Every submitted article will be subject to single blind peer review. The normal review period is six months (depending on schedules). All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editorial screening and refereeing by anonymous referees. Authors should take care that the manuscript contains no clues as to identity. Nevertheless, articles published under ‘Research Notes’ section, aimed at setting up future research agenda, are non peer-reviewed.
All selected articles will be subject to language editing. The PCD Press will provide native proof reader to suggest language revision.
A. Reviewer Guideline
Reviewers have obligations to ensure the manuscript reviewed in PCD Journal follows the criteria below:
- Academic relevance
Contributions for theory (theoretical debates and reflection), consistency and relevance between issue and the use of theory, contextualization to the present situation.
- Arguments
Clearness, logics, supporting data.
- Originality/authenticity
Ideas showing newness/novelty.
- Systematic of writing
Abstracts, clearness and correlation between introduction, description, theoretical framework, methodology, analysis, conclusion.
- Writing techniques and citation
Effective sentences, consistency in using citation mode, body notes.
B. Results Guide
- Accepted
The article is perfect and need no suggestions for improvement.
- Minor revision
The article has clear contribution, ideas, and arguments, but needs little improvements, i.e.: textual changes, additional data/results/sources. The changes are assumed can be gathered very quickly.
- Major revision
The article has clear contribution and ideas, but needs improvements in methodology, arguments, data, results, technical quality.
- Rejected
The article does not show clear contribution, ideas, and arguments.
C. Screening for Plagiarism
The manuscript that submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin.