Appetite

Appetite publishes the entire range of research relating to eating and drinking.

Submissions for publication should be relevant to the consumption of or attitudes to ingestible substances, or to the influences on or the consequences of such choices and appetites. Nevertheless, other matters are not excluded if they are important in a particular study.

This journal specializes in cross-disciplinary communication. Therefore, papers originating in any scholarly discipline or combination of disciplines are considered for publication, following review by peers with research expertise in the main discipline(s) involved in the submission.

•Full papers, including empirical reports and theoretical reviews;
•Themed collections of peer-reviewed papers in Special Sections or Issues;
•Commentary sections with keynote paper, brief comments and reply;
•Book reviews and evaluative notices of single or multiple volumes;
•Abstracts in guest-edited sets from international multidisciplinary conferences;
•Reports and announcements of conferences and symposium sessions primarily concerned with topics in the range of the journal.

Accepted papers are published in electronic form immediately on receipt of corrected proofs. Printed issues of the journal are distributed bimonthly.

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.

SUBMISSION



Authors should submit their articles electronically via the homepage of this journal ( http://ees.elsevier.com/appetite/). The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance.

All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Author's homepage on the system, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.

As a rule, papers are referred on receipt to at least two research workers in the area(s) covered and the Editor's decision is made in light of their comments, normally within 6-8 weeks of receipt.

Sets of abstracts from meetings should be pre-arranged as early in advance as possible with the Contact Editor, who will agree Guest Editors responsible for the length and professional quality of each abstract.

FORMAT AND LENGTH

Full papers
Reports of new empirical findings should present the investigation as succinctly as feasible with clarity with the main text divided into Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.

Reviews may be of any length consistent with succinct presentation, subdivided as appropriate to the subject matter.

Special Sections and Special issues
Proposals for a themed collection, symposium or commentary should be sent to the Contact Editor and appetite@elsevier.com, listing provisional authors, titles and lengths of papers and suggesting Executive, Advisory or Guest Editors with a timetable for recorded peer-reviewing, revision and transmittal in the format required for publication. The reviews or reports in a special section or issue will be subject to the normal process of peer-review.

Book Reviews
The review of a single book should not exceed two printed pages (up to 1500 words including topical headings and any references cited). The full bibliographic details of the book(s) must be included in the heading, including ISBN(s) and price(s) preferably in US dollars and euro or sterling.

Conference Abstracts
All the abstracts in a set must be limited to a total word count of no more than 300 (4 per page), including the title, author name(s), one complete postal address and one e-mail address – and a single paragraph of text . Tables, Figures and footnotes are not allowed. Any acknowledgements must be given within the paragraph. The title of the meeting as the main title, the location and dates as a sub-title must be provided to form the heading of the set of abstracts. Any session titles, special lectures or other material must fit into the format and word count for the abstracts in that set.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

General layout
Manuscripts should be typewritten in double-spacing throughout (including abstract, keywords, headings, footnotes, references, tables and legends) with wide (3-cm) margins. Number all the pages of the manuscript consecutively. Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated either by an indented first line or a preceding blank line (not both). Present each Table and the set of legends for Figures on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. If possible, consult a recent issue of the journal to become familiar with layout and conventions.

Typography. Text should be justified to the left without hyphenated line breaks, except for compound words. Punctuation should be consistent. One space only should be inserted between words and between numerical values and units, and after punctuation except a full stop (point) where there should be two spaces. The initial letter is put in upper case only after a stop, question mark or paragraph break, not after a colon or semi-colon. Do not use the lower-case letter "l" (el) for "1" (one) or the capital letter "O" for "0" (zero). (They have different typesetting values.)

