Content：
1. Aims & Scope
2. Submission of Manuscripts
3. The Review Process of Manuscripts
4. Authorship Criteria
5. Studies in Humans and Animals
6. Plagiarism and Misconduct
7. Correction and Retraction Policy
8. Archiving Policy
9. Declaration of Interest
10. Charging Standards
11. Other Information for Authors
Chinese Journal of Food Hygiene (CJFH) is an academic journal focusing on food hygiene and food safety and jointly sponsored by the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and the Chinese Medical Information and Big Data Association. CJFH aims to serve the scientists and related practitioners in the fields of food hygiene and food safety, promote academic exchanges in the fields of food safety and hygiene at home and abroad, and improve the health of the whole population.
The journal comprehensively reports the latest research achievements in the field of food hygiene, and actively promotes advanced experimental techniques and methods, timely exchanges experience on food safety supervision and food safety incident handling, and the latest information on food hygiene policies, laws, regulations and standards at home and abroad. The research scope of the journal covers monitoring, traceability and regulatory measures of foodborne diseases; risk identification technology for risky substances in food (including chemical analysis technology, microbiological inspection technology, toxicological evaluation methods, etc.); risk monitoring and assessment of food additives, nutrients and harmful substances; food safety risk assessment and communication; research on food safety standards and regulatory measures; nutrition and health promotion, etc.
To submit manuscripts, authors need to access the official website of CJFH (www.zgspws.com), and then log in to their personal accounts after registration (registered users can log in directly), and submit electronic manuscripts according to the submission instructions.
In addition, the authors need to mail the following materials to the Editorial Office: a hard copy of the manuscripts with the signatures of the first author, the corresponding author and the authors with positions above associate professor, letter of introduction from the institution, Copyright Transfer Agreement, conflict of interest statement, author contribution statement, project supporting materials (if the research is funded), and ethical review documents (if the research involves any studies on human or animal).
The Editorial Office will start the review of the manuscript after receiving the above materials mailed by the authors. If they are mailed by registered mail, please indicate the telephone number of the Editorial Office (010-68707221) to avoid rejection.
Submitted manuscripts should include clear and complete authors’mailing addresses, phone numbers, E-mail addresses, the ID card number of the first author (This is required when paying the author’s remuneration) and name of the organization for invoicing. When submitting the manuscripts, the authors could name reviewers who should be avoided for reviewing, and the Editorial Office will keep this information strictly confidential. Authors can also recommend reviewers, and the Editorial Office will consider whether to accept depending on specific situation.
After submission, the Editorial Office will conduct an initial review of the manuscripts. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, lack of scientific value or outside the journal’s scope will be rejected.
The Editorial Office will conduct peer review on the manuscripts which pass the initial review. Manuscripts that are found suitable for publishing in CJFH will be sent to two or more expert reviewers. The journal follows a single-blind peer review process. The comments (acceptance/rejection/amendments) received from reviewers will be conveyed to the corresponding author. If required, the authors are requested to provide a point by point response to reviewers’ comments and submit a revised version of the manuscript. This process will be repeated till both the reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscripts.
For manuscripts submitted by the editorial board members or editors of this journal, they must also follow all the review and editing procedures of CJFH. All editorial board members and editors of CJFH are not allowed to participate in the review, editing and employment decisions of the manuscripts written by themselves, their families or colleagues. Peer review will be conducted independently of the relevant editorial board, editors and their research teams.
All authors are required to declare their individual contribution to the article, and they must have materially participated in the research or article preparation. All authors should have made substantial contributions to the following aspects: conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; or final approval of the version to be submitted.
Changes to authorship: Any addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made before the manuscript has been accepted. To request such a change, the corresponding author must specify the reason for the change in the author list and send the letter of confirmation from all authors to the Editorial Office to indicate every author agrees to the revision. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this needs to include the confirmation from the authors being added or removed.
Authors’rights: After a manuscript is accepted, the authors of the manuscript need to sign a "Copyright Transfer Agreement" with the Editorial Office to transfer the copyright of the article to CJFH. The copyright belongs to the Editorial Office of CJFH, but the authors have the right to use their article under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) adopted by CJFH.
When research participants are humans, the authors should explain whether its procedure complied with the ethical standards formulated by relevant committee (institutional, regional or national) responsible for human trials. The approval document of the committee should be submitted (the approval number should be included in the article). Consent letter from research participants or their relatives must be obtained by the authors, but not submitted to the Editorial Office. When reporting animal experiments, the study should comply with guidelines published by relevant committee on animal rights, and the approval document should be submitted. For the above studies, authors are required to make an ethical statement at the end of the manuscript.
In addition, authors must protect the privacy of patients, cover their faces, and avoid exposing their names or ID numbers in specimens and imaging pictures.
CJFH accepts only original articles that are not under consideration by any other journal and that have not been published before, and submissions must not contain any instances of plagiarism.
The Editorial Office will check all manuscripts for repeated submissions, multiple submissions, plagiarism and other issues to prevent academic misconduct. The Editorial Office adopts the AMLC System provided by CNKI to check whether the manuscript involves any plagiarism. If plagiarism is found, the manuscript will be rejected. Authors must obtain and send the Editorial Office all required permissions for any overlapping material and properly identify them in the manuscript to avoid academic misconduct.
