Note: The writing rules of the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences were updated on 01.01.2023. The authors must read the information below before preparing the article, prepare the article presentation according to the format in the example (sample article template) and load the system. Articles that are not prepared in accordance with the format will not be evaluated.

Preparation of Manuscripts

Papers must be clearly written in Turkish or English. Manuscripts should be typed double spaced on A4 size paper in 12-point Times New Roman font including the references, table headings and figure captions with standard margins (2,5 cm) all around. The author's name should appear centred under the title. Numbered (1) note should give the author's institutional address and an asterisked (*) note should indicate the correspondence author’s e-mail address. Degrees and qualifications should not be included.

- In the footnote, the full and full addresses of the authors, e-mail information of the responsible author and Orcid ID numbers should be entered.
-All authors should be numbered next to each number and institution information should be included in the footnote for each number.
Line and page numbers should be given from the first page of the article.
Please prepare your typescript text using a word-processing package (save in .doc or .docx).
The complete manuscript should be in a single file containing full text, references, figures and tables. Figures and tables should be inside the manuscript placed properly (not at the end of manuscript). The line number should be given to the whole manuscript.

• Research papers and reviews must not exceed 25 manuscript pages including tables and figures (except checklists) (The editorial board has the authority to increase the number of pages when necessary and required).
• Short communications, technical notes and reports which are results of brief but significant work, must not exceed 10 manuscript pages including tables and figures.

Title page

The title must be short and concise. The first name and surname of each author should be followed by department, institution, city with postcode, and country. The e-mail address of the corresponding author should also be provided. It is editorial policy to list only one author as the corresponding author for correspondence.
It is important that authors ensure the following: (i) all names have the correct spelling and are in the correct order (first name and family name). Occasionally, the distinction between surnames and forenames can be ambiguous, and this is to ensure that the authors’ full surnames and forenames are tagged correctly, for accurate indexing online.
ORCID numbers of all article authors must be listed on the article title page. Authors who do not have an ORCID number are required to register their number at www.orcid.org.

Abstract

English and Turkish abstracts of maximum of 200 words should be included in all submissions. The Abstract should be comprehensible to readers before they have read the paper, and reference citations must be avoided. It is essential that the Abstract clearly states the legal importance of the work described in the paper. A list of keywords (maximum six) must be proposed.

Following pages

Following pages should contain the rest of the paper and should be organized into an Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. Short communication and technical notes both should follow the same layout, without the abstract. In format of systematic papers, the International Codes of Zoological and Botanical Nomenclature must be strictly followed. The first mention in the text of any taxon must be followed by its author including the year. The names of genus and species should be given in italics.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements should be kept brief and placed before the reference section.

References

Full references should be provided in accordance with the APA 6 style. The usage of reference managers as Mendeley© or Endnote© or an online reference manager as Citefast (http://www.citefast.com/) with the output style of APA 6th edition is advised in organizing the reference list.
All references must be written in English. The in-text citation to the references should be formatted as surname(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication: (Ozbay, 2004) or (Ozbay and Geldiay, 2016); For citations with more than two authors, only the first author’s name should be given, followed by “et al.” –in Turkish article ‘vd.’- and the date (Polat et al., 2019; Polat vd., 2012). If the cited reference is the subject of a sentence, only the date should be given in parentheses, i.e., Kocataş (1978), Polat et al. (2021). There should be no parentheses for the citations that the year of the citation is given in the beginning of the sentence, i.e. “In 1978, Kocataş’s study of plant ecology showed that…”

When it is needed to cite two or more works together, in-text citations should be arranged alphabetically in the same order in which they appear in the reference list, i.e. (Geldiay and Ergen, 1985; Kocataş, 2003; Thurry, 2013) or (Ozbay, 2018, 2019, 2020) or (Polat and Yıldırım, 2012a, 2012b).

All citations should be listed in the reference list, with the exception of personal communications. References should be listed alphabetically ordered by the author’s surname, or first author’s surname and if there is more than one author it should be placed at the end of the text.

Hanging indent paragraph style should be used. The year of the reference should be in parentheses after the author name(s). The correct arrangement of the reference list elements should be in order as “Author surname, first letter of the name(s). (publication date). Title of work. Publication data. DOI

Article title should be in the sentence order (first letter is uppercase), in the name of the journal, each word must begin with a capital letter. Journal titles in the Reference List must be italicized and spelled out fully; do not abbreviate titles (e.g., International Journal of Food Agriculture and Animal Sciences, not Int. J. of Food Agr. and Anim. Sci.). Article titles are not italicized. If the journal is paginated by issue the issue number should be in parentheses.

If the author is unknown, "Anonymous" should be used for the author, accept this as the author's name, for example “Anonymous, 2001”. Anonymous name should be used as the name of the author in the reference list. If the source is foreign and the author's name is unknown, it should be used as "Anonymous". For example “Anonymous, 2022”.

If there is DOI information for the sources in the bibliography, DOI information should be added to the end of the source. Do not put a dot after the added DOI information. DOI information for resources can be obtained from CrossRef © Simple Text Query Form (https://doi.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery). After copying and pasting all the sources of your article in the query box on this page, the DOI information is listed as added to the relevant sources. It is strongly recommended to provide DOI information of the sources.

