Food and Nutrition Bulletin
AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Editorial Policy

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Editorial office:
Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Michelle Badash, Managing Editor
150 Harrison Ave. – Room 231
Boston, MA, 02111, USA
Tel: 617-636-3778
E-mail: FNB@inffoundation.org

Subscriptions:
Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation
150 Harrison Ave. – Room 231
Boston, MA, 02111, USA
Tel: 617-636-3807
E-mail: fnbsubscriptions@inffoundation.org

The Food and Nutrition Bulletin is published quarterly by the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation in association with United Nations University. All correspondence concerning the content of the Bulletin, comments, news, and notices, as well as requests for reprint permission should be sent to the Managing Editor at the email address given above.

Mission
The Food and Nutrition Bulletin is intended to make available policy analyses, state-of-the-art summaries, and original scientific articles relating to multidisciplinary efforts to alleviate the problems of hunger and malnutrition in the developing world. It is not intended for the publication of scientific articles of principal interest only to individuals in a single discipline or within a single country or region. Reviews or notices of relevant books and other publications will be published if they are received for review. The Bulletin is also a vehicle for notices of forthcoming international meetings that satisfy the above criteria and for summaries of such meetings.

The Food and Nutrition Bulletin also serves as a principal outlet for the publication of reports of working groups and other activities of the SCN. The SCN itself is a focal point for coordinating activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations University (UNU), the World Bank, the World Food Programme (WFP), and other bodies of the United Nations system that have an interest in food and nutrition. The Bulletin also publishes reports of working groups and tasks forces operating under the IUNS, a collaborating institution.

Submissions
Unsolicited manuscripts of articles of the type published in this and previous issues may be sent to the Managing Editor at the email address given above electronically. We do not accept hard copy submissions.  Figures and tables must also be submitted electronically. Authors must confirm that all submissions are original work, and have not been published or submitted to any other publication.

Content
Any disciplinary or conceptual approach relevant to problems of world hunger and malnutrition is welcome, and controversy over some of the articles is anticipated. Letters to the editor are encouraged and will be printed if judged to have an adequate basis and to be of sufficient general interest.

Also of interest are “Short Communications,” defined as papers that explore a topic with the customary scientific rigor but that do not need extensive analysis and discussion of the data or that have useful information that is not sufficient for a full article. These would be identified as such at the beginning of each article.

Peer review
The Bulletin is a peer-reviewed journal. The FNB editors initially review each new submission, and if acceptable, send out the manuscripts to at least two experienced and knowledgeable peer reviewers.

Once the FNB receives the comments from peer reviewers, the FNB editors and editor-in-chief make a final decision regarding publication. At this stage, the corresponding author may be asked to make certain revisions based on peer reviewer suggestions to be accepted for publication. If a manuscript is not accepted for publication, the corresponding author will receive a letter from the editor which will include an explanation for the decision.

Page charges
The Bulletin has a page charge of US $120 per printed page for unsolicited original research articles.  (One printed page in the Bulletin is equivalent to approximately 3 double-spaced manuscript pages, or an estimated 960 words, excluding graphics.) 

Page charges do not apply to solicited articles. Authors contributing to special issues and supplements are not responsible for page charges.

Waivers
Authors from developing countries who do not have support to cover page charges may request a page charge waiver form, to be completed and submitted when a manuscript has been accepted for publication. Each waiver request will be decided on a case-by-case basis by FNB editors. Articles acknowledging major financial support or from authors in industrialized countries will not be eligible for waivers. It is expected that authors will include publication costs when applying for research grants, so authors who publish regularly in the FNB should not expect to receive more than one page charge waiver.

Disclaimer
It is expressly understood that articles published in the Bulletin do not necessarily represent the views of the UNU, SCN, or any United Nations organization. The views expressed and the accuracy of the information on which they are based are the responsibility of the authors. Some articles in the Bulletin are reports of various international committees and working groups and represent the consensus of the individuals involved; whether or not they also represent the opinions or policies of the sponsoring organizations is expressly stated.

Content and Style Guidlines

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The editors of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin (FNB) welcome contributions relating to nutrition in the developing world (please see Content guidelines below.) Submission of an article does not guarantee publication; acceptance depends on the judgment of the editors and reviewers as to its relevance and quality. Contributors should examine recent issues of the Bulletin for content and style, and should also review the FNB Editorial Policy prior to submitting an article.

The following is an outline of the content and style guidelines and formatting required for all FNB submissions. Please review carefully, and prepare your manuscript according to these guidelines. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will be returned to the author for correction.

Content guidelines:

The Food and Nutrition Bulletin accepts policy analyses, state-of-the-art summaries, and original scientific articles relating to multidisciplinary efforts to alleviate the problems of world hunger and malnutrition in the developing world. All potentially acceptable manuscripts are peer-reviewed.

Articles published in the FNB must be broadly applicable; scientific articles of interest only to individuals in a single discipline or within a single country or region will not be accepted.

Other Content: In addition to the types of articles outlined above, Letters to the Editor are encouraged and will be printed if judged to have an adequate basis and to be of sufficient general interest. Also of interest are “Short Communications,” defined as papers that explore a topic with the customary scientific rigor but that do not need extensive analysis and discussion of the data or that have useful information that is not sufficient for a full article. These would be identified as such at the beginning of each article.

Formatting  guidelines:

Language. All submissions must be in English.

Format. Manuscripts should be prepared on a computer in MS Word, double-spaced, with ample margins, and submitted electronically via email directly to the Managing Editor (fnb@inffoundation.org).
Hard copy submissions are not accepted. Please review page 3 for formatting instructions of the cover page and text of your manuscript.

