Author Guidelines

Aims & scope

IJAN welcomes high quality submissions from the researchers, academicians, industries, and policy makers worldwide on the basic, applied and translational aspects of the animal nutrition. The scope of journal is quite diverse and majorly focuses on the

• Feed resources and evaluation
• Non-conventional feed resources
• Feed technology & safety
• Feed additives & functional feed
• Nutrient metabolism & requirements
• Microbiota and host-microbiome interaction
• Artificial intelligence in feeds and feeding
• Precision nutrition
• Nutrition for better production and reproduction
• Maternal and early life nutrition
• Enteric methane emissions and mitigation
• GHG emissions from livestock excreta
• Carbon footprint of livestock production
• Environmental pollutants affecting nutrient utilization and production

Author's guidelines for submission

The original research article should not exceed 6000 words and contain a maximum of six tables and four figures. The manuscript should be based on the original research not published anywhere or under consideration. The manuscript submission must be approved by all the authors. Corresponding author of the manuscript should ensure the ethical compliance. Authors are advised to strictly follow the journal formatting requirements including reference style. All the submissions will undergo the plagiarism checking and the similarity index exceeding the acceptable limits will lead to the rejection of manuscript.

Manuscripts must be written in clear scientific English. Authors can follow either British or American English consistently throughout the manuscript.

The manuscript should be prepared in Microsoft Word (.docx) format with Times New Roman font (size 12). The manuscript should contain continuous line and page numbers.

The Manuscript shall be prepared under following sections

Title Page: The title page should contain the Full title of the manuscript, running title (≤50 characters), Authors name including first, middle and family name, Affiliations, ORCID IDs (preferably for all the authors or at least for the first and corresponding author, Corresponding author details (Email and Phone number) and Number of tables and figures.

Materials and Methods: The section should be elaborated for replication of the methods and should contain ethical approval for the study in the beginning of the section followed by experimental design, replicates, animal management, feeding schedule, laboratory and analytical procedures, statistical methods and models used along with the software versions. If the manuscript has NGS, proteomics or Metabolomics data, then the raw data should be submitted to public repositories, and the accession or reference numbers shall be given in the end of this section. The formulas should be built using Microsoft Formula Editor only. Symbols should not be represented by alphabets or numbers, use insert symbol function in MS Word for °C (degree Celsius), ´ (multiplication) and µ (micro)

Results: Present the study findings clearly and concisely. Data given in the graphs should not be included in tabular format. However, if such data are unavoidable, may be submitted as supplementary files. Avoid repetition between text and tables. The significant results should be presented with valid statistical analyses and should accompany exact p values.

Discussion: The section should contain the Interpretation of the results in relation to previous studies. The section should also contain the limitation and implication of the study.

Conclusions: Provide concise conclusions and practical significance.

References: the references should be in Vancouver style. References should be consecutively in order of appearance. Include DOI whenever available. Authors are advised to use Mendeley Reference Manager for referencing 

Tables: The tables should be prepared in editable format only in MS Word. The tables should have numbers consecutively and referred into the text of the manuscript at appropriate places. The table titles should be descriptive. Abbreviations and symbols used in the tables should be explained in the footnotes.

Figures: The figures should be in TIFF, PNG, JPEG or EPS format. The figures resolutions should be at least 300 dpi photographs and 600 dpi line drawings. All figure legends should be provided separately. Abbreviations and symbols used should be explained in the figure captions. Sizes for the acceptable figures: single and double column to be decided

Scientific units and names: The manuscript should have SI units throughout. The Genus and species names should be italicized. The gene names are italicized and protein names in normal font face.

Ethical requirements and declaration: the studies involving use of animals in the experiment must include compliance to the ethical guidelines and institutional ethics committee approval should be explicitly mentioned in the materials and methods section as well as at the end of the manuscript. Example: “Experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (Approval No. XXX/XXXX).”

Data Availability: Authors must provide a Data Availability Statement at the end of the manuscript. Sanger sequencing data requires GenBank Submission and accession number to be mentioned in the manuscript. “NGS data should be available in NCBI SRA and the accession number in the format of SRAXXXXX should be provided in the manuscript as well as in the data availability statement”

Omics and microbiome studies: For genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microbiome studies, the authors must provide: Raw data repository, Accession numbers, Bioinformatics workflow, Software versions and Database versions. Submission of metadata is strongly encouraged.

AI policy: AI tools may be used for Language editing, Grammar correction and Formatting assistance. AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for all content. A disclosure statement must be included when AI tools substantially contribute to manuscript preparation.

Authorship: Authors must satisfy all four ICMJE criteria for author contributions. Guest, honorary and ghost authorship are strictly prohibited. The author contributions should be included at the end of the manuscript by using the CRediT taxonomy. Examples include Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Data curation, Formal analysis, Manuscript Writing, Supervision and Funding acquisition.

Funding Statement:  All sources of financial support must be disclosed. If the study is supported by external grant, the funding agency with the grant number should be stated.

Conflict of Interest: Authors must disclose all financial and non-financial conflicts. If none exist: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.” Should be stated.

Research Integrity:  The journal follows COPE Guidelines, FAIR Data Principles. Misconduct includes Plagiarism, Fabrication, Falsification, Duplicate publication and Image manipulation.

Supplementary Materials: the supplementary files may include Extended datasets, Additional figures, Additional tables, Protocols, Statistical scripts, Bioinformatics workflows etc.

Cover letter: The cover letter should include Importance of the work, Confirmation of originality, Confirmation of author approval, Ethical compliance statement

Revision of the manuscript: The revised submissions must include clean manuscript, marked manuscript and point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments.

Proofs: Proofs are sent to the corresponding author before publication. Only minor corrections are permitted at proof stage.