Publication Ethics Statement

This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

The Editor Responsibility

  1. The editor of APMa Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat responsible in deciding articles to be published through editorial council meeting. Editor is guided by policy council and journal editorial restricted by valid law concerning defamation, copyright violation and plagiarism.
  2. In the process of articles acceptance, editor team works based on similarity treatment.
  3. In the process of journal review and decision of publication (articles), the editor team does not discriminate any races, sexes, religions ethnic, citizenship, or ideology of political writer.
  4. Editor and editorial team will not open any information about manuscript or article except there is permits from authorship.
  5. A manuscript (articles) that is not published after proposed would not be used as research by editor and will be returned directly to the author.

Reviewer by Partnership

Reviewer helps editor in making decisions on received article.

  1. Reviewer responsible to give recommendation on reviewed article.
  2. Review of script is done objectively and supported by clear argument.
  3. Reviewer maintain secrecy of information for personal gain.

Responsibility of the author

  1. The Author should present an article or research results clearly, honest, and no-plagiarism, and manipulation of data.
  2. The author responsible to confirms articles that have been proposed and written.
  3. The writer must obey requirements of publication in the form of original paper, no-plagiarism, and has never been published in journal or other publication.
  4. The author must show reference of opinion and other literature being quoted.
  5. The author must write a manuscript or article by carrying ethic, honest and responsible as the valid scientific authorial regulation.
  6. The author is prohibited to send similar articles to more than one journal or publication.
  7. The author has no objection if article being corrected without changing basic idea or substance of article.

Publisher Responsibility

  1. APMa Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat as scientific journal publisher responsible to publish article after the process of editing, peer review and layouts in accordance with the rules of scientific journal publishing.
  2. APMa Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat responsible to guarantee academic freedom of editor and  reviewer in running their job. APMa Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat responsible to keep privacy and protects intellectual property and copyright as well as editorial freedom.