Editorial Policy Statement

Manuscripts submitted to JPI: Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia must be original, prepared in accordance with the journal's author guidelines, and free from unethical practices. Authors remain accountable for all statements and scholarly claims in their work.

Manuscripts that do not follow the journal's required format and style may be returned for revision or declined. Accepted manuscripts may undergo editorial formatting and language correction without changing the authors' scholarly meaning.

Responsibilities and Standards

1. Responsibilities of Authors

• Originality and exclusive submission: Submit original work that has not been published elsewhere and is not simultaneously under review by another journal.
• Accurate reporting: Present research methods, evidence, results, and conclusions truthfully, with adequate details and references to support scholarly assessment or replication.
• Prohibition of misconduct: Avoid fabrication, falsification, redundant publication, plagiarism, and misleading reporting.
• Acknowledgment of sources: Credit sources for ideas, text, data, or findings that are not the authors' own.
• Authorship: List authors according to their substantive scholarly contributions; acknowledge contributors who do not qualify for authorship.
• Author approval: The corresponding author must ensure that all listed co-authors approve the final manuscript and agree to its publication.
• Funding and conflicts: Disclose financial support and relationships that may influence the work, including relevant commercial interests.
• Corrections: Notify the editorial office promptly when substantial errors are identified in published work and cooperate in appropriate corrections or retraction.

2. Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Voluntary review: Reviewers may decline assignments when their workload, lack of expertise, or other commitments prevent a fair and timely assessment.
• Review period: The journal's published editorial policy normally expects accepted review assignments to be returned within three weeks.
• Impartiality: Provide objective, respectful, reasoned, and constructive scholarly assessments without personal criticism.
• Confidentiality: Treat unpublished manuscripts and privileged review information as confidential; do not use that information for personal advantage.
• Conflicts of interest: Decline or disclose assignments involving relationships or interests that may compromise impartiality.
• Academic integrity: Identify significant uncited literature, possible unattributed borrowing, substantive overlap, and ethical concerns for editors.

3. Responsibilities of Editors

• Publication decisions: Make decisions according to journal policies, scholarly merit, reviewer evaluations, and applicable ethical and legal requirements.
• Fair evaluation: Judge manuscripts for intellectual content without discrimination based on the author's personal identity, beliefs, or background.
• Confidentiality: Share confidential submissions only with authorized participants in editorial assessment.
• Blind review: Protect the integrity of the journal's stated blind peer-review procedures and avoid unnecessary disclosure of author or reviewer identities.
• Research ethics: Consider potential harms and benefits of studies and request clarification or evidence of institutional ethics approval where applicable.
• Integrity: Address concerns about copyright infringement, plagiarism, and publication misconduct appropriately.

Editorial Process and Accountability

The journal may consult reviewers, the editorial board, and relevant editors before reaching a publication decision. Where a manuscript requires revision, authors are expected to address the editorial and reviewer feedback.

Editorial principles should be read together with the journal's Peer Review Process, Publication Ethics, and Retraction and Correction policies.