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2021年5月7日星期五

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Editors & Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Thomas Hofmann

Technische Universität München

Germany

E-mail: hofmann-office@jafc.acs.org

Associate Editors

Zhen-Yu Chen

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

China

E-mail: chen-office@jafc.acs.org

Yolanda Gogorcena

CSIC – Aula Dei Experimental Station (EEAD)

Spain

E-mail: gogorcena-office@jafc.acs.org

Cathleen J. Hapeman

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

United States

E-mail: hapeman-office@jafc.acs.org

Chi-Tang Ho

Rutgers University

United States

E-mail: ho-office@jafc.acs.org

Jozef Kokini

Purdue University

United States

E-mail: kokini-office@jafc.acs.org

Qing X. Li

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

United States

E-mail: li-office@jafc.acs.org

Yoshinori Mine

University of Guelph

Canada

E-mail: mine-office@jafc.acs.org

Shengmin Sang

North Carolina A&T State University

United States

E-mail: sang-office@jafc.acs.org

Peter Schieberle

Technische Universität München

Germany

E-mail: schieberle-office@jafc.acs.org

Veronika Somoza

University of Vienna

Austria

E-mail: somoza-office@jafc.acs.org

Francisco Tomas-Barberan

CEBAS

Spain

E-mail: jafc@cebas.csic.es

Liangli Yu

University of Maryland

United States

E-mail: yu-office@jafc.acs.org

Holger Zorn

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Germany

E-mail: zorn-office@jafc.acs.org

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Information for Authors

Author Guidelines

Manuscript Submission Requirements Checklist

Manuscripts and revised manuscripts must be submitted via the ACS Paragon Plus Web site (acsparagonplus.acs.org). E-mailed submissions and hardcopy submissions will not be processed. An overview of and complete instructions for the Web submission process are available at the ACS Paragon Plus website.

When submitting, please be aware of the following requirements:

All manuscripts must be accompanied by a written statement on the manuscript’s significance (not a summary of the abstract), addressing the following three bullet points: (1) statement of the problem addressed and originality of the approach, (2) contribution of the work to create new knowledge in the field, and (3) relevance of the work to advance research and impact to the field of agricultural and food chemistry, including the specific role of molecular research in the study. This 3-point statement should be uploaded as an informal letter using the manuscript file designation “Supporting information for review only”.

All co-authors listed on the title page of the manuscript must be entered into the ACS Paragon Plus System at step 2 in the manuscript submission process. Only one corresponding author is allowed for each manuscript in Paragon Plus. Additional corresponding authors may be designated on the manuscript title page. Use of the phrase “all authors contributed equally” is discouraged. Instead, statements about author contributions should identify the specific aspect of the author’s contribution.

The manuscript abstract and text must appear in a single, double-spaced column; lines in the abstract and text must be numbered consecutively from beginning to end in a separate column at the left. There is no separate conclusion section to be used; conclusions should be incorporated into the results and discussion section. All of the manuscript text (including title page, abstract, all sections of the body of the paper, figure captions, scheme or chart titles and footnotes, and references) and tabular material should be in one file, with the complete text first followed by the tabular material.

To ensure that a submitted manuscript meets sufficient interest of the readership of the journal, it is expected that articles recently published on the respective topic in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and other similar journals in the field are cited to a reasonable extent. In general, references must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.

The author’s preference for manuscript category is indicated during the submission process. However, the final decision on the category under which the manuscript will be listed lies with the Editor.

The system requires authors to supply the names, e-mail addresses, and affiliations of at least four recommended reviewers. The recommended reviewers should be experts in the subject matter of the manuscript and not be anyone who is or has been a former adviser/advisee,colleague in the same institution, research collaborator, and/or co-author of papers and patents or in any other way has a conflict of interest.

If the manuscript is one of a series of companion manuscripts that will be published sequentially, please describe the planned series in the cover letter, mentioning previously published parts and giving an estimate of when subsequent parts will be submitted.

