Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition is an open access journal, all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
Peer Review
Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition operates a single anonymized review process under responsibility of Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles.
User Rights
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and further does not permit distribution of the article if it is changed or edited in any way. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a Copyright Transfer Agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, but will have the right to share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license (e.g. stored in institutional repository), as well as certain scholarly usage rights.
Article Processing Charge
To provide open access, Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition has an open access fee (also known as an article publishing charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or by their research funder or institution. For accepted manuscripts should pay RMB 320 yuan for each printed page (apply to the first six pages) and 700 yuan for each printed page (apply to the pages from the 7th one), additional 760 yuan for each color page, and 250 yuan as the reviewing fee for each paper. Authors who require more information (e.g., about waivers or discounts as provided by the journal), please contact the editorial office (E-mail: yyxb@cau.edu.cn).
