Copyright Policy

If a manuscript includes material that is not under the authors’own copyright, the authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder(s)to reproduce it. If a manuscript includes previously published material, the authors must obtain permission from the copyright owners and the publisher of the original work to reproduce it. The authors must cite the original work in their manuscript.

Copies of all reproduction permissions must be included with the manuscript when it is first submitted.All articles in the journal are Open Access. Authors are required to assign all copyrights in the work to the Society, who then publish the work under the Creative Commons 4.0 Inter- national license. Authors can choose the following Creative Commons license, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0.

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Oleo Science publishes peer reviewed, Open Access articles on basic and applied research into fats and oils. Basic research topics include the chemistry, biochemistry and science of fats and oils, such as related food products, cosmetics, detergents, natural products, petroleum products, lipids and related proteins and sugars. The journal encourages the submission of manuscripts that combine chemistry and/or biochemistry with biological/sensory/nutritional/toxicological evaluation related to agriculture and/or food.

Published by the Japan Oil Chemists’ Society, the Journal of Oleo Science publishes high-quality articles twelve times a year and continuously online. The journal consists of the following sections:
a)Oils & Fats
b)Detergents, Surfactants, Interface & Colloid
c)Biochemistry & Biotechnology
d)Medical Chemistry
e)Nutrition, Health Function & Food Science,
f)Chemistry & Organic Synthesis
g)Essential Oils & Natural Products
h)Cosmetic Science
i)General Subjects