Articles published online or in print by CJFH are considered the final and complete version, and we generally do not accept requests for correction or retraction. However, CJFH would adopt corrections or retractions on published articles for the following necessary cases:
Correction: If it appears that there are honest scientific errors in the article, which would not lead to significant impacts on the results and conclusions of the article, the Editorial Office will publish corrections in the journal as soon as possible, detailing changes made to the original article and indicating the source of the article. CJFH will release the corrected new version of the article and specify changes to the original article and the date of the update. In addition, the superseded version will also be archived. Readers can obtain it directly, but only the latest version of the article should be used for citation.
Retraction: In the following cases, the Editorial Office would retract published articles and issue retraction statements:
1. If an article is found to have severe scientific errors, which makes the results and conclusions of the article unreliable;
2. For article suspected of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and data falsification, the Editorial Office will initiate an investigation and issue a statement to inform readers of the risks associated with the article. After completion of investigation, the results of the investigation will be made public. If it is confirmed that the article involves academic misconduct, the Editorial Office will retract the article and issue a retraction statement.
All articles published since 2013 are archived and can be found on the journal website. All information is backed-up in the Editorial Office for security reason. Print-copy and digital copy of all issues are archived in the Editorial Office. All other relevant information, such as author’s additional information and forms during submission, are also archived in the Editorial Office.
In addition to archiving on our official journal website, all articles published in the history of CJFH are stored in the database of CNKI. We also allow authors to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of the authors’choice. However, it is necessary to indicate the published information in the metadata of institutional or other repository and use it as a recommended way of citation.
All authors must disclose any conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest may exist when an author (or the author’s institution or employer) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could influence (or bias) the author’s decisions, work, or manuscript. Authors should also disclose conflicts of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.
Authors need to fill in and sign the Conflict of Interest Statement provided by the journal and submit it to the Editorial Office with the manuscript. In addition, authors are required to declare at the end of the article whether there are any conflicts of interest in the study, and if so, disclose all potential conflicts of interest.
Publication Fee: After the manuscript is accepted, the Editorial Office will charge the publication fee, which is 800 Yuan per page. The publication fee may be exempted or reduced for the following special cases:
Exemption: Innovative articles by special experts can be exempted from the publication fee.
Reduction: Authors who pay the fee themselves and cannot be reimbursed may apply for a reduction, and the fee may be appropriately reduced with the consent of the Editorial Office.
The authors can see the amount of the publication fee they need to pay on the journal website, and can make a remittance to the account of Chinese Medical Information and Big Data Association. If the author's institution needs the "Notice of Publication Fee Collection" provided by CJFH as a reimbursement certificate, the author could remit the payment after getting the mail of the publication fee collection notice from the Editorial Office, which is stamped with the seal of the Editorial Office. In addition, when making the remittance, the author must indicate the following information: “Publication fee to CJFH”, the author's name, and the invoice header.
Special Note: The invoice issued by us is now changed to "Beijing VAT Ordinary Invoice". In addition to the invoice title and taxpayer identification number, authors should consult the accountants of their institutions whether it is required to fill in the buyer's information (including address, phone number, bank name and account number). If necessary, please send an email to the Editorial Office (spws462@163.com) with the author's name.
Review Fee: Once the manuscript is accepted, the author needs to pay a review fee of 200 Yuan. The detailed policy on review fee is as follows:
1) The journal does not charge the review fee separately. After the manuscript is accepted, the review fee and the publication fee will be charged together and issued in the invoice of publication fee. All articles will be sent to experts for external review, and some need to be sent to more experts for review. The Editorial Office will pay all experts who review the manuscript. If the total fee paid to the experts exceeds 200 Yuan, the excess will be paid by the Editorial Office.
2) The review fee is exempted for the articles that are not accepted by the journal, and the fee paid to the experts who review these articles will be afforded by the Editorial Office.
3) Authors who withdraw their manuscripts need to pay a review fee of 200 Yuan. For manuscript that has been sent to experts for review, if the author proposes to withdraw the manuscript within 6 months after submission due to personal reasons or does not modify the manuscript for more than 3 months without justifiable reasons, the author shall pay a review fee of 200 yuan regardless of whether the manuscript is accepted or not.
Publication cycle of articles in CJFH is generally 3-6 months. A Green Channel is set up for innovative and excellent papers, with expedited review and priority publication. Manuscripts submitted through the Green Channel will have a short publication cycle, generally 1-2 months. If the author does not receive a reply from the Editorial Office within 6 months after submission, it indicates that the manuscript is still under review. During the review period, if the author intends to submit the manuscript to other journals, please contact the Editorial Office of CJFH first to avoid multiple submissions. If the author does not receive the notice of revision or publication after submission for more than 6 months, the author are free to handle the manuscript.
The Editorial Office has the right to revise the text of the manuscript. If any modification of article content is involved, it will be discussed with the author. According to the relevant provisions of the "Copyright Law", the responsibility of the manuscript is at the authors’ own risk, and the content of the articles does not represent the views of the Editorial Office and the sponsor of CJFH, unless it is specially stated. Once the manuscript is accepted, the Editorial Office will pay the author remuneration and present the author with a hard copy of the current issue of CJFH.
