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Instructions to authors

1 Legal requirements

The author(s) guarantee(s) that the manu-script will not be published elsewhere inany language without the consent of thecopyright owner, the American Oil ChemistsSociety;that the rightsof third parties will notbe violated, and that neither the AOCS northe publisher will be held legally responsibleshould there be any claims for compensa-tion. Authors wishing to include figures ortext passages that have already beenpublished elsewhere are required to obtainpermission from the copyright owner(s) andto include evidence that such permissionhas been granted when submitting theirpapers. Any material received without suchevidence will be assumed to originate fromthe authors. Manuscripts must be accom-panied by the Copyright Transfer State-ment. The form can be obtained fromspringer.com/journal/11746.

2 Open choice publication

In addition to the normal publication process(whereby an article is submitted to thejournal and access to that article is grantedto customers who have purchased a sub-scription), Springer now provides an alter-native publishing option: Springer Open

Choice. A Springer Open Choice articlereceives all the benefits of a regular sub-scription-based article, but in addition ismade available publicly through Springersonline platform SpringerLink. To publish viaSpringer Open Choice, upon acceptanceplease visit springer.com/openchoice tocomplete the relevant order form and pro-vide the required payment information.Payment must be received in full beforepublication, or articles will be published asregular subscription-model articles. We re-gret that Springer Open Choice cannot beordered for published articles.

3 Editorial procedure

Papers must present scientific results thatare essentially new. They have to be writtenin English using either American or Britishspelling throughout. Authors who havedifficulty with English should obtain theassistance of colleagues more proficient inthe language, e.g., in the English depart-

ments of their universities, in writing theirmanuscripts. All manuscripts are subject topeer review.Authors should submit their manuscripts tothe Editorial Office online to facilitate evenquicker and more efficient processing.Electronic submission substantially reducesthe editorial processing and reviewing timesand shortens overall publication times.Please log directly on to

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaocs.Upload your manuscript following theon-screen instructions.

Support: If you face any problems whilesubmitting your manuscript, pleasecontact: Manuscript Central:Support@ScholarOne.comManuscripts that are returned to the authorsfor revision should be sent back within 6weeks for minor and 3 months for majorrevisions; otherwise they will be consideredwithdrawn. Rejected manuscripts will not bereturned to the authors (except for originalillustrations).Papers that do not conform to the journalnorms may be returned to the authors forrevision before being considered for pub-lication.The author is responsible for the accuracyof the references.

4 Manuscript preparation

General RemarksJAOCS publishes original research articles,invited reviews, and letters to the editor thatadd significantly to the body of knowledgeconcerning the science and technology offats, oils, oilseed proteins, and relatedmaterials. Included are reports of advances,innovations, or important new informationpertaining to analysis, properties, proces-sing, products, and applications of thesefood and industrial resources. Break-throughs in food science and technology,biotechnology (including biocatalysis and

bioprocessing), and industrial products andapplications are particularly appropriate.Letters to the editor provide brief reports ofsignificant new findings, new interpretationsof published data, or new features ofequipment, instrumentation, or techniques.Because of their brevity, letters to the editorcan receive expedited review.The manuscript must be identified with oneof the six subject areas on the manuscriptsubmission form as (1) Biotechnology andBiocatalysis, (2) Nonfood or IndustrialApplications, (3) Analytical and Physical

Chemistry, (4) Processing and EngineeringTechnology, (5) Food, Feed Science, andNutrition, or (6) Nutraceuticals and Func-tional Foods. Failure to identify the manu-script by one of the above-mentionedsubject areas will result in a delay inprocessing.Original researcharticles should normallynot exceed 10 printed pages including nomore than 8 figures, schemes and tables.The number of references should notexceed 1520.Letters to the Editors should not exceed 3

printed pages in length (800 words areapproximately equivalent to one printedpage).All manuscripts are subject to copy editing.

Spectra. Submission of spectra as pro-duced by a computer running a spectro-meter or by a data station is encouraged.Routine infrared, electronic, NMR, andmass spectra of new compounds should benumerically summarized, as appropriate, inthe Experimental Procedures section.

Acronyms such as GLC, HPLC, GCMS,in place of full spelling for instruments,equipment, etc., may be used withoutspelling the terms out because these aregenerally recognized terms.

Chemical formulae and names as well asthe names of organisms must be unambig-uous and in accordance with the relevantinternational recommendations, cf. "IUPAC(1993) Quantities, Units and Symbols inPhysical Chemistry, 2nd edn., BlackwellScientific, Oxford" and "ISO (1993) Interna-tional Vocabulary of Basic and GeneralTerms in Metrology," Geneva. Trade namesshould be avoided: abbreviations and un-common symbols should be explained atfirst mention.

