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SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS. Original contributions relevant to food and nutrition sciences are accepted on the under-standing that the material has not been, nor is being, considered for publication elsewhere. Authors must explain, upon manuscript submis-sion, whether other parts of the manuscript or serial papers are being intended for submission. All papers which have been qualified as relevant with the scope of our Journal are reviewed. All contributions, except the invited reviews are charged. Authors should not expect royalties. Paper will normally be published in order of acceptance by the Editors, although this may occasionally be changed for reasons of space, or to publish more quickly particular paper which the Editors consider of topical interest.
Authors will receive an immediate acknowledgement of receipt of their papers. Authorship forms and editorial decisions by e-mail. During the review process, authors can check the status of their submitted manuscript via Internet. Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author or to the first author and should be returned within one week of re-ceipt. No new material may be inserted in the text at proof stage. It is the author’s duty to proofread proofs for errors.Authors should very carefully consider the preparation of papers to ensure that they communicate efficiently, because it permits the reader to gain the greatest return for the time invested in reading. Thus, we are more likely to accept those that are carefully designed and conform the instruction. Otherwise, papers will be returned to the author(s) for correction. Papers accepted become the copyright of the Institute, and may not be published elsewhere without the Editor’s permission in writting.

CONTRIBUTIONS. Reviews: (typically up to 15 pages) these are critical and conclusive accounts on trends in food and nutrition sci-ences. References must be in the form shown below; Papers: these are reports of substantial research and are divided into four sections, i.e. food, nutrition, analytical methods and other related subjects which cut across the above sections or which are on another aspect of food and nutrition; Short reports: these describe smaller investigations and applications, useful techniques and apparatus; Book reviews, reports on post and forthcoming scientific events, and letters to the Editor (all up to three pages) are also invited free of charge. Authorship forms and editorial decisions by e-mail. During the review process, authors can check the status of their submitted manuscript via Internet.

AUTHORSHIP FORMS referring to Authorship Responsibility, Conflict of Interest and Financial Disclosure, Copyright Transfer and Acknowledgement, are required for all authors. A manuscript will not be published once the original, signed form has not been submitted to the Editor.

ETHICAL APPROVAL OF STUDIES AND INFORMED CONSENT: For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants or animals, formal approval by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required and should be described in the Methods section. For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Dec-laration of Helsinki should be followed. For investigations of humans, state in the Methods section the manner in which informed consent was obtained from the study participants (i.e., oral or written). Editors may request that authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of the study.

UNAUTHORIZED USE AND COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT: Published manuscripts become the property of the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IAR&FR PAS) and may not be published elsewhere without written per-mission. Unauthorized use of the PJFNS name, logo, or any content for commercial purposes or to promote commercial goods and services (in any format, including print, video, audio, and digital) is not permitted by IAR&FR PAS.

TYPESCRIPTS. Two copies in Polish and in English must be single-sided, preferably in TimesNewRoman (12) with 1.5-point spacing. Lines on all pages including those for References and Figure Legends must be numbered in the left margin, beginning with number one on the top of the page. Indicate each author’s telephone number, e-mail, and a fax number, if available, on a separate piece of paper or in a letter to Editor. The Editor reserves the right to make literary corrections and to make suggestions to improve brevity. English is the official language. The English version of the paper will be checked only for grammatical accuracy. Unclear and unintelligible version will be sent to the author(s) for correction. Papers submitted only in Polish are extra charged (see: Page charges).
Every paper should be divided under the following headings in this order: a Title (possibly below 150 spaces), Running title (up to 50 spac-es, submitted under the Title); the Names(s) of the author(s) in full. In paper with more than one author, the asterisk indicates the name of the author to whom correspondence and inquiries should be addressed, otherwise the first author is considered for the correspondence. Cur-rent full postal address of the indicated corresponding author or the first author must be given in a footnote on the title page; the Place(s) where the work was done including the institution name, city, country if not Poland. In papers originated from several institutions the names of the authors should be marked with respective superscripts; the Key words (up to 6 words or phrases) for the main topics of the paper; an Abstract (up to 250 words for regular papers and reviews and 100 words for Short Reports) summarizing briefly main results of the paper, no literature references; an Introduction giving essential background by saying why the research is important, how it relates to previous works and stating clearly the objectives at the end; Materials and Methods with sufficient experimental details permitting to repeat or extend the experiments. Literature references to the methods, sources of material, company names and location (city, country) for specific instruments must be given. Describe how the data were evaluated, including selection criteria used; Results and Discussion may be presented together or separately. Results should be presented concisely and organized to supplement, but not repeat, data in tables and figures. Do not display the data in both tabular and graphic form. Use narrative form to present the data for which tables or figures are unnecessary. Discussion should cover the implications and consequences, not merely recapitulating the results, and it must be accomplished with concise Conclusions; Acknowledgements expressed in the simplest form for grant support and recipients of fellowship; Appendix, if necessary References as shown below; a Summary (up to 25 lines in Polish for the native authors exclusively) giving main results with the reference to the tables and figures.
Authors are strongly encouraged to deliver their contributions on CD roms Windows format; Word, and Corel Draw, Excell or Illustrator Adobe illustration software). Label the CD with your name, the file name and the program used. The CD must be accompanied by copy printout which is only considered the definitive version. Manuscripts can also be submitted via e-mail.

ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS.Abbreviations should only be used when long or unwieldy names occur frequently, and never in the title; they should be given at the first mention of the name. Metric SI units should be used. The capital letter L should be used for liters. Avoid the use of percentages (% g/g, % w/w; Mol-%; vol-%;), ppm, ppb. Instead, the expression such as g/kg, g/L, mg/kg, mg/cm³ should be used. Report concentration as 1 mol/L not 1 M/L. A space must be left between a number and a symbol (e.g. 50 mL not 50mL). A small x must be used as multiplication sign between numeric values (e.g. 5 x 10² mol^–1) but a dot on the line must be used between units (e.g. kg.m.s^–2). Statistics and measurements should be given in figures, except when the number begins a sentence. Chemical formulae and solutions must specify the form used. Chemical abbreviations, unless they are internationally known, Greek symbols and unusual symbols for the first time should be defined by name in the left margin. Common species names should be followed by the Latin at the first mention, with contracting it to a single letter or word for subsequent use.

FIGURES should be submitted as clear, black and white originals in drawing ink on tracing paper, computer graphics with laser printers or as white and black photographs of good quality. They should be comprehensible without reference to the text. Maximum size 20 x 28 cm. If submitting chromatograms, please have them redrawn. Lettering: typed lettering not acceptable, should not appear on the figure but in the figure legend and should be uniform between figures. Three-dimensional graphs should only be used to illustrate real 3-D relationships. Start the scale of axes and bars or columns at zero, do not interrupt them or omit missing data on them. Use the following symbols if explained in the legend: – , – , – , – , – , – , Figures must be cited in Arabic numbers in the text. Self-explanatory legend to all figures should be typed separately under the heading "Legends to figures". Electronic versions of Figures submitted with the manuscript either via e-mail or in CD should contain a link to data, so that they can be edited. Figures should not be inserted in the text, but at the end of manuscript or on separate sheet.

TABLES should be as few in number and as simple as possible (like figures, they are expensive and space consuming), and include only essential data with appropriate statistical values. Each must have an Arabic number, a self-explanatory caption, and be on a separate sheet.

EQUATION in the text as A = B/(C–D) not , unless they are more complicated.

REFERENCES each must have and Arabic number and must be listed alphabetically on the separate sheets at the end of the paper in the form as follows: Periodicals – names and initials of all the authors, title of the paper, abbreviated journal title as in Chemical Abstracts, year of publication, volume, inclusive page numbers (titles of papers published in Polish must be translated into English; see example below); Books – names and initials of all the authors, name’s of editors , year of publication, publishing company, place of publication, inclusive page numbers; Patents – the name of the application, the title, the country, patent number or application number, the year of publication. For papers published in language other than English, the original language with a note whether the paper contains English abstract should be given in parantheses at the end. The listed references should not include more than 20 items with at least 16 items from the last decade. Reviews, textbooks, manuals and conference abstracts should not be referred to.
References in the text must be cited by name and year in square parantheses (e.g.: one author – [Tokarz, 1994]; two authors – [Słonimski & Campbell, 1987]; more than two authors – [Amarowicz et al., 1994]). Use Ibid. for repeating references to the same journal. If more than one paper is published in the same year by the same author or group of authors use form [Tokarz, 1994a,b]. Unpublished work must only be cited where necessary and only in the text by giving the person's name.

Examples.

PAGE CHARGES. A standard page charge (including ten offprints of each article and five copies of issue supplied to the first author or the corresponding author, and proofreading of the article for English grammar, brevity and style by professional translators) has been estab-lished at the rate of 40 PLN + 22% VAT per page of the manuscript. One page is 1800 characters including spaces. Each table and figure will be charged at the rate of 20 PLN + 22% VAT. Extra payment (+30% of standard page charge) will be charged of the author(s) submitting their manuscripts only in Polish and those applying for “express publication”. Additional charges can be considered in the case of authors whose pa-per will require the following: (i) remarking the figures in case the originals are expected to give poor reproductions; and (ii) on-demand printing of colour photographs. For foreign Authors the net page charge is 20 EUR per each printed page.
After notification by the Editor, the payment should be made by direct bank transfer to Bank Gospodarki Żywnościowej, Olsztyn, account No 17203000451110000000452110 Re: “Pol. J. Food Nutr. Sci.”. It is the author’s duty to prove that the payment has been made by sending the copy of bank transfer.

Information on publishing and subscribing is available from:
Ms. Joanna Molga
Redakcja Pol. J. Food Nutr. Sci., Oddział Nauki o Żywności,
Instytut Rozrodu Zwierząt i Badań Żywności PAN,
ul. Tuwima 10, 10-747 Olsztyn 5,
phone (48 89) 523-46-70, fax (48 89) 523-46-70;
e-mail: joan@pan.olsztyn.pl
http://www.journal.pan.olsztyn.pl/

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