Abstract. An abstract of not more than 250 words should be included at the beginning of the manuscript, in the following format:

• Background: The context of the problem that was investigated, with relevant historical information.
• Objective: A one-or two-sentence description of the purpose of the study and what the authors expected to find.
• Methods. Outline of study design, subject selection, analytical methods, data analysis.
• Results. What was found, based on the data. Give specific data and their statistical significance here, if possible.
• Conclusions. Provide a one- or two-sentence description of the conclusions, based on the results.

Emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations. Do not include any information that is not given in the body of the article. Do not cite references or use abbreviations or acronyms in the abstract.

Key words. Authors should provide a minimum of four key words for the article.

Ethical approval of studies and informed consent. For investigations of human subjects, authors should state in the Methods section the manner in which informed consent was obtained from the study participants (i.e., oral or written), and describe how the study investigators protected the rights of participants as described in the Declaration of Helsinki.

Conflicts of interest and other disclosures. Authors must confirm upon submission that the manuscript is an original work, and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Additionally, authors must explicitly state any potential financial or other conflicts of interest in a cover letter accompanying submission of their manuscript. Finally, the corresponding author will need to verify that each author listed has seen and approved the form and content of the submitted article.

Tables and Figures. Tables and figures should be placed on separate pages at the end of the manuscript file. Footnotes should be keyed to the relevant data points by letters or symbols. The original data files for figures that use bar graphs, scatterplots, or other graphic representations of data must be included as part of the initial submission. Please double-check your data for accuracy and consistency with the text.

Photographs. Photographs should be submitted electronically in jpg., tiff. or bmp. format. If used, photographs will be published only in black and white.

Units of measure. All measurements should be expressed in metric units. If other units are used, their metric equivalent should be indicated.

Abbreviations. Please spell out all abbreviations used on the first reference.

Text of manuscript:

• Head 1 (eg., Abstract, Keywords, Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgment, References) should be in 14 point bold.
• Head 2 should be in 12 point bold.
• Head 3 should be in 12 point bold italic.
• Please do not use numbers to designate order in headers or titles.

Footnotes: If possible, please try to keep footnotes concise and to a minimum. Remember that FNB pages are slightly smaller, and long footnotes will extend to subsequent pages.

References in the text should be numbered in consecutive order, and should be enclosed in square brackets.  (eg, “…better than that of the population of Nepal [1].” )
Please do NOT use parentheses or superscript.

For more detailed information on references, please see References section below.

Cover page
Please format the cover page and text of your manuscript as follows:

Title in 14 point bold

Education and improved iron intakes for treatment of mild iron deficiency anemia in adolescent girls in southern Benin

First and last name of all authors – please do NOT use superscript
 
Halimatou Alaofè, John Zee, Romain Dossa, Huguette Turgeon O’Brien

Description of affiliations - please do NOT use superscript or titles (eg., Dr., Professor, job titles, etc.). Affiliations should include just the name of the organization, city and state and/or country. University departments, etc. should not be included.

Halimatou Alaofè , John Zee, and Huguette Turgeon O’Brien are affiliated with Université Laval, Québec, Canada. John Zee is also affiliated with Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Montréal, Canada. Romain Dossa is affiliated with Université d’Abomey Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin.

Corresponding author information – include name, mailing address, and email.

Please address all inquiries to the corresponding author, Huguette Turgeon O’Brien, at:
Département des sciences des aliments et de nutrition FSAA, 2425 rue de l’Agriculture
Quebec, Canada, G1V OA6. Email: Huguette.Turgeon-Obrien@fsaa.ulaval.ca.

Running head: Dietary intervention and iron status of adolescents

References

• *We prefer that authors use the software EndNote® or the Endnote feature in MS Word when compiling references. If further instruction is needed on how to use this MS Word tool, please contact the Managing Editor. If references are created manually, the author will be responsible for renumbering all references in the text and reference section if changes are required.
  
  
• References should be listed at the end of the article, and must be provided in the format listed below (see examples).

• Please number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in the text and tables and figure legends by arabic numerals enclosed in square brackets. (Please do NOT use parentheses.)  References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the first mention of the relevant table or figure in the text.

• *Be sure references are complete and current; the accuracy of references is the responsibility of the author. Please double-check that reference numbers correspond to the correct numbers in the text.

• Unpublished papers, and papers submitted for publication but not yet accepted, should not be listed as references.

•  If the material in the article has been previously presented or is planned to be published elsewhere in the future —in the same or modified form— a note should be included giving the details.

Please review these examples of reference formatting:

—Standard journal article (list all authors –  do not use “et al.”):

• Alvarez MI, Mikasic D, Ottenberger A, Salazar ME. Caracteristicas de familias urbanas con lactante desnutrido: un análisis critico. Arch Lationoam Nutr 1979;29:220-30.

—Corporate author:

• Committee on Enzymes of the Scandinavian Society for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Physiology. Recommended method for the determination of gammaglutamyltransferase in blood. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1976;36:119-25.

Book or other monograph reference

—personal author(s):

• Brozek J. Malnutrition and human behavior: experimental, clinical and community studies. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.

—corporate author:

• American Medical Association, Department of Drugs. AMA drug evaluations, 3rd ed. Littleton, Mass, USA: Publishing Sciences Group, 1977.
  

—editor, compiler, chairman as author:

• Medioni J, Boesinger E, eds. Mécanismes éthologiques de l’évolution. Paris: Masson, 1977.
  

—chapter in book:

• Barnett HG. Compatibility and compartmentalization in cultural change. In: Desai AR, ed.    Essays on modernization of underdeveloped societies. Bombay: Thacker, 1971:20-35.