Food Economics

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Published By: Taylor & Francis

Volume Number: 8

Frequency: 4 issues per year

Print ISSN: 2164-828X

Online ISSN: 2164-8298

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Instructions for Authors

This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

All submissions should be made online at the Food Economics ScholarOne Manuscripts Site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

PREPARING FOR SUBMISSION

Food Economics accepts articles with a high scientific standard, relevant to practitioners and researchers within agricultural economics and related disciplines. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editors as well as external reviewers, and the peer-review process is set up to be double-blind, and thus protect the identity of the authors as well as the reviewers. Please make sure that you prepare a blinded copy of your text to facilitate a rapid evaluation process. All articles should follow the standard scientific formatting as suggested in the general guidelines below.

Food Economics welcomes four different types of articles:

Research articles are papers that represent original research with some novelty in theoretical or empirical methodology or data foundation.
Policy reviews are papers that review state of the art in a policy-relevant area within the fields of Food Economics, based on scientifically sound review methods. Examples may be systematic reviews of the scientific literature, systematic reviews of policy documents or systematic reviews of relevant data.
Perspective articles provide information about potential new subjects, challenges or inventions that have not yet been manifested, but are likely to do so in the future. Perspective articles may be of high relevance for both researchers as well as decision making although the theoretical and empirical data foundation might be rather immature. Examples of potential topics may concern bio-terrorism and migration effects on food safety and animal diseases.
Letters represent short articles with accounts of new original research and encouraging discussion of papers previously published within the fields covered by Food Economics. Letters are generally applied in nature, but may include discussion of method and theoretical formulation.

Please also note that Food Economics will apply a publishing fee for all articles accepted for publication, based on the number of final printed pages that appear in the journal. The fee is USD 80 per printed page, and will be charged to authors when the respective issue is printed. Articles pre-published online will be charged when appearing in a printed volume. Authors will be asked during the submission process to sign a form to confirm submission. This file should be signed by the corresponding author and uploaded online together with the manuscript files, and no manuscripts can be processed until this form is provided.

GENERAL GUIDELINES

Papers should be submitted in English. American or British English spelling and punctuation is accepted provided that usage is consistent throughout. The author is responsible for the quality of language, and if in doubt it is recommended that a language expert is consulted before submission of the final text.
A typical article is in the range of 5,000-7,000 words (exclusive of figures and references). Review articles can be longer, but letters are normally accepted when kept considerably shorter.
For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
For further general guidelines, please also visit our Author Services Website on how to prepare your manuscript for submission: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/writing.asp
All authors are asked to aspire to achieve fluency and economy of expression and to follow established scholarly principles of orderly and clear presentation. Authors are also encouraged to submit audio and video material, which may be published on our website along with the written text in the journal itself.

Manuscript Layout

Manuscripts should be typed with double line space with European A4 page size with and consisting of the following elements:

A title page including:
a) Title which should be concise and informative but as short as possible.
b) A list of all Authors' full names (first name, surname and initials) should be noted. Each author should be listed with affiliation(s) which should be numbered in the order they appear, sorted with Arabic numbers in superscript.
c) The Corresponding author should be noted with their full postal and e-mail address (note if part of that information should be excluded in the printed version)
The title page should be uploaded to the online submission service as a separate file from the main text to facilitate double-blind peer-review.
Abstract should be a short but informative text with the main abstract should not exceed 300 words, and typed on the first page of the blinded manuscript file. Abstracts will be evaluated by reviewers .Keywords listed in alphabetical order. Please include 3-7 words which are not already used in the title and that describes the general content of the article (this facilitates indexing in databases, for example)
The main text should normally be divided into the following headings: Introduction, Data, Results, Discussion, and Acknowledgements but headings may vary with different types of manuscripts. Subheadings should be clearly marked with bold type.
References to sources in the text should be written: Smith & Jones (1988); Hansson et al. (1990) if more than two authors; or (Smith & Jones 1988; Hansson et al. 1990). For further notes on required style in the list of references see below.
Legends to figures and tables clearly numbered and typed on separate sheets after the references.

A cover letter can also be uploaded in the online submission form, where any special circumstances should be explained to the Editor and permission requests for third party material should be noted.

Abbreviations and Symbols

Use only international standard abbreviations. Authors must adhere to SI units . Units are not italicised.
In decimals, use the decimal point, not the comma.
Use no Roman numerals.
Foreign words, Latin names of genera, species, mathematical symbols, etc. should be italicized. Personal names after Latin names should not be italicized.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

Reference List

The list of references should be kept to a pertinent minimum. In the text, references are identified by authors' names, not numbers. Titles of journals should be abbreviated following Biological Abstracts. If in doubt, give the title in full. Do not refer to unpublished material and avoid use of non-English publications, or provide a translation of the title within brackets. The reference list should be arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author, see examples below:

Standard journal article:
Henson, S. & Northen, J. 1998. Economic determinants of food safety controls in supply of retailer own-branded products in United Kingdom. Agribusiness 14, 113-126.

Book:
Hair, J. E., Anderson, R. E., Tatham, R. L., & Black, W. C. (1998). Multivariate data analysis. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

References lists not conforming to this format will be returned for revision.

Illustrations

Please upload photographic illustrations as separate files, in high resolution EPS or TIFF format. All graphs, drawings and photographs are considered figures and should be kept to a minimum, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. All figures should be labelled on the back with the number, author's name and indication of orientation. Any colour illustration must be paid for by the author (USD 750 per page). Figure legends should be uploaded as a separate file. Please use high resolution files (300 DPI or more. Images saved from web pages are usually not suitable for printing purposes.

Tables
If results are already given in graphs or diagrams, tables should not be used. Each table should be typed on a separate page, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and have a self-explanatory title. A short explanation of the table should be added as a legend, and included on a separate page after the references.

Conflict of interest and funding
Authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.

Permissions
It is the responsibility of the Author to seek permission to use figures, tables, long text extracts or other material published elsewhere. It is recommended that such use is cleared with the previous publisher and/or author before submission. For further advice on how to seek permission and which material it applies to, please turn to our author services site: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp

Copyright and authors' rights

It is a condition of publication that all contributing authors grant to Taylor & Francis the necessary rights to the copyright in all articles submitted to the Journal. Authors are required sign an Article Publishing Agreement to facilitate this. This will ensure the widest dissemination and protection against copyright infringement of articles. The “article” is defined as comprising the final, definitive, and citable Version of Scholarly Record, and includes: (a) the accepted manuscript in its final and revised form, including the text, abstract, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and (b) any supplementary material. Copyright policy is explained in detail at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp.

Free article access

As corresponding author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided guidance on how you can help.

Reprints and journal copies
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