The citation of journals, books, multi-author books and articles published online should conform to the following examples:

Journal Articles

Latimer, J.G. (1995). Root cell volume in the planter flat affects watermelon seedling development and fruit yield. Hort Science, 30(2): 242–246.
Ozbek, M., & Polat, E. (2017). First record of Potosia jelineki (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Eastern Black Sea (Uzungöl Lake, Trabzon) (in Turkish with English abstract). International Journal of Food Agriculture and Animal Sciences, 34(3), 341-346. DOI:10.12714/ijfaa.2017.34.3.14

Books

Parsons, T.R., Matia, Y., & Lalli, C.M. (1984). A manual of chemical and biological methods for seawater analysis. New York: Pergamon Press.
Polat, A. (2018). Studies on seed priming in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). In Advances in seed priming (209-239 pp). Springer, Singapore.

Chapter in Books

Gollasch, S. (2007). Is ballast water a major dispersal mechanism for marine organisms? In W. Nentwig (Ed.), Biological Invasions (29-57 pp). Berlin: Springer.
Ozbay, N., & Metin, R. (2020). Effects of Prohexadione-Calcium Application on Vegetative and Generative Growth of Pepper Plants. In Advances in Seed Production and Management (573-585 pp). Springer, Singapore.

Proceedings

Soultos, N., Lossifidou, E., Lazou, T., & Sergedilis, D. (2010). Prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from RTE seafoods in Thessaloniki (Northern Greece). In Ş. Çaklı, U. Çelik, C. Altınelataman (Eds.), West European Plants Technologists Association Annual Meeting 2015 (94-98 pp). İzmir, Turkey: Proceedings Book.

Online Articles

Andrews, T. (2010). What vitamins are found in plants? Retrieved from http://www.livestrong.com/article/292-what-vitamins-are-found in plant (27.11.2012).
Polat, A. (2019). Contribution to the knowledge of the Lucanidae (Coleoptera) of Turkey with a checklist. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4565.1.7 (28.11.2022).

Websites

Mitchell, J.A. (2017, May 21). How and when to reference. https://www.howandwhentoreference.com.

Tables and Figures

All illustrations, except tables, should be labeled ‘Figure’ and numbered in consecutive Arabic numbers, and referred to as Table 1, Figure 1....in the text, unless there is only one table or one figure. Each table and figure, with a concise heading or with a descriptive statement written in English -and Turkish- (only contributors who are native Turkish speakers) should be placed inside the manuscript in proper places. Tables are supposed not to exceed 175 x 227 mm. Figures, which are recommended for electronic formats such as JPEG, TIFF (min. 300 dpi) should be also arranged in mentioned dimensions. When necessary, the original copies of the figures will be asked from author(s) as separate files, after the reviewing process being concluded. Tables should be prepared by table tool in Word, tables in picture form will not be accepted.

Permissions

Authors must obtain permission from the copyright holders if they include figures, tables, or text passages that have been published elsewhere, or if they do so using software, surveys, and scales that allow it. The International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences is not responsible for obtaining these permissions and necessary costs. Such documents, materials from other sources should not be used.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Publication Ethics

In the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IJFAA), selected publications operate in a popular and reputable warehouses and stores-based organization. The studies implemented in this direction are directly reflected in the quality of the authors and the heroes supported by the authors. It is the concretization and support of peer-reviewed studies. At this point, you will not care about the participation of all processes (authors, readers and researchers, publisher, referees and editors) towards ethical principles. In the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IJFAA), within the scope of publication ethics, all participants are responsible for bearing the following ethical responsibilities.

While establishing the ethical duties and responsibilities listed below, the guides and policies published by the open access "Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)" have been prepared to be followed.

1. Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

Failure of the author(s) who submit a study to the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IJFAA) to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:

-The original existence of the slaves sent by the author(s) is preserved. If the author(s) use other equipment or do not use other works, they must be found and/or cited completely and accurately.
-People who do not contribute intellectually to the content in the creation of the work should not be listed as authors.

-All studies submitted for publication must disclose situations and relationships that may constitute a conflict of interest, if any.

-Raw data regarding their articles may be requested from the author(s) within the framework of the evaluation processes. In such a case, the author(s) should be ready to present the expected data and information to the editorial board and scientific committee.

-The author(s) must have a document showing that they have the rights to use the data used, the necessary permissions for the research/analysis, or that the consent of the experimental subjects has been obtained.

-If the author(s) notices a mistake or mistake regarding his published work, at the early appearance or evaluation stage, he has the obligation to cooperate with the editor in informing, correcting or retracting the journal editor or publisher.

-Authors cannot simultaneously send the articles they have sent to the journal for publication to other journals. A study published in another journal cannot be sent to the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences.
-Authors are obliged to comply with copyright terms regarding material taken or used from other sources and to sign the agreement stating the transfer of copyright to the journal.

