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Manuscripts submitted to The Journal of Nutrition must be based on original, unpublished research and will be peer reviewed. Submission implies that the manuscript has not been posted on the Internet and that the data have not been published (other than in abstract form), are not under consideration by another journal, and will not be released before publication. See The Journal of Nutrition Embargo Policy

When preparing a manuscript for submission, authors are strongly encouraged to consult recent issues of The Journal of Nutrition for style and contents. Please review the The Journal of Nutrition Statement of Scope and carefully consider the suitability of the subject matter in the manuscript you are preparing to submit. Manuscripts are expected to present nutritionally relevant studies that add significantly to the current literature in one of The Journal's subject areas. The editorial goal of The Journal of Nutrition is that each publication will advance the science of nutrition. At the present time, about one-third of submitted manuscripts that have undergone initial editorial screening and have been assigned for external and editorial review are accepted for publication. Nearly all manuscripts that are accepted have undergone author revisions in response to comments of the reviewers and editors. Due to limitations in the number of pages The Journal of Nutrition can publish in each volume and an increasing rate of new submissions to The Journal of Nutrition, the suitability of an article's contents, the conciseness and clarity of the presentation, and the priority assigned to manuscripts by reviewers and editors are becoming increasingly important factors in the editorial decision process. In general, those manuscripts that are accepted for publication have received a high priority rating based on sufficient novelty of concept; high technical standards; clear, precise and concise writing; and careful presentation of data in tables and figures. About one-fifth of submitted manuscripts are returned to authors after a careful internal review by one or more editors, but without external review; the decision to repidly return a manuscript is generally based on the editorial team's determination that the subject matter is not well suited to The Journal of Nutrition, or that the manuscript is not sufficiently competitive in its present form to be recommended for revision and acceptance. The decision to rapidly return a manuscript will be made as expeditiously as possible.

The Journal publishes receipt date, date of completion of the initial review, and date of acceptance of the revised manuscript for each research article. The manuscript receipt date is the date all submission requirements are met, including payment of the manuscript submission fee and submission of a completed and signed Authors' Statement and Copyright Release form. Manuscripts that are not revised and returned within 120 days will be treated as new submissions unless prior permission has been granted by the editor for later resubmission. The date of acceptance will be the date when all requested revisions have been returned to the editorial office.

Copyright Transfer

The author(s), in consideration of the acceptance of the work for publication, will transfer to the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) all of the rights, title and interest in and to the copyright of the work in its submitted form, including online supporting material (data supplements) submitted with the work, and in any form subsequently revised for publication and/or electronic dissemination. This includes display of the accepted article and online supporting material in electronic form on the internet before and/or after print publication. For U.S. Government authors, the provision applies only to the extent that copyright is transferable.

Completed copyright release forms should be submitted as soon as possible. Revised manuscripts will not be processed until the completed Authors' Statement and Copyright Release Form is received. If the form was submitted with the original version of the manuscript and the title or author string is changed in the revised version, a new form must be submitted with the revised manuscript. The completed form can be sent to ASN by fax (301-634-7892) or by uploading a scanned copy of the form using the "Upload Copyright Form" link available in all Author Area queues in the online submission system.

Change of Authorship Form:

A Change in Authorship Form must be submitted if:

The Rights of Authors

Rights of Authors: effective upon acceptance for publication, the American Society for Nutrition will license the following nonexclusive rights back to authors:

1. Patent and trademark rights to any process or procedure described in the article
2. The right to photocopy or make single electronic copies of the article for their own personal use, including for their own classroom use, or for the personal use of colleagues, provided the copies are not offered for sale and are not distributed in a systematic way outside of their employing institution (e.g. via an email list or public file server). Posting of the article on a secure network (not accessible to the public) within the author’s institution is permitted.
3. The right, subsequent to publication, to use the article or any part thereof free of charge in a printed compilation of works of their own, such as collected writings, theses or lecture notes.
4. The right to reuse your original figures and tables in your future works.
5. The right to present data from your paper at a meeting or conference, including ones that are webcast.
6. The right to include your article in your thesis or dissertation
7. The right to reproduce reasonable print quantities for personal use for purposes other than those outlined in (b) if 100 reprints are purchased
8. Authors may post a link on a personal website that directs readers to the article on The Journal of Nutrition website (pubs.nutrition.org); full text of the final, published article can not be posted on personal or institutional websites or repositories that are accessible to the public.
9. For Works created under a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and accepted for publication after May 2, 2005, the author may submit the accepted version of the Work to NIH with the stipulation that the PI accepts any liability that may arise through release of the manuscript in its present form. To avoid this potential liability, the JN suggests that the PI delay submission of this manuscript to PubMed Central until our publication office has completed all required copyediting within the next several months. At that point, the corresponding author will be provided with a finished PDF version that will represent the material to be published in the JN. Provision of the final PDF version to PubMed Central will avoid all ambiguity that could otherwise result from the presence of one incomplete and the other complete copy of the manuscript.

   If the PI decides to submit the unedited version of the manuscript, a further stipulation to the release of the manuscript to the NIH is that it must contain the following statement at the top of the title page: “This is an un-copyedited author manuscript that has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Nutrition, copyright American Society for Nutrition (ASN). This manuscript may not be duplicated or reproduced, other than for personal use or within the rule of ‘Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials’ (section 107, Title 17, US Code) without permission of the copyright owner, the ASN. The final copyedited article, which is the version of record, can be found at http://jn.nutrition.org/. The ASN disclaims any responsibility or liability for errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or in any version derived from it by the National Institutes of Health or other parties.”

   Regardless of whether the un-copyedited version or the copyedited, final version of the manuscript is submitted to the NIH, the PI must abide by the JN policy of making articles free online on our website as well as in the NIH repository 12 months after publication. This will satisfy both the JN and NIH policies.

Authors must comply with the following requirements:
1. Figures or tables can not be used in advertisements
2. The citation appearing at the bottom of the first page of the article must appear with any figures or tables
3. When publishing either the entire article or specific parts of the article, complete credit should be given to the original source: J. Nutr. (vol, p, year), American Society for Nutrition.

Authorship Responsibility

1. The manuscript represents original, unpublished material that is not under editorial consideration elsewhere, in whole or in part other than in abstract form.
2. The article and the submission identify all co-authors who have substantially contributed to the concept, data collection and analysis, or preparation of the manuscript and therefore who may have intellectual property claims to the content.
3. All authors have read and approved the manuscript as submitted and are prepared to take public responsibility for the work.
4. Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure: Any existing financial arrangements between an author and a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript have been brought to the attention of the editor in the cover letter and have been disclosed in a footnote on the manuscript title page. In addition, all authors must declare all sources of funding for research reported in their manuscript and report all potential conflicts of interest in separate footnotes on the manuscript title page. If an author has no conflicts of interest, the footnote should list the author’s name, followed by “no conflicts of interest”. See Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure
5. The manuscript contains no material that would violate the copyright or any other right of any other person. Authors will obtain and include with the manuscript written permission from any respective copyright owners for the use of any textual, illustrative, or tabular materials that have been previously published or are otherwise copyrighted and owned by third parties. The copyrighted material is clearly identified and copyright ownership acknowledged within the text.
6. Individuals or institutions in the Acknowledgments or Personal Communications are aware that their names appear in the manuscript.
7. All authors understand that material submitted to The Journal of Nutrition is embargoed until three days prior to the mailing date of The Journal of Nutrition issue in which it appears. Embargoed information is not to be made public in any format, including print, television, radio, or via the Internet, before the embargo date. The American Society for Nutrition reserves the right to halt the consideration or publication of a paper if this condition is broken.
8. Either no portions of the manuscript other than the abstract have been posted on the Internet or portions of the manuscript other than the abstract have been posted on the Internet and the submission includes full disclosure of posting (date of posting and url, data or portion of manuscript posted).