DNA sequences must be submitted toGenBank (NCBI - National Center forBiotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA)or to the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Data

Base (EBI - European Institute of Bioinfor-matics, Cambridge, UK), and accessionnumbers must be provided when the paperis accepted.

When drugs are mentioned, the interna-tional (generic) name should be used. Theproprietary name, chemical composition,and manufacturer should be stated in full inthe Experimental Procedures section.

Genus and species names should be initalics. The common names of animalsshould not be capitalized.

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Units and abbreviations. Please adhere tointernationally agreed standards such asthose adopted by the commission of theInternational Union of Pure and AppliedPhysics (IUPAP) or defined by the Interna-tional Organization of Standardization(ISO). Metric SI units should be usedthroughout except where non-SI units aremore common [e.g. liter (I) for volume].

Names of instruments and equipment,and their manufacturers, no longer need tobe noted in the Experimental Proceduressection. However, sources of chemicals,

columns, packing materials, and the likeshould be included, along with locations ofthese suppliers.

Title PageThe title page should include:

The name(s) of the author(s) (an aster-isk indicates the corresponding author)

A concise and informative title (limited to100 characters)

The affiliation(s) and address(es) of theauthor(s)

The e-mail address, telephone, and faxnumbers of the corresponding author

AbstractMaximal length of the abstract is 200 words;

no literature references should be containedin the abstract. The abstract should brieflystate the objective and approach and give asuccinct summary of results and majorconclusions drawn. Emphasis should be onwhat was found, not what was done. Lettersto the Editors should be preceded by a shortabstract (no more than 100 words).

Key wordsUp to 10 key words that describe thesubject matter of their paper should besupplied after the Abstract for indexingpurposes. Within the Online Submissionsystem authors are asked additionally toselect key words from a key word list.These key words are not printed but used

only for matching reviewers from thereviewer database.

Abbreviations should be defined at firstmention in the abstract and again in themain body of the text and used consistentlythereafter (see also Scientific Style andFormat: The CBE Manual for Authors,Editors and Publishers, 6th edn., Cam-bridge University Press, Cambridge, UK,1994). The formal name and EC number ofenzymes are used at first mention, and thetrivial name can be used subsequently, ifmore convenient.

A list of symbols should follow the abstractif such a list is needed. Symbols must bewritten clearly. The international system ofunits (SI units) should be used.

Essential footnotes to the text should benumbered consecutively and placed at thebottom of the page to which they refer.

The Introduction should state the purposeof the investigation and give a short reviewof the pertinent literature. It should belimited to identifying the gap in scientificknowledge or the problem that the researchaddressed. No more than 810 referencesshould need to be cited.

Experimental Procedures. Sufficient de-tail or literature references to such meth-ods should be included in theExperimental Procedures section to permitother scientists to repeat or extend theexperiments. This section should alsocontain an overview of the experimentalapproach used, especially in the case ofcomplex or unusual designs. Data shouldnot be reported to more significant figuresthan justified by the experimental proce-dures used.

Results & Discussion The Results andDiscussion section should describe andanalyze the outcomes of the study anddiscuss how these outcomes correspond tothe gap or problem identified in the intro-duction. Appropriate statistical analysis ofthe results is required. Data should bepresented as concisely as possible, ifappropriate in the form of tables or figures,although very large tables should beavoided.

Conclusion The Conclusion section shouldconcisely describe the main contribution/outcome of the results to the advancementof the field; it should not simply summarizeeach and every point of the study. TheConclusion should also briefly denotepotential impact of the results; however,it should not include statements related tofuture planned research or publications.One to two paragraphs, at the most, shouldbe sufficient for a good Conclusion section.

Acknowledgements. These should be asbrief as possible. Any grant that requiresacknowledgement should be mentioned.The names of funding organizations shouldbe written in full.

Funding. Authors are expected to discloseany commercial or other associations thatmight pose a conflict of interest in connec-tion with submitted material. All fundingsources supporting the work and institu-

tional or corporate affiliations of the authorsshould be acknowledged.

References. The list of references shouldinclude only works that are cited in the textand that have been published or acceptedfor publication. Personal communicationsor Unpublished data should only bementioned in the text.If available the Digital Object Identifier (DOI)can be added at the end of the reference inquestion. Example:Ward J, Robinson PJ (2004) How to detecthepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis. EurRadiol 14: 2936. DOI 10.1007/s00330-004-1450-y

A paper published online but not yet in printcan be cited using the DOI:Ward J, Robinson PJ (2004) How to detecthepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis. EurRadiol DOI 10.1007/s00330-004-1450-y

References should be numbered in theorder in which they appear in the text andlisted in numerical order. Journal titlesshould be abbreviated according to CASSI(Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index).References with correct punctuation shouldbe styled as follows:

Journal articlesNelson LA, Foglia TA, Marmer WN (1996)Lipase-Catalyzed Production of Biodiesel.J Am Oil Chem Soc 73:11911195

