The authors are cordially invited to submit their articles online in Microsoft Office Word format with a cover letter to the Toros University Journal of Food, Nutrition, and Gastronomy.

“Toros University Journal of Food, Nutrition, and Gastronomy” which started to be published in 2022 is an academic journal that carries out an international double-blind reviewing process that accepts original research articles, review articles, technical notes, and book reviews published twice a year, in June and December. All manuscripts are evaluated by the editor or section editors, editorial board and reviewers. The language of the journal is English. Turkish manuscripts are also included.

1. The submitted article should not contain any information about the authors. The corresponding author should prepare each author's name, title, institution information, full addresses, e-mail addresses, and ORCIDs as a second file other than the article file in the AUTHOR INFORMATION FORM and submit it.

2. COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORM and PLAGIARISM REPORT (iThenticate) signed by all authors should be attached while submitting the article. The review process will not be started for articles if any of these files are missing and not prepared properly.

3. Toros University Journal of Food, Nutrition and Gastronomy requires that all research involving "human" and/or "animal" elements be in compliance with the provisions and principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (2013 revision), the Council of Higher Education Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive (dated 29.08.2012 and numbered 2012.18.946), the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (www.nap.edu/catalog/5140.html), the Regulation on the Working Principles and Procedures of the Animal Experiments Ethics Committees of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs (dated 15 February 2014 and numbered 28914) and the Regulation on Clinical Research on Pharmaceuticals and Biological Products of the Ministry of Health (dated 13.04.2013 and numbered 28617). In such studies, authors must clearly state in the “Materials and Methods, Ethical Aspects of the Research” sections of their articles that the study was conducted in accordance with these rules and that they received approval from their institution’s ethics committees (with the committee name, date and number). The ethics committee decision must be uploaded as an attachment.

In addition, in studies involving a “human” element, authors must state in the “Materials and Methods - Ethical Aspects of the Research” section that “Informed Consent” was obtained from the research participants. For individuals who do not have decision-making capacity (e.g. children, unconscious patients, etc.), information must be provided that informed consent was obtained from the participant’s parents or first-degree responsible persons.

Example: This study obtained ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of ......... University with decision number …, reference number ..., and dated ../../202.... Written/verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants before initiation.

4. All files should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word format.

5. Articles can be in Turkish or English.

6. Articles should be prepared in a single column in accordance with the Article Template File.

ARTICLE TEMPLATE FILE

7. All texts should be prepared in 12-point Times New Roman font. The reference list, abstract, extended abstract (only for articles written in Turkish) should be 1 spaced and 1.15 spaced in the main text. Text should not contain indented paragraphs and paragraphs should be clarified by leaving 1 line (6pt) space. In the references list, 1 line (6pt) space should also be left between the references. (Paragraph-Indent and Spacing-Space-Before-0, After-6 pt in Office).

8. All margins of the page should be 2.5 cms.

9. The total length of any submitted article should not exceed 25 (A4) pages.

10. Line numbers must be added (Layout-Line numbers-Continuous in Microsoft Office Word). No footer, header or page number should be included.

11. In the article that does not include the author names; title, abstract, keywords, extended abstract in English if the language of the article is Turkish, main text (introduction and purpose, materials and methods, findings, discussion, conclusion, author contribution, conflict of interest, funding support if any and acknowledgment information), references and appendices should be included.

12. The title of the article should be centered above the abstract and only the first letter of the first word and proper names should be capitalized. The title should be written in Times New Roman, bold, 12 points.

13. Articles should include Turkish and English abstracts and should be on separate pages in the main text file. Turkish and English abstracts should be at least 150 and at most 250 words long for all article types. In articles written in English, the Turkish abstract should come after the English abstract, and in articles written in Turkish, the English abstract should be followed by an English abstract and then an extended English abstract of at least 1000 and at most 1200 words.

In research articles, the Abstract and abstract sections should be structured under the following subheadings: Objective, Material and Method, Results, and Conclusion. However, in reviews and case reports, summaries should be written in an unstructured manner.

14. Extended abstracts may contain figures, tables, formulations or pictures. Also, graphical abstract can be added. The extended abstract should include all the subtitles of the main text (introduction and aim, materials and method, results, discussion and conclusion). In the extended abstract of the review articles, the method of the literature review (which databases are used, what kind of sources are accessed, etc.), the aim and the general trend of the results should be briefly stated. Level 1, level 2, level 3 headings can be applied as needed (item 16). In-text citations should be made in accordance with the reference writing rules (in the next section), and the references should be the same as the main text.

15. At the end of the abstracts (Turkish and English), there should be at least three and at most five keywords selected in accordance with MESH-Medical Subject Headings (https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search). The first letter of the first keyword should be capitalized, the first letter of the other keywords should be lowercase, a comma should be used between words, and a period should be placed after the last word.

Tables can be prepared smaller than the font used throughout the text. Figures or pictures must have sufficient resolution.

Tables and graphics should be added directly.

The following rules should be followed for the articles.

No payment or consideration is requested for articles published in the journal. The editorial board assumes that the authors agree not to send the articles they submit to the journal to another journal before the evaluation process is completed. The compliance of the articles with ethical, scientific, legal and similar rules is entirely the responsibility of the authors.