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name: frontiers-nutrition description: "Shared author-guideline skill for Frontiers Media food & nutrition journals: Frontiers in Nutrition and Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Use to format or check a manuscript for a Frontiers journal — article types, structure, Frontiers reference style, and figure specs. Triggers: submit to Frontiers in Nutrition, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems guidelines, Frontiers 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: "Frontiers Media SA" verified: "2026-07" source: "https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/author-guidelines"

Frontiers Food & Nutrition Journals — Shared Author Guideline Skill

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA · Verified: 2026-07 · Gold open access; use the Frontiers article template. Confirm at the Frontiers author guidelines.

Applies to

Journal	Abbrev	Scope
Frontiers in Nutrition	FRONT NUTR	Nutrition, diet, health
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems	FRONT SUSTAIN FOOD S	Sustainable food systems

Article types

Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Systematic Review, Perspective, Brief Research Report, Methods, and others per the Frontiers type list — each with its own length/structure spec on the journal site.

Manuscript structure

Title → Authors & affiliations → Abstract → Keywords → Introduction → Materials and Methods → Results → Discussion → Conclusion → Conflict of Interest statement → Author Contributions → Funding → Data Availability → References.

• Abstract: unstructured, ≤~350 words (type-dependent; confirm).
• Keywords: 5–8.
• Mandatory Frontiers statements: Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Funding, Data Availability, and Ethics (for human/animal studies).

Reference style

Frontiers reference style (author–date). In-text (Author et al., 2023); alphabetical reference list with full author lists and DOIs.

Example:

Author, A. B., and Author, C. D. (2023). Title of the article. Front. Nutr. 10:123456. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.123456

Figures & tables

Figures ≥300 dpi (line art ≥600); TIFF/EPS/JPEG; RGB; editable tables; cite in order. Frontiers checks image integrity at submission.

Submission checklist

• Correct Frontiers article type + within its spec · [ ] Abstract within limit · [ ] 5–8 keywords
• All mandatory Frontiers statements (COI, contributions, funding, data availability, ethics)
• Frontiers author–date references with DOIs · [ ] Figures ≥300 dpi

Formatting constraints

publisher: Frontiers Media
reference_style: author-date-frontiers
abstract_words: 350
keywords_max: 8
mandatory_statements: [conflict_of_interest, author_contributions, funding, data_availability, ethics]
open_access: gold
figure_dpi: {halftone: 300, line_art: 600}