The Publisher’s Guidelines and Standards for the FHHD Journal
1. Members of the management team and where they are based (http://ffhdj.com/index)
2. Editorial Policies
(https://ffhdj.com/index.php/ffhd/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope):
Submission process: Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.
To facilitate rapid publication and to minimize administrative costs, Functional Foods in Health and Disease accepts only electronic submission. Files can be submitted as a batch, or one by one. Submit manuscript at http://ffhdj.com/index or send as an e-mail attachment to the Editorial Office at editor@ffhdj.com
Please provide a cover letter and use this to explain why your manuscript should be published in the journal and to elaborate on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors. Assistance with the process of manuscript preparation and submission is available from the customer support team: editor@ffhdj.com. Please click here to see journal cover letter.
Please see our sample article for reviews and research. While it is not evident in the sample abstract, please include the email addresses of all co-authors in the section Author's Contributions. This is mandatory and for our records only; it will not be published in the final version.
Publication and peer review processes: Functional Foods in Health and Disease uses online peer review to speed up the publication process. The time taken to reach a final decision depends on whether reviewers request revisions, and how quickly authors are able to respond. Average turn around time is 60 days from submission, with immediate publication following. The peer review process takes about 2-4 weeks. Articles are published monthly.
The ultimate responsibility for any decision lies with the Editor(s)-in-Chief, to whom any appeals against rejection should be addressed.
Article-processing charges: Functional Foods in Health and Disease levies an article-processing charge for every accepted article, to cover the costs incurred by open access publication. From April 1, 2020, the article-processing charge will be changed to $1095. Once an article has been generally accepted and sent back to the author, he/she must make the proper payment within 10 calendar days. Discounts and waivers may be granted, particularly for authors from developing countries, but should be discussed at the same time the full article is submitted. Once an article has been published, no significant changes can be made to the article. Grammatical errors and similar edits will be considered, but any changes related to content of the article would violate the ethics of the peer-review process. Moreover, the journal will charge 199.00 US dollars for any changes needed to be made after the article has been published.
Editorial policies: Any manuscripts or substantial parts of it, submitted to the journal must not be under consideration by any other journal. In general, the manuscript should not have already been published in any journal or other citable form, although it may have been deposited on a preprint server. The journal is willing to consider peer-reviewing manuscripts that are translations of articles originally published in another language. In this case, the consent of the journal in which the article was originally published must be obtained and the fact that the article has already been published must be made clear on submission and stated in the abstract. Authors are required to ensure that no material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights or the rights of a third party. Authors who publish in Functional Foods in Health and Disease retain copyright to their work. Correspondence concerning articles published in Functional Foods in Health and Disease is encouraged.
Submission of a manuscript to Functional Foods in Health and Disease implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that any experimental research that is reported in the manuscript has been performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee. Research carried out on humans must be in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration, and any experimental research on animals must follow internationally recognized guidelines. A statement to this effect must appear in the Methods section of the manuscript, including the name of the body which gave approval, with a reference number where appropriate. Informed consent must also be documented. Manuscripts may be rejected if the editorial office considers that the research has not been carried out within an ethical framework, e.g., if the severity of the experimental procedure is not justified by the value of the knowledge gained.
We recommend authors refer to the PubMed Central website for further information on the editorial policies.
3. Preparing main manuscript text
File formats: The following word processor file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:
- Microsoft Word (Version 2.0 and above)
- Rich text format (RTF)
- Portable document format (PDF)
Note that figures, diagrams, tables, etc. should be incorporated within the text. This makes the peer-review process go forward more smoothly.
Article types: The following types of articles we are accepting for the publication:
- Research
- Review
- Case Report
- Short Report.
Please read the descriptions of each of the article types, in the fallowing links of the PubMed Central website:
Choose which is appropriate for your article and structure it accordingly. If in doubt, your manuscript should be classified as Research, the structure for which is described below.
Manuscript sections for Research articles: Manuscripts for Research articles submitted to Functional Foods in Health and Disease should be divided into the following sections:
- Title page
- Abstract
- Background
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- List of abbreviations used (if any)
- Competing interests
- Authors' contributions
- Authors' information (if any)
- Acknowledgements and Funding
- References
- Figure legends (if any)
- Tables and captions (if any)
- Description of additional data files (if any)
Manuscripts for Review articles should be divided into the following sections:
- Title page
- Abstract
- Review
- Conclusions
- List of abbreviations used (if any)
- Competing interests
- Authors' contributions
- Acknowledgements and Funding
- References
- Figure legends (if any)
- Tables and captions (if any)
- Description of additional data files (if any)
Please read the descriptions of each of the article types choose which is appropriate for your article and structure it accordingly. If in doubt, your manuscript should be classified as Research, the structure for which is described below.
