEGENDS: Legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the figures and tables in no more than four or five lines. Remarks such as 鈥淔or explanation, see text鈥?should be avoided. The legends should be typed double-spaced on a separate page. When symbols, arrows, numbers or letters are used to identify parts of the illustration, identify and explain each one clearly.
FIGURES: Figures should be limited to those essential for the text. The same results should be presented as either the graph or tables, not as both. Color may be used without charge for the electronic edition of the journal if files are supplied but will appear in the printed version at the author鈥檚 expense: $1150 per article.