Brazilian Journal of Food Technology

The BJFT expects that articles report the original work and ideas of the listed authors. Any contribution from other sources must be clearly and accurately attributed.In this regard, any contributions from artificial intelligence (AI) tools and technologies to a study or to the content of an article must be reported in a dedicated section of the Methods or the Acknowledgments. Omission of such inf…

Authors are considered those with effective intellectual and scientific contributions to the work, participating in its conception, execution, analysis, interpretation, or writing of the results, and approving its final content. Authorship also implies responsibility for all aspects of the work and a commitment to collaborate in the investigation and resolution of issues related to the accuracy or…

Preventing conflicts of interest is crucial to ensuring the integrity and credibility of scientific output. Therefore, authors are required to declare any relevant conflicts of interest when submitting a manuscript. This includes financial ties, institutional relationships, or personal interests that may have influenced the research outcomes. Reviewers, chosen based on their expertise, should also…

The process of submitting a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published previously, except in the form of an abstract, published lecture, or academic thesis.The editors of BJFT declare that articles published in this journal may be subject to retraction under the following circumstances: There is clear evidence that the published results are not reliable, whether this is a re…

The Brazilian Journal of Food Technology adopts a copyright policy that complies with the recommendations of the SciELO Criteria. In all articles, the respective authors retain the ownership of the copyrights, and the journal holds the right of first publication, including photographs that may be used to promote the article via social media. The articles are published as open access under the Crea…

Brazilian Journal of Food Technology follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including no financial barriers) to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open Access is a condition whereby the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties through an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), permitting immediate free access to…

Upon submission to BJFT, manuscripts undergo a desk review, which includes similarity checks. Subsequently, they are assigned to an Area Editor. Depending on the manuscript’s scope and overall quality, it is either sent to two reviewers or returned to the authors for revisions. In some cases, manuscripts may be rejected.The entire process follows a double-blind review model, except for manuscripts…

The BJFT encourages authors to deposit their manuscript in a Preprint repository at the time of publication, or before it. The objective is to facilitate the evaluation of the manuscript, contributing to the preservation and reuse of contents and research, in case of approval for publication.In the context of scientific journals, a preprint is a version of an article that exists before peer review…