1、投稿方式：在线投稿。

2、官网网址（微信公众号信息）：

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-nutrition/

https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/animal-nutrition/

3、投稿系统：

https://www.editorialmanager.com/aninu

4、刊内电话：010-62817823

5、刊内邮箱：editorial.office@anim-nutr.com

（更多主编、编辑邮箱详见官网和刊内信息）

6、出刊日期：季刊，逢季末月出版。

7、官方微信公众号：Animal Nutrition期刊公众号

2026年1月29日星期四

Guide for Authors

【官网信息】

Introduction

Animal Nutrition

An International Open Access and Peer-Reviewed Journal.

Animal

Nutrition encompasses the full gamut of animal nutritional sciences and

reviews including, but not limited to, fundamental aspects of animal

nutrition such as nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body

composition, energetics, immunology, neuroscience, microbiology,

genetics and molecular and cell biology related to primarily to the

nutrition of farm animals and aquatic species.More applied aspects of

animal nutrition, such as the evaluation of novel ingredients, feed

additives and feed safety will also be considered but it is expected

that such studies will have a strong nutritional focus.

Types of Paper

Contributions

falling into the following categories will be considered for

publication: original research papers, reviews, and short communication.

Authors

should select the appropriate article type from the list of options

when making your submission. Authors contributing to special issues

should ensure that they select the special issue article type from the

list.

Contact Details for Submission

For

queries concerning the submission process or journal procedures please

visit the Elsevier Support Center. Authors can determine the status of

their manuscript within the review procedure using Elsevier Editorial

System.

Before you begin

Ethics in Publishing

For

information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal

publication see https://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and

https://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/ethics.

Submissions

to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's

CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect plagiarism issues

including instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted

manuscripts. Details can be found here. High similarity papers will be

desk rejected.

Animal experiments

If

your research involves animal experiments, it is necessary to include a

statement, in which the following information should be included:

All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.

The name of the ethical committee approving these experiments.

The

animal ethics approval No. (if available); or a stamped document signed

by the ethical committee (if an approval No. is not available).

The statement should appear as the first item in the section of Materials and Methods, e.g. "2.1. Animal ethics statement".

All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines

Human subjects

Does

the study include human subjects? If so, please provide name of the

ethical committee approving these experiments, confirm authors'

compliance with all relevant ethical regulations.

Informed Consent

If

the manuscript related to clinical study, please provide following

pieces of information and state them in the manuscript: 1) date of IRB

approval and the approval number, 2) status of informed consent (IC);

[e.g. Was written IC required? Was the clinical study approved without

IC? If so, the reason why?]

I

confirm that I have obtained all consents required by applicable law

for the publication of any personal details or images of patients,

research subjects or other individuals that are used in the materials

submitted to Elsevier. I have retained a written copy of all such

consents and I agree to provide Elsevier with copies of the consents or

evidence that such consents have been obtained if requested by Elsevier.

Clinical research must include IRB approval and patient consent forms.

Declaration of Competing Interests

Starting

from 2026, all authors must disclose any financial and personal

relationships with other people or organizations that could

inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential

competing interests include:

Employment

Consultancies

Stock ownership

Honoraria

Paid expert testimony

Patent applications or registrations

Grants or any other funding

Affiliation with the journal as an Editor or Advisory Board Member

The declarations tool should always be completed.

Authors

with a journal affiliation to declare should enter the following text

under “Other Activities” within the declarations tool and should inform

the journal and publisher prior to completing the submission process:

Given

their role as [insert journal role title], [insert your name] had no

involvement in the peer-review of this article and has no access to

information regarding its peer-review. Full responsibility for the

editorial process for this article was delegated to another journal

editor.

Authors with no competing interests to declare should select the option "I have nothing to declare".

The

resulting Word document containing your declaration should be uploaded

at the "attach/upload files" step in the submission process. It is

important that the Word document is saved in the .doc/.docx file format.

Author signatures are not required.

