Journal Policies

The International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences (IJFANS) is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of food science, nutrition, and allied disciplines. The journal provides an academic platform for researchers, academicians, and professionals to publish original research, reviews, and scholarly articles that contribute to scientific understanding and practical applications.

IJFANS is published on a Quarterly basis and follows a rigorous peer-review process to ensure the quality, originality, and integrity of published content. The journal is multidisciplinary in nature and accepts manuscripts from a broad range of subject areas related to food, nutrition, health, agriculture, biotechnology, and allied sciences.

The journal operates on a multilingual basis, encouraging global participation and the dissemination of research across diverse academic and geographic communities.

IJFANS is committed to ethical publishing practices, transparency, and continuous improvement, with the objective of enhancing its global visibility and meeting international indexing and evaluation standards.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Ethics of Publication

  • The avoidance of the risk of plagiarism and respect for intellectual property;
  • Respect for the rights of human subjects in research;
  • The identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct;
  • The identification of and dealing with manipulations of citations;
  • The disclosure of any conflicts of interest.

In particular: researchers, authors, sponsors, editors and publishers all have ethical obligations with regard to the publication and dissemination of the results of research. Sources of funding, institutional affiliations and conflicts of interest must be declared in the publication.

Privacy Policy

Manuscripts will be reviewed with due respect for authors’ and reviewers' confidentiality. Our editors have been instructed to not disclose information about manuscripts (including their receipt, content, status in the reviewing process, criticism by reviewers, or ultimate fate) to anyone other than the authors and reviewers. Manuscripts sent for review are privileged communications. Therefore, reviewers and members of the editorial staff must respect the authors’ rights by not publicly discussing the authors’ work or appropriating their ideas before the manuscript is published. Reviewers may not make copies of the manuscript for their files and will not share it with others, except with the editor’s permission. Reviewers should return or destroy copies of manuscripts after submitting reviews

Copyright and licensing

  • Authors must retain copyright for their work. However, by submitting the manuscript, authors grant International Journal of food and nutritional Sciences the right to publish the work and distribute it under the terms of the [Creative Commons License Type, e.g., CC BY 4.0].
  • Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any copyrighted material used in the manuscript (e.g., images, figures, tables) and must credit the original source appropriately.

Author's Rights and Obligations

Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.

For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.

Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative.

Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants

All research involving animals submitted for publication must be approved by an ethics committee with oversight of the facility in which the studies were conducted. The journal has adopted the Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare for Veterinary Journals published by the International Association of Veterinary Editors.

Conflict of Interest Policy

Articles would be published with statements or supporting documents declaring:

  • Authors’ conflicts of interest
  • Sources of support for the work, including sponsor names along with explanations of the role of those sources if any in study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the report; the decision to submit the report for publication; or a statement declaring that the supporting source had no such involvement.
  • After initial approval by the editor, Completed submission is sent out to two or three reviewers.
  • Whether the authors had access to the study data, with an explanation of the nature and extent of access, including whether access is on-going.

To support the above statements, editors may request that authors of a study sponsored by a funder with a proprietary or financial interest in the outcome sign a statement, such as “I had full access to all of the data in this study and I take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.”