Complete instructions for manuscript preparation are updated frequently and are available at the Journal’s website. Please conform to these instructions when submitting manuscripts.

Authors whose manuscripts are published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry will be expected to review manuscripts submitted by other researchers from time to time.

Scope Of The Journal

The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry considers high-quality, original research representing complete studies and scientific advances dealing with the innovative application of chemistry, biochemistry and biological sciences to increase the molecular understanding of product attributes, processes, technologies, and health aspects encompassing the agricultural-food-nutrition continuum.

Manuscripts are expected to involve chemistry, biochemistry and/or molecular biology as the fundamental component and can be combined with novel aspects of process engineering and food technology, authenticity and origin aspects of food, or the biological evaluation of agricultural systems including plant-plant, plant-fungal and plant-insect interactions, and/or food systems. The latter may include microbial, nutritional, physiological, sensory, or toxicological properties, and data must accompany sufficient discussion to demonstrate their relevance to food and nutrition.

Research considered for publication should be of general interest to the scientific community and/or the public, its potential impact should be significant and the technical quality is expected to conform to the highest standards of chemical research.

Current specific categories are as follows:

Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry

to advance molecular knowledge (e.g., crop protection chemistry, nanotechnology, natural toxins, fate and biotransformation of residues), elucidate mechanisms of action of agrochemicals, understand mechanisms of plant-plant, plant-fungal and plant-insect interactions including the action of bioactive constituents in desirable plants on control of pests that threaten them, and promote innovative solutions for increased agricultural productivity, a sustainable supply of food and fiber, and protection of public health and the environment including water quality/treatment, agricultural waste, and energy- related issues.

Bioactive Constituents, Metabolites, and Functions

to increase knowledge of chemical structures of bioactive constituents, phytonutrients, and nutraceuticals in foods, their human and animal metabolism, and their mechanisms of biological function to affect human health status, including various aspects of molecular nutrition such as nutritional biochemistry, nutrigenomics and metabolomics. Studies on traditional medicines and herbal remedies are outside the scope of this category. It is mandatory that manuscripts reporting on biological properties of crude extracts include detailed information on the chemical composition of the extracts causing the described properties.

Manuscripts can encompass cell-based or other in vitro assays, animal models, clinical human trails, or a combination thereof as the fundamental component, however, test systems applied must be appropriate and the analytical method used should allow the quantitation of time and dose response effects. It is understood that discussion on nutritional relevance and conclusions on human health aspects are carefully formulated considering the experimental design used (appropriate cell test lines, significance of test/trail, relevant dose levels) and the data obtained.

Biofuels and Biobased Materials

to advance knowledge of chemistry, biology, and processing of biobased products and biofuels including all the related areas of biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas, biotransformations and bioprocesses (plants, algae etc.), waste utilization, biorefinery and bioresource technologies associated with conversion or production of biobased materials, and sustainability, and environmental emissions and effects associated with these processes.

Biotechnology and Biological Transformations

to foster technological advances in plant/agricultural biotechnology (e.g., crop improvement, nutraceuticals, bioenergy, transgenic plants, phytoremediation), microbial and insect biotechnology (metabolic engineering and synthetic/systems biology of bacteria, fungi, insects, yeasts and algae in the context of fermentation/bioproduction, biocatalysis, bioremediation, biodegradation), food and flavor biotechnology (biotransformations/microbiology and metabolic aspects of food/beverage systems), and protein and enzyme technology (recombinant proteins/enzymes, cell-free protein expression systems, and biocatalysis using immobilized enzymes).

Chemistry and Biology of Odor and Taste

to advance molecular knowledge of the instrumental analysis (e.g. bioelectronics sensors), chemical structures, and formation pathways of aroma and taste molecules of plant and animal derived foods and beverages, the chemosensory receptors mediating flavor object recognition (e.g. in vitro cell assays), human in vivo psychophysics (incl. multisensory integration), and neurological processing of flavor stimuli (imaging technologies).

