About the Journal

The Applied Food Biotechnology (AFB) is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary biotechnological publication, scheduled to appear quarterly. The journal's aim is to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the related areas of biomass, metabolites, biological waste treatment, biotransformations and bioresource systems analysis, and technologies associated with conversion or production in the field of Food.

Abstracting and Indexing:

Chemical Abstracts / Index Copernicus / IMEMR / DOAJ / Biosis Previews / ISI Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded) / Journal Citation Reports / IPA / EMBASE / Scopus / EMR medex / EMRO / Iran medex / Open J-Gate / Scientific Information Database (SID) / EBSCO / ISC / Iran Journal / Google Scholar

ditorial Policies

• Focus and Scope
• Section Policies
• Peer Review Process
• Open Access Policy
• Publication ethics and malpractice statement
• Indexing & Abstracting
• Charges and Fees
• Editorial roles and responsibilities

Focus and Scope

• Biochemical Microbiology and Bioprocess Engineering (for food production, fortification, safety, etc)
• Metabolic and Genetic Engineering in Food Science
• Food Microbiology (biotechnological appraoch) 
• Microbial Nanobiotechnology in Food Science and Technology
• Microbial Biopolymers as Food Packaging Materials
• Role of Microorganisms in Waste Treatment of Food Industries
• Biodecontamination

Section Policies

Editorial

Review Article

Original Article

Short Communication

Special Issue

Editors

• Masoumeh Moslemi

Package for authors

Editors

• Masoumeh Moslemi

چکیده فارسی

Peer Review Process

1- For paper submission, author should register in journal website (http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/afb) and register. After receiving their username and password via e-mail, the authors could use the "Submit paper" link, log in, and submit their manuscript.

2- Manuscripts which are written according to the journal format (considering the format in sectioning, the number of words in abstract, references, etc.…) are referred to the related section editor. If the paper fits to the specified fields of the journal and has innovation, then it will be sent to three or more national and international referees expert in that specific field, at least two of which are out of the editorial board members (preferably one from the scientifically advanced countries). The corresponding author could also suggest potential reviewers to the journal at the time of submission. However, the editorial board reserves the right to select or refuse to use the suggested potential reviewers.

3- The reviewer comments will be sent to the corresponding author till 3 weeks.

4- After receiving the modified version of the manuscript and/or author’s answers to the reviewer questions, it will be sent to a final reviewer. If the modifications and/or answers are not adequate, it will be sent back to the corresponding author with a specified deadline to send the final corrected version.

5- The final corrected version of the manuscript is sent back to the same final reviewer. Then, the comments and the overall opinion of the final reviewer are discussed in the journal"s editorial board, and the final decision (the acceptance letter or a letter informing the author of not accepting the manuscript) will be sent to the corresponding author.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

Ethical Consideration for human and animal subjects:

1) If human subjects are used then they have to be registered with the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials website (www.irct.ir) or the related country and ethical committee of the research center or University where the study was carried out.

2) Research with human subjects should be conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the WMA Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (2008) http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html

3) The submitted manuscripts must transparently state this in their methods and materials including a statement outlining whether the study has been independently reviewed and approved by an ethical board.

4) Moreover, where human subjects are used, the informed consent explaining the nature of the procedure and possible discomforts and risks should be obtained from all patients who participated in the experimental investigation and subjects should be able to freely reject participation.

5) If animals are used, a statement protocol approval by the institutional animal care and use committee must be included. Methods section must clearly show that adequate measures were taken to minimize pain and/or distress, for example the administration of local anesthetics or general anesthesia. Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC) and in accordance with local laws and regulations governed within that country or with the guidelines laid down by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the USA regarding the care and use of animals for experimental procedures.

A: Authors

1. Publication and authorship:

• The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
• Authors should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.
• Authors should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
• Authors should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized1, and has not been published elsewhere.
• Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
• The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
• Authors must list all references used in/for the article and should not copy references from other publications if they have not read the cited work.
• Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest2 should be disclosed.

2. Author’s responsibility:

• Only people who contributed significantly to the research and/or article can be listed as ‘author’. People who contributed in a lesser role must be acknowledged as ‘contributor’.
• Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process and should follow publisher’s requirements.
• Authors should inform the editor if they withdraw their work from review or choose not to respond to reviewers comment after receiving a conditional acceptance.
• Authors should respond to reviewers’ comments in a professional and timely manner.
• Authors should use appropriate methods of data analysis and display and should state that all data in article are real and authentic.
• Authors should check their publications carefully at all stages to ensure methods and findings are reported accurately. Authors should carefully check calculations, data presentations, typescripts/submissions and proofs.
• Authors should respond appropriately to post-publication comments and published correspondence. They should attempt to answer correspondents’ questions and supply clarification or additional details where needed.
• Authors should alert the editor promptly if they discover an error in any submitted, accepted or published work. Authors should cooperate with editors in issuing corrections or retractions when required.
• Authors should work with the editor or publisher to correct their work promptly if errors or omissions are discovered after publication.