4. Structure for Reseach Manuscript
Title page: This should list the title of the article. The title should include the study design.
The full names, institutional addresses, and e-mail addresses for all authors must be included on the title page. The corresponding author should also be indicated.
Abstract: The abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 350 words and must be structured into separate sections: Background, the context and purpose of the study; Results, the main findings; Conclusions, brief summary and potential implications. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract. Trial Registration, if your research article reports the results of a controlled health care intervention, please list your trial registry, along with the unique identifying number, e.g. Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN73824447. Please note that there should be no space between the letters and numbers of your trial registration number.
Background: The background section should be written from the standpoint of researchers without specialist knowledge in that area and must clearly state - and, if helpful, illustrate - the background to the research and its aims. Reports of clinical research should, where appropriate, include a summary of a search of the literature to indicate why this study was necessary and what it aimed to contribute to the field. The section should end with a very brief statement of what is being reported in the article.
Methods: This should include the design of the study, the setting, the type of participants or materials involved, a clear description of all interventions and comparisons, and the type of analysis used, including a power calculation if appropriate.
Results and Discussion: The Results and Discussion may be combined into a single section or presented separately. Results of statistical analysis should include, where appropriate, relative and absolute risks or risk reductions, and confidence intervals. The results and discussion sections may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.
Conclusions: This should state clearly the main conclusions of the research and give a clear explanation of their importance and relevance. Summary illustrations may be included.
List of abbreviations: If abbreviations are used in the text, they should be defined in the text where first used, and a list of abbreviations can be provided, which should precede the competing interests and authors' contributions.
Competing interests: A competing interest exists when your interpretation of data or presentation of information may be influenced by your personal or financial relationship with other people or organizations. Authors should disclose any financial competing interests but also any non-financial competing interests that may cause them embarrassment were they to become public after the publication of the manuscript. For more detail information on this subject, please visit the following PubMed Central web page.
Authors' contributions: In order to give appropriate credit to each author of a paper, the individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section. For more detail information on this subject, please visit the following PubMed Central web page.
Authors' information: You may choose to use this section to include any relevant information about the author(s) that may aid the reader’s interpretation of the article, and understand the standpoint of the author(s). This may include details about the authors' qualifications, current positions they hold at institutions or societies, or any other relevant background information. Please refer to authors using their initials. Note this section should not be used to describe any competing interests.
Acknowledgements and Funding: Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the study by making substantial contributions to conception, design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content, but who does not meet the criteria for authorship.
References: All references must be numbered consecutively, in square brackets, in the order in which they are cited in the text, followed by any in tables or legends.
Only articles and abstracts that have been published or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list, but may be included in the text and referred to as "unpublished data", "unpublished observations", or "personal communications" giving the names of the involved researchers. Notes/footnotes are not allowed. Obtaining permission to quote personal communications and unpublished data from the cited author(s) is the responsibility of the author. Journal abbreviations follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE. Citations in the reference list should contain all named authors, regardless of how many there are.
Examples of the Functional Foods in Health and Disease reference style are shown below. Please take care to follow the reference style precisely; references not in the correct style may be retyped, necessitating tedious proofreading.
Links: Web links and URLs should be included in the reference list. They should be provided in full, including both the title of the site and the URL, in the following format: The Mouse Tumor Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do]
Functional Foods in Health and Disease reference style:
Article within a journal: 1. Mardunts EV, Orengo SF, Bork P: BRCA1 protein products: functional motifs. Nat Genet 1997, 13:266-267.
Article within a journal supplement: 2. Ivanov CA, Bray JE, Lee T, LoConte L.: Analysis and assessment of ab initio three-dimensional prediction, secondary structure, and contacts prediction. Proteins 1998, 43(Suppl 3):149-170.
In press article: 3. Burger SA, Barnes PJ: Clinical aspects of exhaled nitric oxide. Eur Respir J, in press.
Published abstract: 4. Taylor NJ, Burger JA, Marinova-Mutafchieva L, Maini RN: Mesenchymal cells, stromal derived factor-1 and rheumatoid arthritis [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 1998, 42:s250.
