Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research (IJAFR) requires all research articles to have a funding acknowledgement statement included in the manuscript. The statement should be placed under a heading entitled ‘Funding’ directly after your Acknowledgements and Declaration of Conflicting Interests, if applicable.
We require details of the funding agency to be supplied in full, followed by the grant number in square brackets. Multiple grant numbers should be separated by comma and space, see following example:
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxx, yyy, zzz].
Where the research was supported by multiple sources, the different agencies should be separated by semi-colon, with “and” before the final funder. Such as:
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the National Science Fund [grant number zzzz]; and the International Research Body [grant number xxxx].
Where the research is not funded by a specific project grant, but from other resources available to a university, college or other research institution, such as the block grant, the following statement should be used:
This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Text Recycling
“Text Recycling” or “self-plagiarism” as it is sometimes called occurs when an author reuses passages of text from his/her own previously published work in a new submission. As Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research (IJAFR) requiresis a member of CrossCheck’s plagiarism detection initiative, all instances of text recycling will be detected. When such instances are detected the COPE Guidelines on text recycling will be followed.
Duplication
All manuscripts submitted to Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research (IJAFR) should be original and not under consideration by another publication. In instances where substantial parts of the text in the submission may overlap, we ask our authors to be open and let us know of any concerns when they submit their manuscripts. Each issue will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis in accordance with ICMJE recommendations on overlapping publications.
In the event that Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research (IJAFR) becomes aware of violations of publication ethics after the article has already been published, then the article may warrant retraction with or without the author’s explanation or approval. In any such event Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research (IJAFR) will adhere to the COPE flowcharts when dealing with the suspected violations.