Qas Crops Foods

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name: qas-crops-foods
description: "Author-guideline skill for Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods (Codon Publications, ISSN 1757-8361). Use to format or check a manuscript for this open-access journal — structure, numbered references, and figure specs. Triggers: submit to Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods, Codon Publications food guidelines, QAS Crops Foods formatting. Also fires when the user wants to publish on/in this journal, format a manuscript for it, or match its reference/citation style."
metadata:
  publisher: "Codon Publications"
  issn: "1757-8361"
  verified: "2026-07"
  source: "https://www.qascf.com/index.php/qas/about/submissions"
---

# Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods (Codon) — Author Guideline Skill

**Publisher:** Codon Publications · **ISSN:** 1757-8361 · **Source:** [Submissions](https://www.qascf.com/index.php/qas/about/submissions) · **Verified:** 2026-07 (confirm at source). Gold open access.

## Aims & scope
Research on quality assurance and safety across the crop-to-food chain: crop quality, food safety, contaminants and residues, detection methods, processing and storage effects, authenticity, and risk. Applied and analytical work welcome.

## Article types
Original Research Articles; Reviews; Short Communications.

## Manuscript structure
Title page → Abstract → Keywords → Introduction → Materials and Methods → Results → Discussion (or combined Results and Discussion) → Conclusion → Acknowledgements → Conflict of Interest → References → Tables → Figure legends → Figures.

- **Abstract:** unstructured, ≤250 words.
- **Keywords:** 4–6.

## Reference style
**Numbered (Vancouver-style)** citation-sequence (confirm current Codon/journal style). In-text bracketed numbers `[1]`; numbered list with DOIs.

Example:
> 1. Author AB, Author CD. Title of the article. Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods. 2023;15(2):123-134. https://doi.org/10.15586/qas.vxxix.xxxx

## Figures & tables
Figures ≥300 dpi; TIFF/JPEG/PNG/EPS; RGB online; editable tables; cite in order.

## Submission checklist
- [ ] Abstract ≤250 words · [ ] 4–6 keywords · [ ] Numbered references with DOIs
- [ ] Conflict of Interest statement · [ ] Ethics/consent where applicable
- [ ] Figures ≥300 dpi · [ ] Cover letter

## Formatting constraints
```yaml
journal: Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods
publisher: Codon Publications
reference_style: numbered-vancouver
abstract_words: 250
keywords_max: 6
open_access: gold
figure_dpi: {halftone: 300, line_art: 1000}
```