Instructions to Authors

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS GENERAL INFO requested to sign Declaration of Authorship and Statement Food Technology and Biotechnology is an international di- of Conflict of Interest forms and to provide all the requested amond open access journal published by the Faculty of Food details, including ORCID ID of each author (it can be obtained Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Croa- for free at https://orcid.org/), and the corresponding author is tia. It is an official journal of Croatian Society for Biotechnology obliged to upload all signed forms to Comet online submission and Slovenian Microbiological Society, financed by the Croatian system or send to [email protected]. Ministry of Science and Education, and supported by the Cro- All manuscripts are first evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief atian Academy of Sciences and Arts. and can be rejected without reviewing if considered not of suf- Food Technology and Biotechnology journal publishes orig- ficient interest or novelty, too preliminary or out of scope of inal scientific papers, preliminary communications, scientific the Journal. If the manuscript is considered suitable for further notes, reviews and minireviews. It covers the topics of biopro- evaluation, it is first sent to the Field editor. Based on his/her cess engineering, molecular biotechnology, molecular biology, opinion the paper is either rejected or evaluated further. Before genetic engineering, applied biochemistry, applied microbiol- reviewing, each manuscript is run through iThenticate plagia- ogy including food microbiology, food processing techniques rism detection software to verify the originality and ensure the and technologies, food science, novel aspects of food analysis quality of the written work. Authors should take care not to methods, nutritional aspects of food production and analysis, exceed the limit of 20 % of overlapping with previously pub- and waste treatment in food and biotechnological production. lished papers and no more than 3 % with the individual source, Conference papers can only be taken into consideration which must be cited. Papers with high degree of overlapping when they are organized by one of the institutions that closely with previously published data (even in the case of self-plagia- collaborate with the publisher and they undergo the same eval- rism) will be rejected without reviewing. Papers which are suit- uation process as regular papers. Conference papers already able for reviewing process are sent to at least two impartial published in proceedings will not be considered at all. reviewers. As soon as the reviews are uploaded to the system, Food Technology and Biotechnology is indexed in Current the Editor brings a decision about the possible acceptance of Contents®/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Scienc- the manuscript. The reviews are then sent to the authors via es and other databases, such as Web of Science (WoS) Core online submission system and if the reviews are positive, the Collection, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Biolog- authors are expected to submit the revised version within the ical Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Food Science and Technology timeframe given by the system. If authors cannot resubmit the Abstracts (FSTA), Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Ab- revised manuscript within this period, they should contact the stracts, Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index, CAB Abstracts, Editor at [email protected] to discuss the possibility of extending the PubMed Central® (PMC), Biotechnology Research Abstracts, deadline for resubmission, or otherwise uploading it as a new Business Source Premier, Central & Eastern European Academ- manuscript after all the changes requested by reviewers have ic Source (CEEAS), Ei Compendex, Environment Index, Veteri- been made. Authors are obliged to submit a new cover letter nary Science Database, Business Source Elite, VINITI, VITIS-VEA, with each revised version together with the extensive reply to Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), HRČAK and J-Gate. each reviewer's comment taxatively. If during the revision a All published papers are peer-reviewed (see chapter Edi- change in authorship (addition or removal of author) has oc- torial Process) and posted online as soon as they are accept- curred, authors are requested to clarify the reason for change, ed (first in an unedited form ahead of print and then in the fi- and all authors (including the removed/added ones) need to nal form after printing). The content of the Journal is available submit a written consent for the change. Authors added during online free of charge and there are no publication charges. the process of evaluation must also submit filled in and signed Declaration of Authorship, and Statement of Conflict of Interest. The revised version is evaluated by the Editor and/or re- EDITORIAL PROCESS viewers and the Editor-in-Chief brings a decision as soon as All contributions are evaluated according to the criteria possible about final acceptance based on their suggestions. If of originality and quality of their scientific content. The man- necessary, further revision can be asked for to fulfil all the re- uscript needs to be prepared strictly according to the Journal’s quirements of the reviewers. When a manuscript is accepted instructions and proofed by a native English speaker or some- for publication, an official letter of acceptance is sent to the cor- one proficient in English. Manuscripts which do not conform responding author, the manuscript is assigned a doi number, to these standards will be returned immediately without enter- posted online in an unedited version (in the category Advanced ing the reviewing process, or any further processing at all. All online publication of articles) and deposited in CrossRef with papers should be submitted via Comet-FTB online submission the assigned doi number. After that, changes of authors of the system (at www.ftb.com.hr). Manuscripts sent by e-mail will not manuscript are not possible. be considered for publication. If the upload is successful, the Before printing, a linguistic, metrological and technical re- corresponding author will receive a confirmation e-mail with a vision is made, at which stage the authors are asked to make reference number assigned to the paper, which he/she is asked the final corrections in no more than a week. All the corrections to quote in all subsequent correspondence. Each co-author is suggested by the editors should be made. The final version January-March 2020 | Vol. 58 | No. 1 103 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS is then sent to the printer’s office and the authors receive the Authors can track the manuscript status by signing in as an galley proof for final check before printing. The authors are ex- existing user. When the evaluation process is completed, the pected to correct only typographical errors on the proofs. Any corresponding author will receive an e-mail containing re- changes in the text (additions etc.) at that stage will be made at viewers’ comments and/or editor’s decision, after which the author’s expense. The proofs have to be returned to the Editorial author can sign in to the Comet system and download attach- Office within 24 hours. After printing, all manuscripts are post- ments if any. If the authors do not wish to submit the revised ed online as pdf files in the final form and indexed in databases. version of the manuscript, they should cancel the submission through the online submission system (COMET) and notify SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE the editors at [email protected]. The revised version of the paper should be re-uploaded Before submission, authors are required to read the Instruc- through the online submission system, together with the tions to authors carefully and prepare the manuscript accord- reply to the reviewers and the letter to the Editor-in-Chief ingly. For manuscript submission, the corresponding author in which all other changes such as of authorship or affiliation needs first to sign up to COMET-FTB online submission sys- need to be reported. All the changes made in the revised man- tem (at http://comet.sdewes.org/ftb/) as a new user, unless the uscript must be either highlighted, written in different col- author has used the system before. After signing up, the author our or using Track changes. In reply to the reviewers, authors will receive a confirmation e-mail with the registration infor- need to explain how they addressed each point given by the mation. Upon registration, personal data should be entered, reviewer. If the manuscript is not revised according to all sug- together with ORCID ID. All fields marked by asterisk (*) are gestions of the reviewers, it will be rejected without possibil- mandatory. For each subsequent submission by the same au- ity of resubmission. thor, the existing username and password need to be used. When submitting the manuscript, first the submission ti- tle should be written and the type of submission should be AUTHORSHIP selected. Then all co-authors should be added (once again, all The individual contribution of each author must be stat- fields marked with asterisk are mandatory). Afterwards, sum- ed in the cover letter (at the submission) and at later stage in mary (max. 250 words) and key words (no more than 6 words) the Declaration of Authorship. An author can be someone who should be written. Entire manuscript should be uploaded with substantially contributed to the idea or design of the research, tables and figures inserted at the end of the text. Figures should acquisition of data, analysis or interpretation of data, was in- also be uploaded in an editable (vector) format (.eps, .xls, .svg volved in drafting, writing or revising the paper critically for or similar). For each document upload, handle (e.g. letter, man- important intellectual content. Other contributors should be uscript, Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.) should be chosen. mentioned in the Acknowledgements and cannot be consid- Cover letter containing full names (with underlined sur- ered as authors of the work.

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