Article within conference proceedings: 5. Barnes X: Zeolites and synthetic mechanisms. In Proceedings of the First National Conference on Porous Sieves: 27-30 June 1996; Baltimore. Edited by Smith Y. Stoneham: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1997:16-27.
Book chapter or article within a book: 6. Johnston E: From prey via endosymbiont to plastids: comparative studies in dinoflagellates. In Origins of Plastids. Volume 2. 2nd edition. Edited by Lewin RA. New York: Chapman and Hall; 1992:53-76.
Whole issue of journal: 7. Mardunts B, Johnston S.: Innovative oncology. In Breast Cancer Res 1997, 10:1-72.
Whole conference proceedings: 8. Margolis (Ed): Proceedings of the First National Conference on Porous Sieves: 27-30 June 1999; Baltimore. Stoneham: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1999.
Complete book: 9. Martirosyan D: Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1989.
Monograph or book in a series: 10. Das GW, Gadek JE: The alveolar macrophage. In Cultured Human Cells and Tissues. Edited by Harris TJR. New York: Academic Press; 1999:54-56. [Stoner G (Series Editor): Methods and Perspectives in Cell Biology, vol 1.]
Book with institutional author: 11. Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification: Annual Report. London; 1998.
Ph.D. thesis: 12. Taylor R: Wrappers for performance enhancement and oblivious decision graphs. Ph.D. thesis. Stanford University, Computer Science Department; 1999.
Link / URL: 13. The Mouse Tumor Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do]
Preparing illustrations and figures: Note that figures, diagrams, tables with a portrait, not landscape orientation, etc. should be incorporated within the text. This makes the peer-review process go forward more smoothly.
Formats: The following file formats can be accepted:
- EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
- PDF (also especially suitable for diagrams)
- PNG (preferred format for photos or images)
- Microsoft Word (figures must be a single page)
- TIFF
- JPEG
Figure legends: For each figure, the following information should be provided: Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e., Figure 1, 2, 3 etc); short title of figure (maximum 15 words); detailed legend, up to 300 words.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have previously been published elsewhere.
Preparing tables: Each table should be numbered in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e., Table 1, 2, 3 etc.). Tables should also have a title that summarizes the whole table, maximum 15 words. Detailed legends may then follow, but should be concise.
Smaller tables considered to be integral to the manuscript can be pasted into the document text file. These will be typeset and displayed in the final published form of the article. Such tables should be formatted using the 'Table object' in a word processing program to ensure that columns of data are kept aligned when the file is sent electronically for review; this will not always be the case if columns are generated by simply using tabs to separate text. Commas should not be used to indicate numerical values. Color and shading should not be used.
Larger datasets can be uploaded separately as additional files. Additional files will not be displayed in the final, published form of the article, but a link will be provided to the files as supplied by the author.
Tabular data provided as additional files can be uploaded as an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) or comma separated values (.csv). As with all files, please use the standard file extensions.
Style and language: Currently, Functional Foods in Health and Disease can only accept manuscripts written in English. Spelling should be US English or British English, but not a mixture. Gene names should be in italic, but protein products should be in plain type.
There is no explicit limit on the length of articles submitted, but authors are encouraged to be concise. There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or additional files that can be included with each article online. Figures and tables should be sequentially referenced. Authors should include all relevant supporting data with each article.
Functional Foods in Health and Disease will not edit submitted manuscripts for style or language; reviewers may advise rejection of a manuscript if it is compromised by grammatical errors. Authors are advised to write clearly and simply, and to have their article checked by colleagues before submission. In-house copyediting will be minimal. Non-native speakers of English may choose to make use of a copyediting service.
Help and advice on scientific writing: The abstract is one of the most important parts of a manuscript. For guidance, please visit the following BioMed Central page on "Writing titles and abstracts for scientific articles."
Abbreviations: Abbreviations should be used as sparingly as possible. They can be defined when first used or a list of abbreviations can be provided preceding the acknowledgments and references.
Typography
- Capitalize only the first word, and proper nouns, in the title.
- Please use double line spacing.
- Type the text unjustified, without hyphenating words at line breaks.
- All pages should be numbered.
- Use the Functional Foods in Health and Disease reference format.
- Footnotes to text should not be used.
- Greek and other special characters may be included. If you are unable to reproduce a particular special character, please type out the name of the symbol in full. Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text, otherwise they will be lost during conversion to PDF.
- Genes, mutations, genotypes, and alleles should be indicated in italics, and authors are required to use approved gene symbols, names, and formatting. Protein products should be in plain type.
Please see our sample article.
Copyright: Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published before or under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.
