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withdrawn, neither it nor the author’s response will be published. If not withdrawn, both the Letter to the Editor and the author’s response will be published in their entirety. Please send all Letters to the Editor as an E-mail attachment to the Production Editor (dbahun@foodprotection.org). PREPARATION OF ARTICLES The Scientific Editor assumes that the senior author has received proper clearance from his/her organization and from coauthors for publication of the manuscript. All parts of manuscripts, including references, tables, table captions, footnotes, and figure legends, must be typed, double-spaced, in at least 10-pt. type Manuscripts must be in MS Word, WordPerfect or text formats. Page margins on all sides must be at least 1 in. (2.5 cm) wide. Lines throughout the manuscript must be numbered sequentially (i.e., not restarted on each page) to facilitate review of papers; however, final revised manuscripts must NOT have line numbers. Number all pages, including tables and figures. FPT uses English conventions of spelling and punctuation. Manuscripts are divided into sections, which must be arranged in the following order: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Figure legends, Tables, and Figures. Except for the Introduction, all of these sections should have separate headings, which should appear in the manuscript worded exactly as stated above. Subheadings take the form of paragraph lead-ins. Paragraph lead-ins should be boldface and indented, and should run in with the text, separated by a period. Third-order subheadings will not be accepted. FPT follows many of the recommendations for manuscript preparation in the ASM Style Manual, 2nd ed., 1991, published by the American Society for Microbiology. Authors will find useful guidance concerning scientific nomenclature, abbreviations, numbers and measurements, English, references, tables, and figures, as well as a helpful bibliography. For further reference, see Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual, 6th ed., Cambridge University Press, 1994, as well as The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003, and the bibliographies in these guides. ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH ARTICLES Title Page The title of the manuscript should appear at the top of the first page. It should be as brief as possible, contain no abbreviations, and be indicative of the subject of the manuscript. Avoid expressions such as “Effects of,” “Influence of,” “Studies on,” etc. Full names and, for each author, addresses of the institution(s) or organization(s) where the work was done should appear on the title page. When authors are affiliated with more than one department or unit within an institution or with more than one institution, superscript numbers are used to indicate each author’s address. Footnotes can be used to give the present addresses of authors who are no longer at the institution(s) where the work was done. A footnote asterisk(*) should be placed after the name of the author to whom correspondence about the paper and proofs should be sent. The E-mail address and telephone and facsimile numbers of this author should be given at the bottom of the page. No text of the manuscript should appear on the title page. Abstract The Abstract should appear on a separate page directly following the title page and should not exceed 200 words. It should summarize the contents of the manuscript and be meaningful without the reader having to read the remaining pages. The Abstract should not contain references, diagrams, tables or unusual abbreviations. Introduction The Introduction should provide the reader with sufficient background information to evaluate the results of the research without an extensive review of literature. The rationale and objectives of the study should also be included. Materials and Methods Sufficient information should be provided to allow other researchers to repeat the experiments described in the paper. If reference is made to a method published elsewhere that is not readily available to most readers, details should be included. Sources (company, city, state or country) of chemicals, bacterial strains, reagents and equipment must be identified. Results and Discussion The Results section provides a synopsis of the data in text format, supported by tables and figures. Tables and figures must be numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. All tables and figures must be cited in the text, but tables and figures reporting results should not be cited in the Materials and Methods section. Extensive interpretation of the results as they relate to the literature should be included. 32 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS | JANUARY 2009

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