Role of the Funding Source

Authors

are requested to identify who provided financial support for the

conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly

describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the

collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the

report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. A

maximum of 4 funding sources can be listed. If the funding source(s) had

no such involvement then this should be stated.

Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing

Authors

can declare the use of generative AI in scientific writing upon

submission of the paper. The following guidance refers only to the

writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyse and draw

insights from data as part of the research process:

Generative

AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used in the writing

process to improve the readability and language of the manuscript.

The

technology must be applied with human oversight and control and authors

should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate

authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or

biased. Authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the

contents of the work.

Authors

must not list or cite AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or

co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities

and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans.

The

use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing

can be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when

the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the

published work and should be placed in a new section before the

references list. An example:

Title of new section: Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.

Statement:

During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL /

SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the

author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full

responsibility for the content of the published article.

The

declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools

used to check grammar, spelling and references. If you have nothing to

disclose, you do not need to add a statement.

We advise you to read our policy for authors on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies for Elsevier.

Please

note: to protect authors’ rights and the confidentiality of their

research, this journal does not currently allow the use of Generative AI

or AI-assisted technologies such as ChatGPT or similar services by

reviewers or editors in the peer review and manuscript evaluation

process. We are actively evaluating compliant AI tools and may revise

this policy in the future.

Submission Declaration

Submission

of an article implies that the work described has not been published

previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published

lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint, see Multiple,

redundant or concurrent publication section of our ethics policy for

more information), that it is not under consideration for publication

elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly

or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried

out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the

same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically

without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify

originality, the article may be checked by the originality detection

service CrossCheck.

Preprint posting on SSRN

In

support of Open Science, this journal offers its authors a free

preprint posting service. Preprints provide early registration and

dissemination of your research, which facilitates early citations and

collaboration.<P>During submission to Editorial Manager, you can

choose to release your manuscript publicly as a preprint on the preprint

server SSRN once it enters peer-review with the journal. Your choice

will have no effect on the editorial process or outcome with the

journal. Please note that the corresponding author is expected to seek

approval from all co-authors before agreeing to release the manuscript

publicly on SSRN.

You

will be notified via email when your preprint is posted online and a

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is assigned. Your preprint will remain

globally available free to read whether the journal accepts or rejects

your manuscript.

For more information about posting to SSRN, please consult the SSRN Terms of Use and FAQs.

First look

Please note: posted preprints for this journal will appear in a dedicated journal-branded First Look space on SSRN.

Use of Inclusive Language

Inclusive

language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is

sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content

should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any

reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is

superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity,

culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use

inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is

free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or

cultural assumptions. Animal Nutrition advises to seek gender

neutrality by using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as

default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." Animal

Nutrition recommends avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to

personal attributes such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture,

sexual orientation, disability or health condition unless they are

relevant and valid. These guidelines are meant as a point of reference

to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or

definitive.

Elsevier Researcher Academy

Researcher

Academy is a free e-learning platform designed to support early and

mid-career researchers throughout their research journey. The "Learn"

environment at Researcher Academy offers several interactive modules,

webinars, downloadable guides and resources to guide authors through the

process of writing for research and going through peer review. Feel

free to use these free resources to improve your submission and navigate

the publication process with ease.

Peer Review

This

journal operates a single blind review process. Papers deemed suitable

are sent to independent peer reviewers to assess the scientific quality

of the paper. The editors-in-chief are responsible for the final

decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. For more

information on the types of peer review, please visit:

https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/peer-review.

All

manuscripts are first reviewed by editorial office. Any manuscripts

fail to meet the basic standard of the journal would be desk rejected

for reasons like out of scope (e.g., pets, mice as experiment animals,

pure feed studies without animal experiments), high similarities, poor

presentation, etc. Selected manuscripts are assigned to

editors-in-chief.

Editors-in-chief would assign most manuscripts to associate editors and handle the rest themselves.