-Changing the author responsibilities of a study whose evaluation process has started (such as adding authors, changing the author order, removing authors, etc.) cannot be proposed.

2. Responsibilities of Editors
International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IJFAA), chief editor and editors, "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal" published as open access by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Based on the "Editors" guidelines, they have the following ethical duties and responsibilities:

Editors are responsible for every publication published in the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences. In the context of this responsibility, editors have the following roles and responsibilities:

-Ensuring academic integrity,

-Must contribute to the development of the journal,

-Executing processes aimed at improving the quality of studies published in the journal,

-Supporting freedom of thought,
-Continuing business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards,

-Editors should make positive or negative decisions based on the importance of the studies, their original value, validity, clarity of expression and the aims and objectives of the journal,

-Studies that are suitable for the scope of publication should be taken to the preliminary evaluation stage unless there are serious problems,

-Editors should not ignore positive referee suggestions unless there is a serious problem with the study,

-"Blind Referee and Evaluation Process" must be published and editors must prevent any deviations that may occur in the defined processes,

-Authors should be notified and responded to in a descriptive and informative manner.

Stakeholder Responsibilities

1. Responsibilities of Authors

-Authors must prepare and submit their articles in accordance with the journal rules.

-Authors whose names appear in an article sent to the journal for publication are deemed to have declared that all data in the article is real and original.

-Authors are deemed to have accepted that the articles they submit will be subjected to a detailed evaluation process.
-Authors cannot simultaneously send the articles they have sent to the journal for publication to other journals.

-Authors are obliged to make any corrections requested by the referees and the editorship regarding their articles that have been subject to peer review.

-In scientific studies based on animal experiments sent for publication in the International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IJFAA); In the Materials and Methods section of the article, the statement "Local Ethics Committee approval was received" or "Local Ethics Committee principles were followed" should be included. The author(s) must indicate the institution from which they received approval and the approval number.

-Authors are obliged to comply with the copyright terms regarding material taken or used from other sources and to sign the agreement stating the transfer of copyright to the journal.

-Any responsibility arising from the articles in the journal belongs to the author(s).

-Articles determined to have used fraudulent data in any way will be rejected.

2. Duties and responsibilities of editors towards referees
-Referees should be encouraged to evaluate the work in an impartial, scientific and objective language.

-The referees should be determined in accordance with the subject of the study.

-It is responsible for providing the information and guides that the referees will need during the evaluation phase.

-It is necessary to consider whether there is a conflict of interest between the authors and the referees.

-It should determine practices and policies that increase the performance of referees.

-In the context of blind refereeing, the identity information of the referees must be kept confidential.

-Must take necessary steps to dynamically update the referee pool.

-It should prevent unkind and unscientific evaluations.

-Steps should be taken to ensure that the referee pool consists of a broad spectrum.
Editors must ensure that all editorial board members follow the processes in accordance with publication policies and guidelines. They must inform editorial board members about publication policies and keep them informed of developments. Also editors;

-Editorial board members must ensure that they evaluate the work impartially and independently.

-Editorial board members should submit studies that are appropriate to their areas of expertise for evaluation.

3. Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

-Preliminary evaluations of the articles are made by the Editorial Board.

-Articles are sent to at least two referees by the Editorial Board for evaluation. Depending on the consultant reports, the Editorial Board decides on the acceptance, rejection or revision of the articles.

-The Editorial Board cannot use the data of unpublished articles for its personal purposes and cannot share these data in any way.

-When the article evaluation process is completed, the editor forwards the decision to the responsible author.

-When deciding whether to accept or reject an article, the editor should not be affected by any conflict of interest with the person or persons named in the article.
4. Publication Ethics Issues

-Academic record integrity should be established and protected.

-When necessary, adequate corrections, clarifications or apology should be published.

Precautions against possible abuse and malfeasance

Editors; is obliged to take precautions against possible abuse and malfeasance. In addition to conducting a meticulous and objective investigation to identify and evaluate complaints regarding this situation, sharing the relevant findings is among the editor's responsibilities.

Ensuring the integrity of academic publications

Editors must ensure that errors, inconsistencies, or misleading judgments contained in studies are quickly corrected.

Protection of intellectual property rights

Editors; It is obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and the author(s) in case of possible violations. In addition, editors are obliged to take the necessary precautions to ensure that the contents of all published articles do not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.

Constructiveness and openness to discussion
Editors;

-Must take into account convincing criticisms of the works published in the journal and display a constructive attitude towards these criticisms.

-The author(s) of the criticized works should be given the right to reply.

-They should not ignore or exclude studies containing negative results.

Complaints

Editors; The author is obliged to carefully examine complaints from referees or readers and respond in an enlightening and explanatory manner.

Political and Commercial concerns

-The journal owner, publisher and any other political or commercial element do not affect the editors' independent decision-making.

5. For Your Comments and Suggestions

-You can send any questions, opinions and suggestions about our journal to the journal editor-in-chief, Assoc. Dr. It is important and valuable for us that you inform Nusret ÖZBAY (ijfaa@bingol.edu.tr) via e-mail address. Thank you for your contributions in advance.