BooksFirestone D (2006) Physical and ChemicalCharacteristics of Oils, Fats and Waxes,2nd edn. AOCS Press, Champaign

Multiauthor booksGunstone FD (1986) Chemical Properties.In: Gunstone FD, Harwood JL (eds) TheLipid Handbook. Chapman & Hall, London,

pp 449484PatentsKarnofsky GB, Hansotte RJ (1982) Processfor Extracting Oleaginous Seed Materials.Particularly Cottonseed with Aqueous Al-cohol. U.S. Patent 4,359,417

WebpageNational Institute of Health (accessed Jan.2003) Menopausal Hormone Therapy.http://www.nih.gov/PHTindex.htm

Illustrations and TablesAll figures (photographs, graphs, ordiagrams) and tables should be cited in thetext, and each numbered consecutivelythroughout. Lowercase letters (a, b, etc.)

should be used to identify figure parts. Ifillustrations are supplied with uppercaselabeling, lowercase letters will still be usedin the figure legends and citations.Size of figures. The figures should eithermatch the width of the column (8.6 cm) orbe 13.1 cm or 17.6 cm wide. The maximumlength is 23.6 cm.Figure legends must be brief, self-suffi-cient explanations of the illustrations. Thelegends should be placed at the end of thetext.Online publication of color illustrations isfree of charge. For color in the print version,authors will be expected to make a con-tribution (a 950, US$ 1150, plus 19% VAT)toward the extra costs, irrespective of the

number of color figures.Tables should have a title and a legendexplaining any abbreviation used in thattable. Footnotes to tables should beindicated by superscript lowercase letters(or asterisks for significance values andother statistical data).

EquationEquations should be numbered sequentiallyby Arabic numbers in parentheses. Thewords equation and equations shouldbe abbreviated Eq. and Eqs., followed bythe number except at the beginning of asentence.

5 Technical instructions for preparingyour manuscript

Text and figures must be sent as separatefiles.

Text1. Use a normal, plain font (e.g., Times

Roman) for text. Other style options: for textual emphasis use italic types. for special purposes, such as for

mathematical vectors, use boldfacetype.

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2. Use the automatic page numberingfunction to number the pages.

3. Do not use field functions.4. For indents use tab stops or other

commands, not the space bar.5. Use the table functions of your word

processing program, not spreadsheets,to make tables.

6. Use the equation editor of your wordprocessing program or MathType forequations.

7. Place any figure legends or tables at theend of the article.

8. Submit all figures as separate files anddo not integrate them within the text.

Data formatsSpringer offers a template that can be usedwith Word 2000 and higher versions atSpringer.com. See: Our services for:AuthorsText:Save as: RTF (Rich Text Format) orMicrosoft Word compatible formatsFigures:EPS or TIFF.

IllustrationsThe preferred figure formats are EPS forvector graphics exported from a drawing

program and TIFF for halftone illustrations.EPS files must always contain a previewin TIFF of the figure. The file name (onefile for each figure) should include thefigure number. Figure legends should beincluded in the text at the end and not inthe figure file.

Scan resolution: Scanned line drawingsshould be digitized with a minimumresolution of 1200 dpi relative to the finalfigure size. For digital halftones, 300 dpi isusually sufficient.

Color illustrations:Store color illustrationsas RGB (8 bits per channel) in TIFFformat.

Vector graphics: Fonts used in the vectorgraphics must be embedded. Please donot draw with hairlines. The minimum linewidth is 0.2 mm (i.e., 0.567 pt) relative tothe final size.

6 Electronic supplementary material

Electronic supplementary material (ESM)for an article in the journal will be publishedin SpringerLink provided the material is:

submitted to the Editor(s) in electronicform together with the paper and issubject to peer review,

accepted by the journals Editor(s).

ESM may consist of information that cannot be printed:

animations, video clips, sound record-ings

information that is more convenient inelectronic form: sequences, spectral

data, etc. large original data that relate to the

paper, e.g. additional tables, illustrations(color and black & white), etc.

After acceptance by the journals Editor(s)ESM will be published as received from the

author in the online version only. Referencewill be given in the printed version.

7 Proofreading

Authors should make their proof correc-tions on a printout of the PDF file or usethe online correction facilities providedwith the proof. They should check that thetext is complete and that all figures andtables are included.After online publication, further changes

can only be made in the form of anErratum, which will be hyperlinked to thearticle.The author is entitled to formal correc-tions only. Substantial changes in con-tent, e.g. new results, corrected values,title, and authorship are not allowedwithout the approval of the responsibleeditor. In such a case please contact theEditorial Office before returning theproofs to the publisher.

8 Offprints, Free copy

One complimentary copy is supplied free ofcharge. Orders for offprints can be placedby returning the order form with the cor-

rected proofs.

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