Food and Beverage Chemistry/Biochemistry

to deepen the fundamental understanding of chemical structures, structural modifications, interactions, and (bio)chemical transformations of minor and major components in foods and beverages, potentially in combination with novel aspects of process engineering, food technology, nanotechnology, packaging and storing, authenticity and origin aspects of food, or the biological evaluation of food and beverage systems.

Food Safety and Toxicology

to advance our knowledge of detrimental health effects and the mechanisms of adverse physiological, or pathological changes induced by natural or synthetic chemicals occurring in the human environment with particular emphasis on foods, crop protection chemicals, contaminants and related chemicals (e.g., nanomaterials, biotechologically derived products), including agricultural safety and consumer product safety, and the design and action of chemically related processes that enhance food safety.

Functional Structure/Activity Relationships

to increase the knowledge on the relationship between chemical structure and biological (microorganisms, insects, animals, human) or technofunctional activity (e.g., Emulsifying, foaming, gelation) of agricultural and food components.

This category comprises (i) organic synthetic studies and/or structural biological studies (X-ray, NMR, etc.) of relevant ligands and targets with the aim of investigating molecular recognition processes in the action of biologically active compounds, (ii) molecular biological studies (e.g., site-directed mutagenesis) of macromolecular targets that lead to an improved understanding of molecular recognition, and (iii) computational studies that analyze the SAR of compounds of interest and lead to experimental studies or analysis of other available chemical and/or biological data that substantially advance the knowledge in agricultural and food chemistry.

Routine extensions of existing series that do not add significantly to a basic understanding of the structure-activity relationship (SAR) of the series or do not utilize novel chemical/biological approaches will normally not be considered for publication.

New Analytical Methods

to expand the repertoire of analytical methods in agriculture and food research by new analytical method development using chemical, physical, and biological principles. Manuscripts dealing with existing analytical methods should offer a significant, original application of the method or a major improvement going far beyond state-of-the-art.

For manuscripts describing the application of an existing method, even when modified, the category selected should be driven by the application (e.g., Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Bioactive Constituents, Metabolites, and Functions, etc.).

Omics Technologies Applied to Agriculture and Food

to promote a more integrative understanding of complex systems in agriculture, food, and nutrition by the application of metabolomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics/genomics technologies combined with, but not limited to, bioinformatics and computational biology.

It is mandatory that manuscripts in this category go beyond a sheer holistic fingerprinting of samples, metabolic changes need to be identified on a molecular level and validated by means of targeted analysis.

These categories are periodically reviewed and may be changed.

Manuscript Types

RESEARCH ARTICLES must report original research that is expected to have a definable impact on the advancement of science and technology, incorporating a significant component of innovative chemistry and/or molecular biology. Novel experimental results, theoretical treatments, interpretations of data, and absence of prior publications on the same/similar topics will document originality. Fragmentation of work into an incremental series of manuscripts is not acceptable.

REVIEW ARTICLES will be considered that comprehensively summarize information in a field in which the literature is scattered and/or treat published data or other information so as to provide a new approach or stimulate further research. Authors considering the preparation of a review may contact the Editor with any questions.

PERSPECTIVES, as opposed to a comprehensive Review Article, are expected to be concise discussions of a particular field to help readers keep abreast of the advances and trends in agricultural and food chemistry outside their own area of expertise. Therefore, Perspectives are written in a manner understandable to scientists working in any area under the broader umbrella of agricultural and food chemistry. Following an abstract of no more than 100 words, the text of the Perspective should not exceed 12 double-spaced manuscript pages in length, exclusive of tables, figures, photographs, and references. Up to four tables, figures, or photographs, total, may be included. References should be limited to no more than 30 in total.

