The article should be genuine and novel research work and the rights of all individuals and organizations that contributed in the article should be considered.

Authorship and Publication Ethics

This journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.

 To publish an article in The Food Research Journal, authors are expected to consider the following guidelines and subjects.

1-Copyright,  & Licensing

Authors who publish articles in the Food Research Journal  agree with the following issues:

1. The authors should certify that they did not submit the article to other journals and will not send it to another journal until the status of the article is clarified in the Food Research Journal.

2. The authors will take the scientific and legal responsibility for all the subjects presented in this article, and if necessary, they will respond to the related authority.
3. All published papers in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Users are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, even commercially, as long as proper attribution is given to the authors and the journal.
4. Authors are encouraged to post their articles online in order to increase citations of published articles.
5. Authors are required to fill out and sign the conflict of interest and copyright form in the instructions for authors section.

Despite having copyright, authors grant the publisher* exclusive rights to their articles.
Authors are entitled to:
• Share their article in accordance with their "Personal Use Rights"**, provided that it includes the end user license and a DOI link to the version that is currently on record in this journal.
• Maintain intellectual property rights (including research data).
• Appropriate credit and attribution for the published work.
* Included in this is the ability to create and approve commercial use.
** Rights to personal use
The following examples of scholarly, non-commercial uses for authors' articles include:
• Application in a writer's classroom instruction (including distribution of copies, paper or electronic)
• Giving copies to reputable research colleagues for personal use (including via email).
• Inclusion in a dissertation or thesis
• Include in a later collection of the author's works
• Making the Article into a book-length work.
• Creation of other derivative works (but not for Commercial Use)
• Reusing a work's parts or excerpts in other contexts.

2-Originality

All submission articles should be novel and original work of the authors. The submitted articles should not and will not be considered for publication in other journals, either in Persian or any other language. All the authors are responsible for the originality of the work. Also, previously rejected articles from the Food Research Journal should not be submitted again in this journal. However, resubmission with clear justifications and explanations to the chief editor is possible.

 

3-Conflict of Interest

1. All authors named as co-authors of the article should be aware of the full text of the article and its submission to this journal.
2.  All authors should be acknowledged, and the authors' list should fairly reflect the authors' individual contributions.
3. The author's name and their order should not be changed after the submission of the article.
4.  Authors should acknowledge the financial supporters of the article.
5. Any changes to the institution of the authors should be informed to the Editor in Chief before publication of the article.
6. Authors are required to introduce three referees for the article, though there are no promises to send the article to the mentioned referees.
7. All articles from authors working or studying at the University of Tabriz will be reviewed by referees from outside institutions.
8. Authors are required to fill out and sign the conflict of interest and copyright form in the instructions for authors section.

4-Plagiarism

The Journal editorial boards of the Food Research Journal are responsible for evaluating the presence of plagiarism in articles (English articles evaluated by iThenticate and Persian articles evaluated by Saminoor). Authors are required to write a letter of anti-plagiarism declaration to the chief editor at the time of submission. In this letter, the author should declare that the article is extracted from the results of his/her own work. Also, citations, acknowledgements, and quotations are used properly in case of reporting work of others (books, articles, dissertations, etc.). Also, it should be mentioned that the article has not published yet, and it is not under evaluation for publication elsewhere.

 

Plagiarism issues for an article under the following cases:

• Copying and pasting without proper citation
•  Inserting the author/ authors' names who have no role in the article.
• Reporting the outcome and results of others to his/her own work.
• Reporting unreliable data, manipulating data, or producing false results.
• Copying or repeating the most significant part of another article.
• Purchasing another person’s text and using it as your own.
• Putting your name on another person’s manuscript.

In case of observing plagiarism in an article, based on the level of plagiarism, the editor-in-chief of the journal will legally pursue the following actions:

1. Rejected and, in case of publication, removed the article from the journal site.
2. Consider the author/ authors' names in the blacklist of the Food Research Journal.
3. Informing and reporting the author/ authors' names to the Ministry of Science and Information Technology, journals, institutes, and universities.