For submissions by editors-in-chief or associate editors, only other journal editors could independently handle them.

Authors

or associate editors are not permitted to appoint a handling editor for

a manuscript. Researchers from the same research group or the same

institution or organization of any of the authors are not to be selected

as the handling editors or reviewers.

Editors-in-chief or associate editors would evaluate the scientific content, desk reject or invite multiple peer reviewers.

The

handling editor would use Find Reviewers Using Scopus tool to invite

reviewers, selecting reviewers basing on the relevance to the

manuscript. The handling editor would use Web of Science or Scopus to

check whether the papers published by the peer reviewer in the past are

closely related to the manuscript sent for review.

After

at least 2 peer reviewers complete their reviews, the associate editors

would suggest a decision based on review comments. Editors-in-chief

would make the final decision and provide review comments to the

authors.

After

authors submit the revised manuscript, managing editors would check the

revised manuscript and assign it to editors-in-chief. The manuscript

may be sent to peer reviewers for further review again.

Open Access

This

is an open access journal: all articles will be immediately and

permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted third

party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user

licenses.

Copyright

After

the acceptance of a manuscript, authors will be asked to complete a

'Journal Publishing Agreement'. Acceptance of the agreement will ensure

the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent

to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript

together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the

online version of this agreement.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Users

are allowed to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from

the Article, to alter and revise the Article and to make commercial use

of the Article (including reuse and/or resale of the Article by

commercial entities), provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a

link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a

link to the license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is

not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details

of the license are available at

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

(https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/animal-nutrition/open-access-journal/)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

Users

are allowed to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not

done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of

the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the

user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication

through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the

licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The

full details of the license are available at

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Author rights

As an author, you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information

Elsevier supports responsible sharing

Find out how authors can share their research published in Elsevier journals.

Publishing Schedule

This journal is published quarterly continuously per year.

Contact Details

Editorial Office

Email: editorial.office@anim-nutr.com

Phone: +86-01-62817823

Address: Editorial office of Animal Nutrition, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, China

Managing editors

Hanna Wang, Email: hanna@anim-nutr.com

Xin Chen, Email: xin@anim-nutr.com

Yunyun Jiang, Email: yun@anim-nutr.com

Fan Zhang, Email: fan@anim-nutr.com

Article Processing Charges

Open

Access provides free and immediate online access to the scholarly

literature for anyone in the world to read, distribute and reuse. Animal

Nutrition offsets all the costs associated with our high-quality

publishing service through article processing charges (APC): articles

that are accepted for publication by our Editors-in-Chief following

rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to authors,

institutions or funders. The current APC is US$1462 for each article

accepted for publication plus VAT or local taxes where applicable.

Animal Nutrition is not party to any agreements entered into by Elsevier

to waive article publication charges.

Language Services

All

manuscripts must be written in clear and grammatically correct English.

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is

acceptable, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English

language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible

grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific

English may wish to use the English Language Editing service

(https://webshop.elsevier.com/language-editing/) available from

Elsevier's Author Services or customer support site

(https://service.elsevier.com).

Language Improvement

Manuscripts

should be complete, readable, and accurate. Common language issues

should be avoided and typographical, grammatical and bibliographical

errors before submission should be minimized by authors.

Authors

whose native language is not English are encouraged to utilize free

tools online to improve the syntax of manuscripts before submission or

ask the colleagues who are skilled in English language for proofreading:

–https://translate.google.cn/

–http://fanyi.youdao.com/

–https://fanyi.baidu.com/

–Do a Microsoft Word `spell-check' and `grammar-check'

–https://www.reverso.net/spell-checker/english-spelling-grammar/

Editorial Policies

The

Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine invites

scientists from the global community to submit papers for consideration.

Animal

Nutrition follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics

(COPE; http://publicationethics.org) and authors should refer to COPE

for guidance on authorship and publication ethics.

For more information on journal publication refer to http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/authors-and-editors/editorial-policies/.

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