Please review our Submission Checklist and accept the Terms and Conditions prior to submitting your article. Failure to do so will result in a delay in acceptance of your manuscript submission.
5. Submission Checklist for The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD)
Thank you for deciding to publish your article with Functional Foods in Health and Disease. Our journal, Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD), accepts manuscript submissions specifically pertaining to functional foods and bioactive compounds. To receive a response as quickly as possible, please read the checklist below very carefully, and confirm that you completed our submission criteria. If you have questions about the criteria, please contact us at editor@ffhdj.com
- Email Addresses: Do you have a list of the correct email addresses for all manuscript authors? This information is necessary to confirm receipt, acceptance, and publishing information with all contributors.
- Instructions for Authors and Peer Review Policy: Please be sure to read our instructions for authors and verify that all information has been included properly in your manuscript. Incorrect information or formatting will result in a substantial delay in publishing time.
- Cover Letter and Peer Review Process: All submissions must be prefaced with a cover letter explaining the importance of your topic, its relevance to the main focus of our journal, FFHD, and elaborating on any applicable special circumstances. Your cover letter or submission email should also include the full names, titles, governing organization, and contact information for 5 qualified peers who may be selected to assist with the peer review process.
- Manuscript Files and Attachments: All attachments must be included in the correct format. FFHD will not convert your files or reorganize incorrectly coordinated submissions. The preferred format for manuscript submissions is Microsoft Word .doc with figures and tables embedded in the designated area, as described in our instruction page for authors.
- Publishing Fees: An article processing fee of $1295 for FFHD and $1095 for BCHD will apply for every submission to cover costs associated with publication. Once the author has received an emailed notification of general acceptance, payment must be completed within 7 days. Article processing charge discounts or waivers may be applied on a case-by-case basis to authors with financial hardships. To apply for a waiver or discount, please contact the editorial team at editor@ffhdj.com. A decision will be made within approximately 3 business days. Submission of the article to the journal may be delayed until a final fee for the author has been decided. However, the content of your article may assist in the editor’s decision. Any applicable article processing charge must be paid prior to publication.
- Corresponding Authors: Only a contributing author(s) may submit a manuscript for publication. Submissions by a third party on behalf of any author will not be accepted. The corresponding author assumes responsibility for payment and therefore must be a contributor of the original manuscript.
- Terms and Conditions of Submission to Functional Foods in Health and Disease: Do you confirm that all contributing authors of the manuscript have read and authorized the submission of the article, all included content is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, and that you have ethical approval for any human or animal experimentation (for more information see our Instructions for Authors)? Do you confirm that the manuscript is original, has not already been published in any other journal, and is not currently under consideration by any other publication? By clicking the button below, you confirm the accuracy of your manuscript and agree to the terms summarized here, described in detail in our instructions for authors.
Yes, I am the corresponding author of this article and I accept the terms and conditions of submission of the journal Functional Foods in Health and Disease.
You, the submitting author, assume financial responsibility for the costs associated with publishing this manuscript and promise to complete the necessary payment arrangements within 7 days of general acceptance.
Thank you for choosing Functional Foods in Health and Disease. Our journal, Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD), accepts manuscript submissions specifically pertaining to functional foods and bioactive compounds. In order to receive a response as quickly as possible, please read the checklist below very carefully and verify that you have satisfied our submission criteria. If you have questions about the criteria, please contact editor@ffhdj.com
- Email Addresses: Do you have a list of the correct email addresses for all authors of the manuscript? This information is necessary in order to confirm receipt, acceptance, and publishing information with all contributors.
- Instructions for Authors and Peer Review Policy: Please be sure to read our instructions for authors and verify that all information has been included properly in your manuscript. Incorrect information or formatting will result in a substantial delay in publishing time.
- Cover Letter and Peer Review Process: All submissions must be prefaced with a cover letter explaining the importance of your topic, its relevance to the main focus of our journal, FFHD, and elaborating on any special circumstances if applicable. Your cover letter or submission email should also include the full names, titles, governing organization, and contact information for 5 qualified peers who may be selected to assist with the peer review process.
- Manuscript Files and Attachments: All attachments must be included in the correct format. FFHD will not convert your files or reorganize incorrectly coordinated submissions. The preferred format for manuscript submissions is Microsoft Word .doc with figures and tables embedded in the designated area as described in our instruction page for authors.