 B: Peer reviewer/ responsibility of reviewers

• The reviewers only agree to review manuscripts for which they have the subject expertise required to carry out a proper assessment and which they can assess in a timely manner.
• Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
• In reviewing an article they respect the confidentiality of process and the rights of those who submitted the articles.
• The reviewers will not use any information obtained during the peer-review process for their own or any other person’s or organization’s advantage or to disadvantage or discredit others.
• The reviewers should not have any conflict of interest and will declare all potential conflicting interests.
• They will not influenced by the origins of a manuscript, by the nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, or by commercial considerations.
• The reviewers will be objective and constructive in their reviews, refraining from being hostile or inflammatory and from making libelous or derogatory personal comments.
• They undertake to carry out their fair share of reviewing and in a timely manner.
• They will provide journals with personal and professional information that is accurate and a true representation of their expertise.

 C: Editorial Responsibilities

• The editors are accountable and take their responsibility for everything they publish and editor-in-chief has authority to reject or accept an article.
• The editor/s will make fair and unbiased decisions and should not be involved in decisions about papers in which they have a conflict of interest whether they reject or accept the article.
• The editor/s will guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct.
• The Editors will protect reviewers’ identities. However, if reviewers wish to disclose their names, this will be permitted
• The editor-in-chief will pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct.
• The editors will critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals and are responsible for ethical standards of the journal.

 D: Publishing ethics issues

• The editorial board will monitor and safeguard the publishing ethics of the journal
• The guidelines for retracting articles are as follows: - Articles that are seriously unreliable will be retracted. Redundant articles (published in other journals) will be retracted. Minor errors or authorship changes will not lead to retraction but require a correction notice.

- Notices of retraction will clearly state the reason and the retracted article will be clearly marked in all electronic versions of the journal, and a retraction notice will be published in the print copy of the journal.

• The journal will not compromise intellectual or ethical standards in favor of the business needs of the journal.
• The editorial board will maintain the integrity of the academic record of the journal.
• The editorial board will always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
• No plagiarism and no fraudulent data will be tolerated in this journal.

 Notes:

 1) Plagiarism

We accept all terms and conditions of COPE about plagiarism and in case, any attempt of plagiarism is brought to our attention accompanied with convincing evidence, we act based on flowcharts and workflows determined in COPE.

2) Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure

Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed. The disclosure of a potential conflict of interest does not necessarily exclude an article from consideration for publication; the goal of disclosure is transparency.

Any existing financial arrangements between an author and a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or between the author and any company or organization sponsoring the research reported in the submitted manuscript should be brought to the attention of the Editor at manuscript submission.

All authors must declare all sources of funding for research reported in their manuscript and report all potential conflicts of interest in separate footnotes on the manuscript title page. If an author has no conflicts of interest, the footnote should list the author's name, followed by "no conflicts of interest".

Potential conflicts of interest include:

1. Having a close relative or a professional associate with financial interest in the research outcome.
2. Serving as an officer, director, member, owner, trustee, or employee of an or as an expert witness, advisor, consultant, or public advocate (with or without compensation) on behalf of an organization with a financial interest in the outcome;
3. Receiving support, including grants, contracts or subcontracts, fellowships, consulting agreements, or gifts (eg, chemicals, experimental diets, trips) with a company or organization having a financial interest in the outcome at present, during the time the research was conducted, the near past and the near future.

Applied Food Biotechnology retains the right to reject any manuscript on the basis of unethical conduct of either human or animal studies.

Indexing & Abstracting

"Applied Food Biotechnology" is indexed at:

Web of Science™ Core Collection, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Scopus

Commission for Accreditation & Improvement of Iran Ministry of Sciences, Researches and Technologies

WHO-EMRO index Medicus

International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR)

Chemical Abstract Society (CAS)

Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Science World Index, Scientific Information Database (SID)

JournalTOCs

Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI)

Magiran

This journal is also:

available in Google Scholar

ranked in Scimago Journal & Country Rank

registered in NLM-catalog

Charges and Fees

Applied Food Biotechnology is free of charge at all steps including submission, revision, processing and publication  until the end of 2020.

For the papers submitted after Jan 2020, the processing fee would be USD 200 (5000.000 Rial for Iranian authors). In the case of fast track (decision making in 20 days), these fees would be triple.

Editorial roles and responsibilities

Each Editorial Board member plays an important role to propel the journal quality. Below is a brief description of Editor Roles and responsibilities.

• The most prerequisite point is that, the Editors should actively involve in the journal activities and events.
• Suggestion of novel ideas and providing guidance to implement them is one of the significant responsibilities.
• Should help in planning journal activities and their timely implementation.
• Should guide the journal to enhance the aim and scope.
• Should participate in the peer review process of articles sent from the Editorial office. In case of unavailability/ if the assigned article does not fall under the scope of research interest, the Editor can inform the same, so that the Editorial team searchers for an alternative that speeds up the process without delays.
• The Editor can also suggest any of his/ her colleagues' active in the related field, so that the Editorial office can approach them with the concerned reference.
• If the Editor agrees to carry out the peer review process, it should be performed in detail and required modifications need to be suggested clearly.
• The Editor should actively review the revised article and must let us know the decision to proceed for publication.
• If an Editor rejects the article for publication, he/ she should elaborate the reason for the same.
• Editors are solely responsible to ensure protection and confidentiality of the content.
• Contribution on behalf of Editors is very crucial, that greatly enables the journal to release quality and timely issues.

This journal is distributed under the terms of CC BY-NC 4.0. Copyright © 2019 Applied Food Biotechnology. All rights reserved. 

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