About the Journal

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Bulletin of SouthUralStateUniversity, Series “Food and Biotechnology” is established in 2013. The magazine is published once a quarter.

The main objective of the "Bulletin of SUSU". A series of " Food and Biotechnology " is to exercise contribute to the development of modern science in the field of biotechnology and technology of food production by providing the results of fundamental and applied research , to broaden and deepen understanding of critical issues technologies of processes , environmental safety, quality optimization, food engineering , physiology, nutrition and ways to solve them . The mission of the series is to develop human resource capacity of Russian science, the widespread dissemination and promotion in the circles of professional audience research results of high quality and their use in practice, and food processing plants.

A series of "Food and Biotechnology" provides an opportunity for researchers to publish the results of own research activities and see the articles of colleagues from Russia and other countries.

Materials published in the journal are interesting and useful for scientific research, for Master's and PhD’s students. The results can be presented in the form of review, original articles, or short messages (for young scientists and graduate students).

We invite you to accept to publish results of the researches in scientific journal «Bulletin of SUSU», series «Food and Biotechnology».

Chief editor

Peer Review Process

Review of the articles sent by the authors for publication in Bulletin of South Ural State University, Series “Food and Biotechnology” is performed in accordance with the following rules.

Document management within reviewing.

The articles submitted according to the requirements for publication in “Bulletin of SUSU, series “Food and Biotechnology” are to be reviewed.
The article is directed to an expert of the corresponding field for reviewing (herein after referred to as Reviewer) with a Degree of Doctor of Science. A member of Editorial Board can’t be a Reviewer.
Reviewing period doesn’t exceed 1 month from the date of submission of the article to a Reviewer.
Within 2 weeks from accepting the review the Editorial Board considers comments and makes reasonable decision of the necessity to modify (rewrite) the article and/or the possibility (impossibility) to publish the article.
Within a week after acceptance the author is informed about reasonable decision made by the Editorial Board.

Format and content of the review.

The review should be of A4 document format, font and line interval are determined by the Reviewer independently, page margins are 2 cm.
The review should have a Title: «Article Review <Author> <Title>».
In the review the Reviewer should briefly mark:
— topicality of the problems;
— originality and sufficiency of solution methods given;
— academic novelty of the results;
— practical importance of the results;
— style and literacy of the content;
— structure of the article.
The review is followed by the final list of basic advantages and disadvantages of the article.
Reviewer makes the conclusion of:
— possibility (necessity) to publish the article in the journal;
— possibility to publish the article after modification and correction;
— impossibility (unviability) to publish the article.
In the end of the text of review there is a signature and print full name of the Reviewer, degree and title.

Information about the Publication

Establisher — FSSFEI HPE «South UralStateUniversity».

Series is established in 2013.

Periodicity — once a quarter.

Bulletin is registered in International center ISSN, ISSN number 2310-2748.

Bulletin is included into Abstract Journal and Data Bases of All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information.

Information about the articles published is provided to the Russian Science Citation Index in the prescribed form.

Complete version of the journal is provided into official web-site of Scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU in the Internet, as well as “Bulletin of SUSU” section onSouthUralStateUniversity web-site which is available free.

Editorial Board

Potoroko I. Yu., doctor of technical Sciences, associate Professor, South Ural state University (Chelyabinsk, Russia) (Chief editor);

Kalinina I. V., candidate of technical Sciences, associate Professor, South Ural state University (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation) (Deputy editor);

Popova N. V. candidate of technical Sciences, South Ural state University (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation) (Executive Secretary).

Publication ethics of a journal

Publication policy of the journal is based on traditional ethical principles of the Russian scientific periodicals and is built in terms of ethical norms of editors and publishers work stated in Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In the course of publishing editorial board of the journal is led by international rules for copyright protection, statutory regulations of the Russian Federation as well as international standards of publishing. The editorial board recommends the authors to follow the rules and examples of the documents when submitting articles.

The article should be in printed or electronic version in Russian or English languages. The electronic version should be identical to the printed one. The printed version should have the signatures of all the authors.
The article submitted to the periodical should present a complete scientific research and include new scientific results.
It is forbidden to publish the articles previously published or sent for publication to other periodicals. The author is responsible for the content of the article. The editorial board is entitled to withdraw a published article if there is an evidence of the fact that within publication the rights and general accepted rules of scientific ethics are infringed. The editorial board must inform the author of withdrawal.
Printed version is followed by:
— the act of expert examination about the possibility of publication in public media;
— non-exclusive license agreement of granting the right to use the article;
— agreement for processing of personal data.
The license agreement is to be compiled in 2 copies for the co-authors. The agreement for processing of personal data is to be in one copy. Signing the license agreement the author guarantees the fact that the article is the original version written by the author. He also ensures the granted rights do not infringe the rights of other people or companies.
Chief Editor conducts the policy of prevention and control of publishing conflicts.
The printed version is to be followed by the information about the author who wrote the article and cooperates with the editorial board in the process of submission the article for publishing, contact telephone and e-mail for feedback.
The editorial board is not responsible for artistic, literary or any other types of correction of the articles.
The decision on acceptance of the article for publication is made by the editorial board on the basis of the expert review of the same or related field of study. Final date of acceptance of the article for publication is the date of acceptance of the article with necessary corrections in accordance with the comments of a reviewer. If the authors ignore the comments of the reviewer to make necessary error corrections of the article, the article will not be published. The authors can give reasons for refusal to follow recommendations of the reviewer in the written form. In case of disagreement of the reviewer with the authors the article is not published, the authors are notified about it by the official letter with grounds for refusal to publish the article in the present form. Publication ethics provides fair and objective reviewing process free of business interest and market needs.
The editorial board has the right not to accept articles that are submitted with deviations from the rules.
Articles which are not accepted for publication as well as accompanying documents are returned.
Submission of an article to the editor of the periodical "Bulletin of the SUSU" signifies the agreement of the authors to accept the rules and place full a version of the article to the Internet on the Internet on the official web-site of Scientific on-line library eLIBRARY.RU, and in the section of South Ural State University «Bulletin of the SUSU» for free access as well as to use personal data in public media.

Fee for publication

The cost of 1 page of text formatted according to the requirements – 500 RUB. (without VAT). Funds paid by the authors of the articles are directed solely to the compensation the drafting, correctora, publishing costs.

The article can be published only if one hundred percent payment, which is carried out after receiving from the editor a positive review of the independent expert and in accordance with the article all the requirements to registration of manuscripts.

Publication of articles of graduate students are free of charge.