- Publishing Fees: An article processing fee of $1295 for FFHD and $1095 for BCHD will apply for every submission to cover costs associated with publication. Once the author receives an emailed notification of general acceptance, payment must be completed within 7 days. Article processing charge discounts or waivers may be applied on a case-by-case basis to authors with financial hardships. To apply for a waiver or discount, please contact the editorial team at editor@ffhdj.com. A decision will be made within approximately 3 business days. Submission of the article to the journal may be delayed until a final fee for the author has been decided. However, the content of your article may assist in the editor’s decision. Any applicable article processing charge must be paid prior to publication.
- Corresponding Authors: Only a contributing author may submit a manuscript for publication. Submissions sent by a third party on behalf of any of the authors will not be accepted. The corresponding author assumes responsibility for payment and therefore must be a contributor of the original manuscript.
- Terms and Conditions of Submission to Functional Foods in Health and Disease: Do you confirm that all contributing authors of this manuscript have read and authorized the submission of this article, all included content is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, and you have ethical approval for any human or animal experimentation (for more information see our Instructions for Authors)? Do you confirm that the manuscript is original, has not already been published in any other journal, and is not currently under consideration by any other publication? By clicking the button below, you are confirming the accuracy of your manuscript and agreeing to the terms summarized here and described in detail in our instructions for authors.
Yes, I am the corresponding author of this article. I accept the terms and conditions of submission of the journal Functional Foods in Health and Disease.
You, the submitting author, assumes financial responsibility for the costs associated with publishing this manuscript and promises to complete the necessary payment arrangements within 7 days of general acceptance.
Yes, I accept to the terms and conditions of FFHD
6. Editorial and Peer Review Processes (http://ffhdj.com/index)
The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD) considers publication ethics to be of the utmost importance. In order to uphold the scientific integrity of our journal, we are committed to maintaining high standards of honesty and accuracy in each and every one of our publications. Unethical practices such as plagiarism and falsification of data are not tolerated.
We have outlined below the duties and responsibilities of each major party in the publication process including: editors, authors, and reviewers. This statement was based on the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Editors’ Responsibilities
- Publication Decisions: After reading comments by the editorial review board, the editor may accept, reject, or suggest changes to the manuscript.
- Review of Manuscripts: He/she must perform an initial review of the manuscript in order to check for originality. Then, the editor should send the manuscript in blind peer review form to the editorial board, who at this point, may accept, reject, or suggest changes to the manuscript.
- Unbiased Review: The editor must review manuscripts based solely on intellectual and scientific content, and not be swayed by authors
- Confidentiality: Prior to publication, manuscripts and related information must be kept confidential.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: FFHD editors may not publish and/or submit manuscript material as his or her own work without the author(s)’ written consent.
Author’s Responsibilities
- Reporting Standards: Author’s manuscripts should be an accurate account of their research methods, results, followed by an objective empirical discussion. Manuscripts should follow the guidelines dictated on the FFHD website: https://ffhdj.com/index.php/ffhd/about/submissions
- Originality: Authors must take care to describe only their original work in their manuscripts.
- Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications: Authors should not submit identical manuscripts or descriptions of the same research to more than one journal simultaneously.
- Acknowledgement of Sources: Authors should acknowledge and/or cite all sources that contributed to the manuscript, influenced its research, or helped with its completion.
- Authorship: Individuals should be named authors only if they made significant contributions to manuscript conception, design, completion, or analysis. Other significant contributors must be named as co-authors.
- Data Access and Retention: Authors should provide original data to FFHD as well as keep copies of this data for reference.
- Fundamental Errors in Published Works: If the author(s) discovers a significant error in their submitted manuscript, he/she must report the error to the FFHD editor.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
- Confidentiality: Reviewers must keep all manuscript information confidential prior to publication.
- Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should ensure that authors acknowledge all relevant sources used in the study. If reviewers notice suspicious similarity of information between current or prior manuscripts, it must be reported to FFHD’s editor.
- Objectivity: Manuscript feedback should be scientifically objective, without bias, clear, and supported by arguments.
- Promptness: If a reviewer believes that he/she will not be able to thoroughly read a manuscript within the required time frame, he/she must report this to the FFHD editor so that the editor can find a replacement reviewer.
References
"Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement." AACE. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2013. Web. 27 May 2015.
Peer-Review Policies
What is Peer Review? Peer review is a central part of publishing quality articles. The purpose of peer reviewing is to have reviewers help a submitted article become stronger by evaluating its quality and relevance to the field, and providing suggestions and advice to authors. Reviewer ethics and responsibilities are posted in our Editorial Policies page.
