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Editorial Statement

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

When a manuscript is submitted to a journal, it is assessed to see if it meets the criteria for submission. If it does, the editorial team will select potential peer reviewers within the field of research to peer-review the manuscript and make recommendations.

There are three main types of peer review used by APFMJ:

Single-blind: the reviewers know the names of the authors, but the authors do not know who reviewed their manuscript unless the reviewer chooses to sign their report.

Double-blind: the reviewers do not know the names of the authors, and the authors do not know who reviewed their manuscript.

Open peer: authors know who the reviewers are, and the reviewers know who the authors are. If the manuscript is accepted, the named reviewer reports are published alongside the article.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics

A. Scientific Journal Manager

Duties and responsibilities:

1. Determine the names of journals, members of the editorial board, the field of knowledge, and the accreditation process.
2. Establish contracts in managing relationships between writers, editors, partners, and others.
3. Maintain confidentiality of matters relating to authors, contributing researchers, editors, and reviewers.
4. Comply with rules relating to intellectual property rights such as a copyright.
5. Review the journal policy and relay it to authors, editorial boards, reviewers, and readers.
6. Create a Code of Conduct for editors and reviewers.
7. Publish the journal in a timely manner.
8. Manage and seek funding sources to maintain the continuity of journal publication.
9. Develop a network of cooperation and marketing journals.
10. Provide aspects of legality and the process of licensing journal.

B. Editors

1. Adjust the needs of the authors and readers of the journal.
2. Enhance and guarantee the quality of journal publications through standardized processes.
3. Prioritize freedom of opinion openly and objectively for authors, reviewers, and editorial board members and related parties to improve the quality of publications.
4. Ensure the authors’ complete and appropriate academic track records
5. Provide information to the audience if there is a correction, clarification, retraction, and apology.
6. Determine and be liable for the style guide and the format of the articles.
7. Evaluate the journal if there are findings such as double publication, plagiarism, fabrication of data, author member changes, stealth authors (as well as guest writers or presentations), conflicts of interest, ethical issues, alleged mistakes of reviewers, and/or complaints against editors.
8. Review the effectiveness of publishing policies that affect the attitudes of authors and reviewers, as well as making improvements.
9. Encourage a business that can reduce research and publication errors by informing researchers about the ethics of publications and requesting that the authors include an ethical clearance form approved by an appropriate Research Ethical Committee.
10. Support the author to improve his/her paper until it is eligible to be published.

C. Reviewers

Reviewers play a very important role in the process of scientific publication and are required to have an honest, objective, unbiased, independent, critical nature in assessing papers, and upholding scientific truth. Criticism here intended in the grading of a written work must be in accordance with the field of expertise, other than being open to new things, respecting the confidentiality of the papers being assessed and not taking personal advantage in any form, also reviewers are expected to do the following:

1. Conduct a timely review of the paper and relay the results for consideration of the feasibility of publishing the paper to the editors.
2. Adapt the process of review to the style guide based on scientific principles such as method of data collection, legality of the author, conclusions, and related aspects.
3. Reviewing the written works that have been improved in accordance with the standards specified previously.

D. Authors

1. Be responsible for the content of a paper including methods, analysis, discussion, conclusions and recommendations as well as citations and References.
2. Explain the sources of research funding and those who assist in the research either directly or indirectly.
3. Explain the limitations of the research that has been conducted.
4. Respond to feedback from the reviewers in a professional and timely manner.
5. Provide information to the editor if the recommendation is to revoke the paper.
6. Maintain information about the results of the invention in the form of interviews or other media before obtaining clarity of publishing approval by the publisher.
7. Provide information to editors on papers that are part of a gradual research, multi-disciplinary research, and contain different perspectives.
8. Submit a declaration that the submitted papers are original and have not been published or submitted to other publishers in any media or language.
9. If there is an error in the paper, then the author is obliged to notify the publisher or editor.
10. The inclusion of the author's name in the paper is sorted according to the contribution and approved by all members, and if there is a change then the author must seek approval from the other authors involved in the paper.
11. Awarding acknowledgment in the paper is given to all parties who contribute non-substantively and who qualify on the basis of the authors’ discretion.
12. Authors are required to obtain permission from special parties (possessing patents) for both materials and publications that are used in papers and give proper acknowledgment when and where appropriate.
13. Referring to the work of others in the paper shall be properly cited.
14. The author is not allowed to copy the bibliography if the author does not read the papers themselves.
15. Authors are required to submit evidence of ethical approval from the appropriate Research Ethical Committee when requested by the editors or publisher including submission of log book research or field notes.
16. If there are comments or responses about the paper that have been published then the authors are encouraged to provide adequate responses.

E. Sponsorship

1. The sponsor is not entitled to intervene in the content of the paper or the selection of scientific journals by the author.
2. The sponsor may give permission to the author to use research data to be published, and if for some reason there is information that cannot be published then the sponsor is obliged to provide explanation to the author.

Adapted from:

1. LIPI. 2014. Regulation of the Head of Indonesian Institute of Sciences No. 5 of 2014 on the Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications. Retrieved from http://jdih.lipi.go.id/?page=peraturan&act=search&id_peraturan_cat=68 on August 9, 2017

2. COPE. 2015. COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from https://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf on August 9, 2017

Screening for Plagiarism

The manuscript submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin.

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Digital Archiving

This journal utilizes the PKP-PN LOCKSS  system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.