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Journal Policies and Procedures tion of the nonscientist are encouraged to share their contributions with colleagues and to achieve wider The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) circulation of their conclusions and recommendations invites scientists from the global community to submit through this section. In addition, papers that report papers for consideration to the Journal of Dairy Sci- on advances in teaching and outreach techniques are ence (JDS). Authors need not be members of ADSA. suitable for this section. These instructions detail policies and procedures for publishing in JDS. We recommend that authors Contact Information for Journal Staff refer to these instructions, as well as the Instructions to Authors: Style and Form, during submission, peer For information on the scientific content of the jour- review, acceptance, proof correction, and final publica- nal, contact the editor-in-chief, Dr. Paul J. Kononoff; tion phases. phone: 402-472-6442; e-mail: [email protected]. For assistance with ScholarOne (Manuscript Cen- Aims and Scope tral), contact Shauna Miller, editorial assistant, Head- quarters Office, 1800 S. Oak St., Suite 100, Champaign, The Journal of Dairy Science publishes original IL 61820; phone (217) 239-3339; fax (217) 378-4083; research, invited review articles, and other scholarly [email protected]. work that relates to the production and processing of For questions about manuscript preparation, journal milk or milk products intended for consump- style and form, and proofs, contact Louise Adam, tion. The journal is broadly divided into dairy foods technical editor, at [email protected] or journals@as- and dairy production sections. The Resources and sochq.org. Environment section may include papers from either For questions about page charge invoices or offprint Dairy Foods or Dairy Production. orders, contact Vicki Paden, ADSA administrative as- sistant, at [email protected]. Dairy Foods Sections For other information, contact Susan Pollock, man- • Bioactivity and Human Health aging editor, Headquarters Office, American Dairy • Chemistry and Materials Science Science Association, 1800 S. Oak St., Suite 100, Cham- • Dairy Product Microbiology and Safety paign, IL 61820; phone (217) 356-7641; susanp@asso- • Food Systems and Environment chq.org or [email protected]. • Microbiology and Safety • Processing and Engineering Care and Use of Animals • Sensory Analysis The Journal of Dairy Science requires that all re- Dairy Production Sections search animal activity to be performed in compliance • Animal Nutrition with federal, state, and local laws and regulations. • Farm Systems and Environment The authors should state explicitly that institutional • and Genomics animal care and use (IACUC) or equivalent approval • Health, Behavior, and Well-being was obtained before commencement of the study. • Physiology Authors should make it clear that experiments were conducted in a manner that avoided unnecessary dis- In addition to the above sections, interpretive applied comfort to the animals by the use of proper manage- summaries and recommendations may be submitted ment and laboratory techniques. Experiments should to the Dairy Industry Today section. Syntheses and be conducted in accordance with the principles and applications from technical reports that contribute to specific guidelines presented in Guidelines for the solutions of problems in the dairy industry especially Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research are solicited. Authors of reports for extension educa- and Teaching, 3rd ed. (available from FASS Inc., 1800 S. Oak St., Suite 100, Champaign, IL 61820; https:// www.adsa.org/Publications/FASS2010AgGuide.aspx). 1 Revised September 2020. Methods of killing experimental animals must be

1 2 Journal of Dairy Science Instructions to Authors: Policies described in the text. When describing surgical pro- 1. Substantial contributions to the conception or cedures, the type and dosage of the anesthetic agent design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, must be specified. or interpretation of data for the work; AND 2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for Human Subjects Research important intellectual content; AND The Journal of Dairy Science requires that research 3. Final approval of the version to be published; involving human subjects (e.g., surveys, sensory pan- AND els, or other participation) complies with all appropri- 4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of ate laws, regulations, and policies (e.g., the Declaration the work in ensuring that questions related to of Helsinki) governing the use of human subjects in the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work research. The authors should state explicitly that insti- are appropriately investigated and resolved. tutional review board (IRB) or equivalent approval was To satisfy the requirement for authorship, each con- obtained before commencement of the study, including tributor must meet all 4 criteria above. Contributors the name of the IRB that granted approval. meeting fewer than the 4 criteria listed here should be Cell Culture Studies listed in the Acknowledgments section of an article. Authors are encouraged to have an ORCID identifier Studies utilizing cell culture techniques are invited, (https://orcid.org/) for disambiguation of the publica- but must satisfy two or more of the following criteria: tion record and to link their ORCID to their Scholar- (1) cell culture findings are supported by whole-animal One Manuscripts account. experimental data; (2) images of cells are provided with appropriate immunostaining to confirm the cell Plagiarism type; (3) mRNA data is supported by protein analysis; All manuscripts will be screened using plagiarism- (4) data derived from cell culture must use two differ- detection software at the time of submission and ent cell sources (e.g., primary and transformed from throughout the review and revision process. The same species, or two cell lines from different species). Journal of Dairy Science follows the guidelines For primary cell data, the origin of the cells must be of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; clearly described. https://publicationethics.org/). Reporting Guidelines Types of Articles The Journal of Dairy Science requires the submis- The Journal of Dairy Science accepts the following sion of an appropriate reporting guideline checklist types of papers: with each paper. This is a widespread practice and • Full-length research papers (including Dairy common requirement in leading scientific and medical Industry Today papers) journals. Reporting guidelines help to ensure complete • Invited reviews and accurate reporting of a study, which contributes • Symposium reviews to reproducibility and allows for critical appraisal of • Graduate student literature reviews the work, as well as eventual inclusion of the study • Letters to the editor in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Reporting For more information on the requirements for these, guidelines do not prescribe study design or analysis refer to Instructions for Authors: Style and Form. but have been shown to improve the clarity and com- pleteness of reporting. The requirement for the use of reporting guidelines begins January 1, 2021. More SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS information on the policy and its implementation can be found here: https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/ Authors should submit their papers online at Scholar content/inst-auth. One Manuscripts (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ jds). All authors of a manuscript must have an account Authorship is this system, and all accounts must be associated with your submitted manuscript. For more information The Journal of Dairy Science follows guidelines on on preparing your manuscript for submission, refer to authorship and contribution from the International Instructions for Authors: Style and Form. Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www. icmje.org/). As such, the journal recommends that au- thorship be based on the following 4 criteria:

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Original Materials scripts on the web at the time of submission. Once an author receives notification of acceptance, the peer- Data (including graphs, figures, tables, and illustra- reviewed, pre-typesetting manuscript can be posted to tions) must not have been published elsewhere except the author’s website. as abstracts, local or regional field day reports, exten- sion letters, or non-peer-reviewed, noncopyrighted Articles for Deposit and Author Self-Archiving proceedings of conferences. Authors may post abstracts of manuscripts on the web at the time of submission; Authors may deposit their peer-reviewed (pre-type- uploads to preprint servers (e.g., bioRxiv, Research set, pre-editing) manuscript into a non-commercial Square) are not permitted. Manuscripts with a digital institutional repository 12 months after publication object identifier (DOI) assigned and publicly available of their paper in an issue of the journal. Manuscripts are considered published and should not be submitted may not be uploaded to ResearchGate or SciHub. For to JDS. Material submitted to JDS should not be sub- more information on depositing and sharing your JDS mitted for publication to popular magazines, company manuscript or article, see Share your JDS Article. advertisements, or organizational proceedings until (CC By-NC-ND) the author has received notification of acceptance of the manuscript. Before manuscripts are submitted, To publish an article under an Open Access (OA) authors should have them read critically by others well CC By-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/ versed in English to facilitate review, and the senior licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), authors should contact the edi- author must have authorization to publish. All coau- torial office when their paper is accepted for publica- thors should approve the manuscript before its submis- tion. A separate licensing form and fee agreement will sion to the journal. be sent to the corresponding author of the paper for completion. For authors who choose to pay the OA fee Reproducing Published Material in Your Article instead of page charges, their paper will become freely Figures, tables, or other parts of a manuscript that available upon publication in an online issue. have previously been published or are not the property of the authors must be properly acknowledged in the OA Articles for Deposit manuscript. The authors must obtain permission to Author(s) publishing articles under OA shall bear republish these items from the person or institution sole responsibility for meeting the specific posting re- holding the copyright, usually the publisher, and pro- quirements of their funders. Upon payment of the OA vide those permissions to the journal office. fee, authors may deposit the accepted (peer-reviewed Requests to reproduce material published in JDS pre-typeset only) manuscript in a non-commercial must be made through Elsevier’s Rights Department institutional repository. Deposited articles are embar- ([email protected]), online via the goed for 12 months after publication in a journal issue Elsevier permissions page (https://www.elsevier.com/ before being released in the repository. about/our-business/policies/copyright/permissions), or via the Copyright Clearance Center (https://www. copyright.com). REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPTS Copyright Agreement Upon submission to JDS, a manuscript is assigned to a section editor, who enlists reviewers to assist in A copyright agreement is collected online from each the evaluation of the manuscript. The review process author, after a paper is accepted for publication. Au- is confidential, which infers a bond of trust among the thors who are not permitted to release copyright must authors, editor, and reviewers. The editor is trustee of complete the form and provide a statement of the rea- the manuscript until the review process is completed son for not releasing the copyright. and ensures that the review process is fair, thorough, The Association grants to the authors the right of and confidential. Reviewers are asked not to share the republication of their own material in any book, thesis, contents of the manuscript with anyone, except that or dissertation of which they are authors or editors they may ask a colleague to assist with the review with subject only to giving proper credit in the book to the approval of the editor. Communication with authors original JDS publication and only for non-commercial should only be through the editor. Reviewers should use. In addition, authors may post abstracts of manu-

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