The Journal of Applied Food Technology (JAFT) welcomes original research articles, review papers, and short communications in the following major areas of applied food science and technology:
1. Food Technologies, Quality, and Safety
Additives/ingredients/functional food, packaging/handling, supply and transport technologies, storage technologies/preservatives, process for optimisation of food quality/quantity, biotechnology, detection and analysis methods, microbiology/toxicology methods, traceability and safe production methods, nutrition and diets, phytodrugs, nutraceuticals, diagnostics.
2. Food Service Management
Systems for food production, food and restaurant operations, supply and distribution chain, food communities and societies, revenue management, human resources, training, marketing of food, halal food and industries.
3. Food Bio-resources, Bio-energy, and Waste/by product Technology
Feed system to support food resources, animal/cattle handling in term of supplying food safety and food security, farm management and technology on producing high quality of food resources, waste/byproduct management and process, process for optimising bio-energy production.
4.Ethnic and Traditional Food
Food history and ethnic, traditional food, unique food process (including serving and handling), trend in recent unique food, and culinary.
All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Applied Food Technology (JAFT) are subject to a rigorous peer-review process to ensure scientific quality, originality, and relevance. Upon submission, each manuscript is initially screened by the editorial team to assess its compliance with the journal’s aims, scope, and author guidelines. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria are returned to the authors within one week of receipt.
Manuscripts that pass the initial screening undergo a plagiarism check prior to peer review. The editorial team uses Turnitin and cross-checks through the Google Scholar network to ensure originality and adherence to publication ethics. Submissions that meet ethical and originality standards are then assigned to an Associate Editor.
The Associate Editor appoints at least two independent referees with relevant expertise. JAFT applies a double-blind peer-review system, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers are kept confidential. Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on originality, methodological soundness, scientific contribution, and relevance to applied food technology. To support timely publication, reviewers are requested to complete their evaluations within three weeks. Based on the referees’ reports, the Associate Editor submits a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief.
The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision and communicates it to the authors together with the reviewers’ comments. Editorial decisions include Accept Submission, Revisions Required, Resubmit for Review, Resubmit Elsewhere, or Decline Submission. Authors are requested to submit revised manuscripts within one month of the decision. Revised submissions are typically returned to the original reviewers for further evaluation.
Journal of Applied Food Technology publishes issue in June and December.
The archieved back issues is available at previous URL: http://appliedfoodtechnology.org/
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There is no submission fee for manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Applied Food Technology (JAFT). An article processing charge (APC) is applied only after a manuscript has successfully passed the peer-review process and has been accepted for publication. The APC is waived for manuscripts with first and/or corresponding authors affiliated with international institutions. This fee policy applies to all manuscripts submitted on or after 1 April 2024.
Editor may implement a cost policy for English writing improvement in order to increase the quality of writing.
Editor charges Rp. 750.000,00 (approximately USD 50) for each published article. The payment should be made through bank transfer to our treasury account:
Account holder: Nurul Hasniah
Bank Name: BNI
Account number: 2019960193
A receipt will be provided upon request. Please contact the Editor or email jaft@live.undip.ac.id for assistance.
Journal of Applied Food Technology or JAFT is a peer-reviewed international journal. This declaration explains the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal as well as assertion of research malpractices, including the author(s), the chief editor, the editorial board, the peer-reviewers and the publisher (Food Technology Department, Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Diponegoro University). This statement is originated on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Ethical Guideline for Publication in JAFT
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential establishing block in the development of a coherent and respected matrix of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is, therefore, essential to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.
Diponegoro University as publisher of JAFT takes its responsibilities of guardianship over all steps of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. Also, the Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, and editorial board in JAFT will assist in communications with other journal(s) and/or publisher(s) where this is useful and necessary.
Allegations of Research Misconduct
Misconducted investigation or research means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing article by authors, or in reporting research results or data. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, JAFT editors have a serious responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.
In cases of suspected misconduct, the JAFT editors and editorial board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them to resolve the complaint and address the misconduct as fair as possible. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the JAFT editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.
The initial step involves determining the validity of the allegation and an assessment of whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.
If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the coauthors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article are sufficient.
Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, JAFT will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.
Publication decisions
The editor of the JAFT is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Complaints and Appeals
JAFT will have a clearly procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, Editorial Board or Publisher. The complaints will be clarified to respected personal with respect to case of complaint. The scope of complaints include anything related to journal business process, i.e. editorial process, found citation manipulation, unfair editor/reviewer, peer-review manipulation, etc. The complaint cases will be processed according to COPE guideline.
Fair Play
An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Duties of Authors
Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention
Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. Authors are responsible for data reproducibility.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship and Contributorship of the Article
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published work
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Ethical Clearance
If the research work involves chemicals, human, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript in order to obey ethical conduct of research using animals and human subjects. If required, Authors must provide legal ethical clearance from association or legal organization.
If the research involves confidential data and of business/marketing practices, authors should clearly justify this matter whether the data or information will be hidden securely or not.
Journal of Applied Food Technology (JAFT) was first published in 2014 and is issued biannually, with regular publications in June and December. In its early years, JAFT was published independently and accessible via http://appliedfoodtechnology.org.
As part of its continuous development and quality enhancement, JAFT was later integrated into the official journal ecosystem of Diponegoro University. Since 2018, the journal has been officially hosted on the university’s e-journal platform and is accessible at https://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/jaft, strengthening its governance, visibility, and adherence to international publishing standards.
Since the journal has migrated to the recent URL, the style of references has also changed to the following URL :
https://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/jaft/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
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