Nutraceutical Business and Technology (NBT) welcomes manuscripts that provide innovative, practical information, case studies and analysis regarding the technology, business, industry trends and legislation that is pertinent to the global nutraceutical, functional food and beverage and health ingredient sector. Articles should keep readers informed and up to date with product development and management; market analysis; regulatory affairs; business, legal and financial issues; scientific breakthroughs and applied research.

Before submitting a completed work, authors are urged to review manuscripts for clarity of expression, details of grammar and typographical accuracy. Acronyms and abbreviations used in manuscripts should be defined.

The main aim of NBT is to provide industry professionals with information that helps them to do their job more effectively. The secondary purpose is to keep them informed about trends within their industry. So, what do we publish? NBT is predominantly filled with technical articles, guest editorials, columns, application notes and case studies. We commission industry experts to write guest editorials and technical articles.

Conditions of Acceptance

• • Your article will be reviewed to assess whether it is suitable for publication in Nutraceutical Business and Technology. It is accepted for review on condition that it has not previously been published, is not under consideration or submitted for publication elsewhere.   

• • If your article is accepted for publication, copyright on the material in all media, in perpetuity, will immediately pass to Via Media UK Ltd, publishers of NBT. Should you then wish to use any of the material for publication elsewhere, you will be obliged to seek permission from the Editorial Director.

• • The author is responsible for all statements in his or her work. All accepted manuscripts are subject to copy editing. NBT is not responsible for the safety of manuscripts, artwork or photographs.   

• • The content of a given issue, including details of accepted manuscripts, will be used as marketing material by NBT to generate sales leads and advertising revenue. The author acknowledges that his or her article may attract interest from competing companies or organizations.

   

Submission Procedure

Before investing time and energy in a query or finished manuscript, you should be aware of what has been published on a proposed topic during the last few months. Your article must build on and go beyond what our readers already know. It is suggested that you e-mail a covering letter and detailed outline that clearly describes the content and structure of the proposed article. Focus on what the readers will learn and how they can use the information to do their jobs more effectively. Be sure to include your street and e-mail addresses, phone and fax number, website and a brief biographical paragraph with your title and the name of your company. Please include information for both author (or corresponding author, if more than one) and contact liaison.

If the outline is approved, you will be asked to e-mail a draft as an attached Word file. Solid, useful articles substantiated with facts, examples and quotes from authorities in the field have the best chance of publication. Send digital (300 dpi TIFF, JPEG or EPS file) or actual photographs, graphs, diagrams and any other material that might help to illustrate the article. (All illustrations should be referred to at the first appropriate place in the text.) Break up some of the copy in sidebars or boxes to highlight important or auxiliary information.
   

Article Length

Articles of up to 1800–2500 words (excluding figures and tables) are the norm. Longer articles are often split into two parts that are published in consecutive issues.

Abstract

Please provide a single paragraph (100–200 words) that describes, in summary the focus, content and conclusions of the paper — such as: “This article will ...” summarizing its value for the reader.

Illustrations

Each figure and table should be on a separate sheet of paper at the end of the article. Figures should be consecutively numbered using Arabic numerals (Figure 1, Figure 2). Tables should be treated in the same way but numbered using Roman numerals (Table I, Table II). Equations, tables and any other material that requires special characters or formatting can be included electronically, but a printout must also be supplied.

References

Literature citations should be numbered consecutively and indicated by superscript Arabic numerals. References should be grouped at the end of the manuscript and arranged in order of their appearance in the text. The following information should be included in references:

• names of all authors (and editors of books)

• complete title of the article (or book)

• name of publication, publisher and publisher’s location (for books)

• volume and issue numbers (for journals)

• year of publication

• first and last page numbers of the article, chapter or section cited.

Good to go?

A good method for checking whether your article is suitable for NBT is to ask yourself the same questions that a reviewer will ask. These are as follows:

1. Is this material significant to NBT readers who are relative newcomers to the industry?

2. Is the manuscript structured to lead the reader logically through the material?

3. Does the article appear to be promotional? Any article that promotes a company, product or service faces automatic rejection. Likewise, general articles with no specific reference to the nutraceutical industry will also be rejected.

4. If technical information is presented, do the data support the article's conclusions? Is the paper adequately referenced?

5. Do any figures and tables supplement the text appropriately?

6. Does the title accurately reflect the manuscript's content as briefly as possible?

7. Is the manuscript applications-oriented, of practical use to the industry and/or about a new or improved process or technique?

General tips

1. Use the active voice in the third person (not I, we or you).
2. Use a lively, clear and straightforward tone. Avoid clichés and define all jargon.
3. Remove all headers and footers.
4. Do not embed your endnotes.
5. Do not embed (insert) scanned figures, photos or tables into the text version, but send those
   as a separate file.

    

Articles will not be scheduled for publication until they are accepted. Even then, the editors cannot guarantee that an article will run in a given issue. Please enquire for further details.

More Information

If you have any questions about an article you are thinking of submitting, please contact

Dr Kevin Robinson
Editorial Director
Nutraceutical Business & Technology
T. +44 (0)1392 202 591
E. kevin.robinson@via-medialtd.com

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