Title page
Title. Concise and informative, starting with a substantive term (not "the", "effect" etc.). Titles are often used in information retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

Authors' names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' full postal addresses (where the work was done) below the names, including the post code and country's name. Indicate each author's affiliation with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the family name and in front of the appropriate address. Corresponding author. The email address of the corresponding author, with preferred full name in brackets, will be published at the foot of the paper. Below that footnote, in single spacing and marked "not for publication", the telephone and fax numbers (with country and area codes) of the corresponding author must be provided for use if needed during production, in addition the complete postal address if different from the affiliation as an author.

Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the paper was done (or was visiting at the time), a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the address of affiliation in the main heading. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes (but not for the corresponding author's email contact).

Graphical Abstracts
A Graphical abstract is optional and should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. See PDFversion for examples.

Highlights
Highlights are mandatory for this journal. They consist of a short collection of bullet points that convey the core findings of the article and should be submitted in a separate file in the online submission system. Please include 3 to 5 bullet points (max. 85 characters per bullet point including spaces). See www.elsevier.com/researchhighlights for examples.

Abstract and keywords
The key features of the work should be stated on the second page of the manuscript in a summary of no more than 200 words. The abstract of an empirical report normally gives the study's main aim, the primary method(s), the most important findings and conclusions from the investigation, but not with subheadings. References, abbreviations or P values should not be used.

This abstract must be followed by a maximum of 10 keywords, which reflect the entries the author(s) would like to see in an index.

Main text
The main text of a full paper should begin with a brief statement of the point of the paper for those interested in the general area of the journal. The remainder of the paper should be for readers professionally familiar with the topic. This means that an empirical report should introduce and discuss only those publications directly relevant to what the investigation discovered. (A short evaluative review of the broader research literature would be welcome as a separate submission.)

The main Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections of an empirical report should have appropriate subsections using just one level of subheading; any second level of subheading must be within a paragraph. Footnotes should be minimised; all essential details should be included in the appropriate place in the main text of Methods. The content and layout of questions and answers should be described without redundancy in the text of Method, with more detail essential to the findings being given in Tables in the Results section; questionnaires and interview protocols (in Figure form) are not published. Reference to a publication should be made by the name of its author, followed by the year of its publication between parentheses, thus: Miller (1990) found that ..., or ... as studied previously (Miller, 1990). Unpublished but extant manuscripts should be cited in the form (D.J. Jones Locker University.2008).

When a Table or a Figure is cited, normally it should be in brackets at the end of the description of a finding; the Table or Figure itself is described in its heading or caption. The number of each Table or Figure should be indicated in the main text at the end of the paragraph where it is first cited in support of a specific statement of the observation or other content.

Descriptive and inferential statistics should only be cited in support of verbal statements in the Results section of what was reliably observed; description of data-analytical procedures should be confined to the Methods section. Probability values and power statistics should be given with statistic values and round-bracketed degrees of freedom, e.g. F(1, 34) ≡ 123,p⟨0.001 (preferably between commas or a stop, rather than square brackets), but where feasible such information should be included in Tables rather than in the main text.

Spelling must be consistent with either British usage (The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) or American usage (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary). However, spelling in the list of references must be literal to each original publication. Details of style not specified here may be determined by reference to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or the Style Manual for Biological Journals. To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spellchecker' function of your wordprocessor; however, its effects must be checked for changes to the intended wording.

Abbreviations must be standard, where used. The Systeme Internationale (SI) should be used for all units; where metric units are used (e.g. kcal), the SI equivalent (e.g. MJ) must also be given.

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References

Text: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. You are referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, ISBN 1-55798-790-4, copies of which may be ordered from http://www.apa.org/books/4200061.html or APA Order Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA. Or APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK. Details concerning this referencing style can also be found at http://humanities.byu.edu/linguistics/Henrichsen/APA/APA01.html

List: References should be arranged first alphabetically according to surnames and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication in the list and in the main text.

References should be given in the following form (with issue number in parentheses after volume number only when pagination is not across issues throughout the volume:

Barlow, D.H., Nock, M.K., & Hersen, M. (2008). Single case experimental designs: strategies for studying behavior for change. New York: Pearson Education.