VIEWPOINTS are short opinion-style manuscripts that provide authors with a venue to comment on an issue of pressing importance to the JAFC readership community. Viewpoints are not peer-reviewed but are subject to editorial approval. JAFC welcomes Viewpoints of a scientific nature; no Viewpoints of an exclusively political nature will be considered for publication. Successful Viewpoints clearly articulate a research need to the reader and avoid summarizing a particular research area or study. A limit of 1000 words + author affiliations + 5 references + 1 single-frame figure with a 50 word caption OR a 350 word table will be strictly enforced; submissions exceeding this maximum will not be considered.

COMMENTS related to published papers will be considered from readers if the correspondence is received within six months of the date of publication of the original paper; the authors of the original paper will be given the opportunity to reply to such comments within two months, if they so desire.

Both comments and replies should not exceed 1000 words each, including citations, and will be published consecutively in the same issue of the Journal after peer review. For examples, see J. Agric. Food Chem., 2015, 63, 5305–5306 (DOI: 10.1021/jf506172q) and J. Agric. Food Chem., 2015, 63, 5307–5307 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b01143).

SYMPOSIA OR TOPICAL COLLECTIONS comprise a series of manuscripts reporting or synthesizing original research that are presented in a symposium or otherwise clustered around a single topic. Prospective organizers should contact the Editor well in advance to determine whether the subject matter conforms to the Journal’s goals, criteria, and available space and to obtain specific instructions for submission of the manuscripts. Each manuscript will be subject to the normal peer-review process. For an example, see J. Agric. Food Chem., 2015, 63, 5837–5840 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b00324) and J. Agric. Food Chem., 2015, 63, 5099–5099.( DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b00159).

ACS Publishing Center

While this document will provide basic information on how to prepare and submit the manuscript as well as other critical information about publishing, we also encourage authors to visit the ACS Publishing Center for additional information on everything that is needed to prepare (and review) manuscripts for ACS journals and partner journals, such as

Mastering the Art of Scientific Publication, which shares editor tips about a variety of topics including making your paper scientifically effective, preparing excellent graphics, and writing cover letters.

Resources on how to prepare and submit a manuscript to ACS Paragon Plus, ACS Publications’ manuscript submission and peer review environment, including details on selecting the applicable Journal Publishing Agreement.

Sharing your research with the public through the ACS Publications open access program.

ACS Reviewer Lab, a free online course covering best practices for peer review and related ethical considerations.

Manuscript Preparation

Submit with Fast Format

All ACS journals and partner journals have simplified their formatting requirements in favor of a streamlined and standardized review-ready format for an initial manuscript submission. Read more about the requirements and the benefits these serves authors and reviewers here.

Manuscripts submitted for initial consideration must adhere to these standards:

Submissions must be complete with clearly identified standard sections used to report original research, free of annotations or highlights, and include all numbered and labeled components.

Figures, charts, tables, schemes, and equations should be embedded in the text at the point of relevance. Separate graphics can be supplied later at revision, if necessary.

References can be provided in any style, but they must be complete, including titles.

Supporting Information should be submitted as a separate file(s).

Document Templates and Format

The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry does not require the use of any document templates. General information on the preparation of manuscripts may be found in the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication.

Acceptable Software, File Designations, and TeX/LaTeX

See the list of Acceptable Software and appropriate File Designations to be sure your file types are compatible with ACS Paragon Plus. Information for manuscripts generated from TeX/LaTeX is also available.

Cover Letter

A cover letter must accompany every manuscript submission. During the submission process, you may type it or paste it into the submission system, or you may attach it as a file.

Manuscript Text Components

MANUSCRIPT FORMAT

The Journal has a 20 typed page limit, not including references, tables, and figures. Authors must request approval from the Editor-in-Chief to submit manuscripts exceeding 20 typed pages.

The various sections of the manuscript should be assembled in the following sequence:

Title and authorship (single page)

Abstract and keywords (single page)

Introduction

Materials and Methods (including Safety information)

Results/Discussion

Abbreviations Used

Acknowledgment

Supporting Information description

References

Graphic for table of contents

TITLE, AUTHORSHIP, AND KEYWORDS

Title. The title should be specific, informative, and concise. Keywords in the title assist in effective literature retrieval. If a plant is referred to in the title or elsewhere in the text by its common or trivial name, it should be identified by its scientific name in parentheses immediately following its first occurrence. This term should also be provided as one of the keywords. If trade names are mentioned, give generic names in parentheses.

