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 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).
• 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).