Driver, J., & Bayliss, G. C. (1998). Attention and visual object segmentation. In R. Parasuraman (Ed.), The attentive brain (pp. 299-325). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hedderley, D. I., & Meiselman, H. L. (1995). Modelling meal acceptability in a free choice environment. Food Quality and Preference, 6, 15-26.

NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (2009). Transformative R01 Program. Understanding human behavior change. http://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/health_behaviour/behaviour_changes/index.aspx - downloaded 14 October 2010

Footnotes
Any essential footnotes to the main text should be numbered and typed on a separate page after the References and any Reference Note(s). A footnote should be cited in the text using a superscript number. Word processor facilities for printing a footnote on the manuscript page where it is cited should not be used.

Appendices and Supplementary Materials
Appendices are not encouraged. Critical details of Method should be described in that section of the manuscript. If the authors wish to make further details available that have not been peer-reviewed, they may be mounted online within the author’ s research institution’s web pages and that URL given if necessary in the acknowledgement footnote of the paper.

Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively at the start of a heading that states the main variables presented in terminology used in the text of Results and each Table typed double (or 1.5) spaced on a separate sheet following the References and Notes sections. No vertical rules should be used. Footnotes to cells should be double-spaced below the table, keyed by superscript lowercase letters.

Tables should not duplicate data presented elsewhere in the manuscript (e.g. in graphs or text). Each column and row of a Table should be distinctively labelled, including units for quantities. Each set of data should be placed in its own labelled column or row (not in brackets with another datum), e.g. N (where Ns vary among cells), Mean, SD, F, P, kcal, MJ. No character (except zero before a decimal point) should be repeated in every cell of a column or row of a Table. Numerical values should normally be rounded to no more than two digits before or after the decimal point or three digits around it. Information about particular cells that cannot be included in the Table heading or column and row labels may be given in a footnote using a superscript letter, or asterisk(s) in the case of P-values only.

Tables must be placed within the manuscript at the end, and not uploaded separately.

Figure legends
Numbered legends should be typed together on a separate page, collated into the manuscript in front of the Figures . The contents of the Figure should be described in that caption in terminology used in the citing section of the paper. The key to any symbol, line or box should be included in the legend, unless given within the body of the Figure.

Figures
Each Figure should be placed on its own page at the end of the manuscript. As well as a copy at the end of the main manuscript, original drawings, photographic prints or laser-printed copy must be submitted for each line or half-tone illustration. Each Figure should also be uploaded to EES as a separate.tif or .eps file. Each Figure should be clearly numbered (not captioned), away from the body of the graphics. Each box, axis, line or column in a Figure should be distinctively labelled, including units for quantities. Any label or key not in the Figure legend should be placed within the body of the Figure, not adding to the area of the graphics. White space within the width of the Figure and at the top and bottom should be at the minimum consistent with clarity. Data points should be as large as feasible. Columns should be no wider than necessary and stippled or grey filling should be avoided.

Preparation of electronic illustrations
Submitting your artwork in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail. A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions

General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according its place in the sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files, and supply a separate listing of the files and the software used.
• Provide all illustrations as separate files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.


Copyright

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Digital Object Identifier
Elsevier assigns a unique digital object identifier (DOI) to every article it publishes. The DOI appears on the title page of the article. It is assigned after the article has been accepted for publication and persists throughout the lifetime of the article. The DOI can be used to cite papers prior to publication.

Ethics
Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement to the effect that all human studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. It should also be stated clearly in the text that all persons gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. Details that might disclose the identity of the subjects under study should be omitted. Reports of animal experiments must state that the "Principles of laboratory animal care" (NIH publication No. 86-23, revised 1985) were followed, as well as specific national laws (e.g. the current version of the German Law on the Protection of Animals) where applicable. The Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or for failure to fulfill the above-mentioned requirements.

Proofs
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Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if a response is not received promptly.

Author enquiries
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Offprints
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Disclaimer
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