Authorship. Be consistent in authorship designation on the manuscript and on all correspondence. First name, middle initial, and last name are generally adequate for correct identification, but omit titles. Give the complete mailing address of all institutions where work was conducted and identify the affiliation of each author. If the current address of an author is different, include it in a footnote on the title page. The name of the author to whom inquiries about the paper should be addressed must be marked with an asterisk; provide the telephone number and e-mail address of this correspondent.

Many Funders and Institutions require that institutional affiliations are identified for all authors listed in the work being submitted. ACS facilitates this requirement by collecting institution information during manuscript submission under Step 2: Authors and Affiliations in ACS Paragon Plus.

Keywords. Provide significant keywords to aid the reader in literature retrieval. Please consider the use of words different from those in the title to expand discoverability of the article. The keywords are published immediately before the text, following the abstract.

ABSTRACT

Authors’ abstracts are used directly for Chemical Abstracts. The abstract should be a clear, concise (100– 150 words), one-paragraph summary, informative rather than descriptive, giving scope and purpose, experimental approach, significant results, and major conclusions. Write for literature searchers as well as journal readers.

INTRODUCTION

Discuss relationships of the study to previously published work, but do not reiterate or attempt to provide a complete literature survey. Use of Chemical Abstracts/Scifinder and other appropriate databases is encouraged to ensure that important prior publications or patents are cited and that the manuscript does not duplicate previously published work. The purpose or reason for the research being reported, and its significance, originality, or contribution to new knowledge in the field, should be clearly and concisely stated. Current findings should not be included or summarized in this section.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Authors must emphasize any unexpected, new, and/or significant hazards or risks associated with the reported work. This information should be in the experimental details section of the full article or communication.

Apparatus, reagents, and biological materials used in the study should be incorporated into a general section. List devices of a specialized nature or instruments that may vary in performance, such that the model used may affect the quality of the data obtained (e.g., spectroscopic resolution).

List and describe preparation of special reagents only. Reagents normally found in the laboratory and preparations described in standard handbooks or texts should not be listed.

Specify the source, vendor [city and state (or city and country if non-U.S.)], and availability of special equipment, reagents, kits, etc. Do not include catalog numbers.

Biological materials should be identified by scientific name (genus, species, authority, and family) and cultivar, if appropriate, together with the site from which the samples were obtained. Specimens obtained from a natural habitat should be preserved by deposit of samples in an herbarium for plants or in a culture collection for microorganisms, with a corresponding collection or strain number listed.

Manuscripts describing studies in which live animals or human subjects are used must include a statement that such experiments were performed in compliance with the appropriate laws and institutional guidelines and also name the institutional committee that approved the experiments. Authors are encouraged to note the approval code or number or give the name of the approving office or official. (See Reporting Specific Data: Animal or Human Studies.) Manuscripts reporting data from inhumane treatment of experimental animals will be rejected.

Specific experimental methods should be sufficiently detailed for others to repeat the experiments unequivocally. Omit details of procedures that are common knowledge to those in the field. Brief highlights of published procedures may be included, but details must be left to the References, and verbatim repeat of previously published methods, even if done by the authors, will not be permitted unless a quotation from a published work is included, and placed in quotation marks, with the reference to the source included at the end of the quotation. Describe pertinent and critical factors involved in reactions so the method can be reproduced, but avoid excessive description. For information on the reporting of certain types of data see Reporting Specific Data.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Results and discussion may be presented in separate sections or combined into a single section, whichever format conveys the results in the most lucid fashion without redundancy. Be complete but concise in discussing findings, comparing results with previous work and proposing explanations for the results observed.

