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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The manuscript has been prepared according to the provided template
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The cover letter which states the main finding and novelty.
  • Statement contribution of the authors.

Author Guidelines

A Brief Summary

Journal of Food and Pharmaceutical Sciences (JFPS), abbreviated as J.Food.Pharm.Sci., is an open-access, peer-reviewed international journal in the field of pharmacy, published quarterly. Established in 2013, JFPS aims to provide up-to-date scientific insights for researchers in food, pharmaceutical, and related scientific fields. JFPS is currently indexed in SINTA, Garuda, DOAJ, Dimensions, Google Scholar, and Index Copernicus. The journal accepts original research articles, short communications, and review articles, and only considers manuscripts written in English. The journal covers a wide range of topics, including: New Horizons in Food Research; Food Chemistry; Integrated Food Science; Health, Nutrition, and Food; Food Engineering, Materials Science, and Nanotechnology; Toxicology and Chemical Food Safety; Food Microbiology and Safety; Drug Discovery; Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling; Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Protein-Peptide Chemistry; Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics, Drug Delivery, and Pharmaceutical Technology; Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology; Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Transport Metabolism; Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry; Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Natural Medicine and Nutraceuticals; Chemical Processing of Pharmaceuticals (including Crystallization, Lyophilization, and Chemical Stability of Drugs); Immunology, Biochemistry, and Cell and Molecular Biology. All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening, followed by a double-blind peer review process involving at least two reviewers.

Manuscript Style

The manuscript should be prepared in English. Please have your manuscript proofread by a native English speaker or a professional proofreading service to ensure clarity of the writing.
· Original research articles – original research papers which have not been published previously and should not exceed 6000 words (including allowance for no more than 6 tables and figures or other illustrations). The reference included in the original article lied between 20-40 references.
· Review articles – will be taken into account for publication in the field of the journal’s scope. The review should not exceed 12,000 words (including allowance for no more than 6 tables and figures or other illustrations). The number of references used should be between 50-100. The authors must obtain permissions for reusing copyrighted figures and tables from published papers. 
· Short communications – the length of the communications should be up to 1500 words, describing work that may be of a preliminary nature but merits immediate publication.


The manuscript should be structured into the following sections:
(a) An abstract (200 - 300 words); embodying the concise description of the problem/purpose of the work, methods used, major findings and conclusions,  accompanied by 3 -5 keywords
(b) Introduction; providing gap analysis, a brief statement of previous relevant work with references, and research objective(s)
(c) Material and Methods. For the study that involves animal or human subjects, an appropriate ethical clearence should be obtained.
(d) Results and Discussion
(e) Conclusion
(f) Acknowledgments (including a declaration of Generative AI usage, if applicable)
(g) Conflict of interest
(h) References

The manucript should be prepared using the provided template.
All illustrations including figures, charts and graphs, must be properly labeled, numbered in a consecutive manner (i.e. 1, 2, 3 etc) based on the order they appear and are mentioned in the main text, and accompanied with appropriate captions. Similarly, tables must also be properly labeled. Please check the manuscript template for more details. All figures must have minimum resolutions of 300 dpi. Tables should be provided in editable forms.

The reference list or bibliography and in-text citation must be formatted using the  IEEE style. The reference list should appear at the end of the manuscript and includes only literatures that are cited in the main text. We highly recommend the authors to use a reference management tool such as Mendeley, EndNote, or Zotero to avoid inconsistency in the in-text citation and bibliography formatting. Examples on reference lists and in-text citation format are provided in the manucript template and some of the examples are also provided below.  Eighty percent of references used should be newer than 10 years. 

Table are formated according to general agreement on publication where the horizontal line is kept in minimum and contained no vertical line.


Journal article
E. A. Sianipar and S. I. Gunardi, “Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of Sargassum polycystum ethyl acetate extract from Indonesia,” J Herbmed Pharmacol, vol. 12, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.34172/jhp.2023.44.

Article in Press:
A. Syarifuddin, A. Nurrochmad, and N. Fakhrudin, “Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Herbal Medicine for Inflammation From 2004 to 2023,” Indonesian Journal of Pharmacy, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.22146/ijp.12140

Book chapters:
M. F. Ramadan and M. A. Farag, “Introduction to cinnamon: production, processing, and functional properties,” in Cinnamon, Academic Press, 2025, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-443-21820-0.00003-9.

Books:
L. Sherwood, Fisiologi manusia dari sel ke sistem (ed. 9). EGC, 2018. Accessed: Jun. 11, 2024. [Online]. Available: //lisa.poltekkesjakarta3.ac.id%2Fperpustakaan%2Findex.php%3Fp%3Dshow_detail%26id%3D9852

Thesis
D. Olagbende, “Isolation and Characterization of the Anti-diabetic Principle(s) in the Aqueous Extract of Graptophyllum Pictum (linn.) Griff. (Acanthaceae) Leaf.,” Thesis, University of Lagos School of Postgraduate Studies, 2011. Accessed: Aug. 08, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4339

Internet
Anonim, “Hemorrhoids and what to do about them,” Harvard Health Publishing. Accessed: Jun. 14, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/hemorrhoids_and_what_to_do_about_them

 

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