FFHD’s Peer Review Process
Functional Foods in Health and Disease has a single blind closed review process. Single blind review means that the author is unaware of the reviewer’s identity. This process helps reviewers make impartial decisions and give better criticism to the author, because the reviewer will not be unnecessarily influenced by the author. Closed review means that the reviewers will remain anonymous and the pre-publication history will not be made available.
Submission of a manuscript is first reviewed by a Chief Editor. If the manuscript meets all the basic requirements, the manuscript will be assigned two peer reviewers. The review process takes approximately 2-4 weeks. The reviewers will evaluate the manuscript based on its ability to serve the scientific community, its relevance to the journal, its originality, its technical aspects (such as formatting), as well as its coherence and understandability.
After analysis by reviewers it will be returned to the Chief Editor for last detail checks such as grammar and language, and then sent to the author for revisions. Several correspondences between author, editor-in-chief, and reviewers occur before final manuscript is ready. After all necessary revisions have been made and publication fees have been paid, the manuscript is published. All decisions are ultimately made by Editors-in-Chief and are whom any appeals against rejection should be addressed to.
Peer Reviewers
Authors may suggest peer reviewers via their submission’s cover letter if they wish, however, decisions about whether or not to invite the suggested reviewer(s) is ultimately up to the Editor-in-Chief. Suggested reviewers should not be people whom the author(s) have recently collaborated with or currently work with as colleagues in the same institution. All suggested peer reviewers should have contact information included.
A request for exclusion of certain individuals as peer reviewers is also acceptable, but an explanation must be provided via the submission’s cover letter. Extensive listing of individuals is not acceptable as it may impede the peer review process.
Any intentionally false information (i.e., false reviewer names and/or e-mail addresses) will result in immediate rejection of the manuscript.
Authors wishing to submit a manuscript should also read over all the Editorial Policies under the link “About the Journal.”
7. Statements concerning Conflict of Interest, Human and Animal Rights, and Informed Consent for publications (http://ffhdj.com/index)
Competing interests: A competing interest exists when your interpretation of data or presentation of information may be influenced by your personal or financial relationship with other people or organizations. Authors should disclose any financial competing interests but also any non-financial competing interests that may cause them embarrassment were they to become public after the publication of the manuscript
Privacy Statement: The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Advertising Policies for print and web publications (http://ffhdj.com/index):
The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD) is a peer-reviewed open access journal that covers various aspects of functional foods, bioactive compounds, and chronic diseases. The journal is designed to keep members of the Academic Society for Functional Foods and Bioactive Compounds (ASFFBC), the readers of Functional Food Center newsletter (more than 1,000,000 readers composed of scientists, medical doctors, dietitians, and nutritionists) as well as the public up-to-date on the latest advancements in functional foods for the prevention and management of chronic diseases. The journal will strive to develop concepts that help to understand the mechanisms of disease and creation of specific functional foods in the prevention and management of various diseases This is an existing serial which has been published under the title Functional Foods in Health and Disease since February 2011.
8. Journal Citation and Indexing
The FFHD journal has been indexed in the Web of Science since 2011 and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) since 2015. The ESCI was a new database in the Web of Science that was launched in 2015 by Thomson Reuters. The ESCI aimed to expand the Web of Science publications by including excellent quality, peer-reviewed journals. Around 3,000 journals were selected for the launch, including the FFHD. Since then, a separate organization called Clarivate Analytics has produced the index starting in 2017. In addition, in 2020 the journal was accepted into Scopus! All articles from 2011 on have been accepted and indexed within Scopus. The acceptance into both Scopus and Web of Science show strength of the journal and the authors as well as help expand the reach of our published articles.
The FFHD’s citation score has more than doubled over the past two years. As of November 2020 our average citations per item is 3.9. This number is calculated by the sum of the times cited count divided by the number of results in the set. Our h-index is 16, which means there are h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
In addition, the FFHD's self-citation percentage is 4.64%. The self-citation percentage reflects the number of times an article published in a journal has cited a previously published article in the same journal.
The FFHD journal is also indexed in Index Copernicus International (ICI). The ICI has indexed over 6,000 journals. Our current value in ICI for 2018 is 88.99. The value is based on a multidimensional parametric assessment, with over 100 assessment criteria.
In addition, we have also been cited in the following databases: CrossRef, Chemical Abstract, EBSCO, and Google Scholar.
Submit manuscript at http://ffhdj.com or send as an e-mail attachment to the Editorial Office at editor@ffhdj.com
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