All data must be accompanied by appropriate statistical analyses, including complete information on sampling, replication, and how the statistical method employed was chosen.

Avoid comparisons or contrasts that are not pertinent, and avoid speculation unsupported by the data obtained.

A separate summary or conclusion section is not to be used; any concluding statements are to be incorporated under Results and Discussion.

ABBREVIATIONS AND NOMENCLATURE

Standard abbreviations, without periods, should be used throughout the manuscript.

Refer to The ACS Style Guide for the preferred forms of commonly used abbreviations. Specialized abbreviations may be used provided they are placed in parentheses after the word(s) for which they are to substitute at first point of use and are again defined in this section. Avoid trivial names and “code” abbreviations (e.g., NAR for naringenin) unless such codes are in common usage (e.g., MTBE for methyl tert-butyl ether).

If trade names are used, define at point of first use. If nomenclature is specialized, include a “Nomenclature” section at the end of the paper, giving definitions and dimensions for all terms. Use SI units insofar as possible. Refer to The ACS Style Guide for lists of SI units and a discussion of their use.

Write all equations and formulas clearly and number equations consecutively. Place superscripts and subscripts accurately; avoid superscripts that may be confused with exponents. Identify typed letters and numbers that might be misinterpreted, such as “oh” for zero or “ell” for one. Chemistry numbering requiring primes should be identified as such (i.e., 3,3´-dihydroxy-), not by an apostrophe (e.g., 3,3’- dihydroxy- ).

It is the authors’ responsibility to provide correct nomenclature. Structures should be included for uncommon chemicals, particularly when the systematic or common name is too complex or unclear to readily denote the structure. Such structures should be included as a figure or table. All nomenclature must be consistent and unambiguous and should conform to current American usage. Insofar as possible, authors should use systematic names similar to those used by Chemical Abstracts Service, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Chemical Abstracts (CA) nomenclature rules are described in Appendix IV of the Chemical Abstracts Index Guide. For CA nomenclature advice, consult the Manager of Nomenclature Services, Chemical Abstracts Service, P.O. Box 3012, Columbus, OH 43210-0012. A name generation service is available for a fee through CAS Client Services, 2540 Olentangy River Road, P.O. Box 3343, Columbus, OH 43210-0334 [telephone (614) 447-3870; fax (614) 447-3747; e-mail answers@cas.org].

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Include essential credits but hold to an absolute minimum. Omit academic and social titles. Meeting presentation data and acknowledgment of financial support of the work should not be included here; give these instead in a note following the References. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to notify individuals named in the Acknowledgment prior to submission.

FUNDING SOURCES

Authors are required to report ALL funding sources and grant/award numbers relevant to the manuscript. Enter all sources of funding for ALL authors relevant to the manuscript BOTH in the Open Funder Registry tool in ACS Paragon Plus and in the manuscript to meet this requirement. See http://pubs.acs.org/page/4authors/funder_options.html for complete instructions.

Funding should be acknowledged in a separate statement (not in the Acknowledgment paragraph).

REFERENCES

Consult The ACS Style Guide and current issues of the Journal for examples of reference format.

Authors should cite all prior published work directly pertinent to the manuscript. To demonstrate that the submitted manuscript meets sufficient interest of the readership of the journal, it is expected that articles recently published on the respective topic in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and other similar journals in the field are cited to a reasonable extent. As a general guideline, authors should attempt to limit the literature cited to approximately 50 or fewer citations (except for Review manuscripts).

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their references. References taken from a review or other secondary source should be checked for accuracy with the primary source.

References should be listed on a separate page and numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text.

References should be cited in the text by superscript numbers, for example, 1,2–5, etc.

Give complete information, using the last name and initials of the author, patentee, or equivalent; do not use “Anonymous”.

Follow Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index for abbreviations of journal titles. Because subscribers to the Web edition of the Journal are now able to click on the “Chemport” or other tag following each reference to retrieve the corresponding abstract from various Web resources, reference accuracy is critical.

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