Publication Ethics

JOURNAL OF Muhkal is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. This statement clarifies ethical attitude in a team work  in the process 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.

Ethical Direction for Publication

A peer-reviewed article is an absolutely necessary in the development of the quality of an article and giving feedback to the author. The author gets direct reflection regarding their article in the aim of improving of his effort.Through a peer-reviewed articles, it is part of following the scientific method. Therefore, necessary to concur in a standard attitude of the ethical direction for publication as a team who are involved, such as the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher.

The publisher takes commitment following all stages and extremely seriously in consequence of ethical responsibilities. The publisher ensures in all stages a process without affected by advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue on editorial decisions. In addition, the editorial Team a like to collaborate with other journals and/or publishers for the improving.

Publication Decisions

The editors responsible for deciding which of the articles to published. The editors adhere the policies of the journal's editorial board and requiring of  legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors  like to discussion in a team  to make final decision.

Fair Play

Regularly evaluates of articles  as  intellectual property with justice without any discrimination to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editors team prohibited spread any information about an article to anyone except to own author, reviewers, and other editorial advisers. Ensuring in the secrecy of the author is the right of dignity.

Disclosure And Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished article would like to return back to the author, removing from the database and preventing misapplication an article in the future.

The Reviewers Task

Contribution in Editorial Decisions

Assignment  as a peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial could feedback  any suggestions or recommendations to the author to improving the quality of the article.

Promptness

After receiving the article, the editor will immediately process and the author could follow the path of the management process until the final results of the publication.

Confidentiality

The article has been submitted at the time during a process, handling as confidential documents. The reviewer and editorial board take responsibility an article.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviewing process conducted in objectively. Personal criticism of the author is prohibited. The arbiter assesses an article like as consider of their views with clarity and supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers identified  relevant and appropriate anarticle, supported by citations. All statements that an observation, derivation, or argument reported accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer's warn to keep attention when finding any substantial similarity or overlap.

Disclosure And Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review keep on confidentially and preventing illegal use. Reviewers keep attention in conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or fellow authors, companies, or institutions.

The Author's Task

Reporting standards

The authentic an article presented by an author in referring the research result, finding data an accurately, creditable and accountability performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Insufficient contain detail and references may others by convenient to find the reference. The proceeding of data manipulation is considered a violation, an unethical behaviour and unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

The authors supply the raw data a relation to an article for editorial review, and also providing a public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), The author's article published, the author has to retain such data in serve of information when any event of a seminar presentation.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors make ensure that the article written is original,   of one's own and if the authors have used the statement of others, requiring an appropriate citation.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

The author is prohibited a publish same  an article in several journals, as indicating an unethical behaviour and unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

The author's attitude has to acknowledgment of the scientific paper of others, also requiring several citations from reputable of the journal.

Authorship of Research an Article

Authorship to be restricted, merely those who have a contribution in research process such as conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the result. The contributors to be mentions as co-authors. The main author ensures that all co-authors have an agreement, a final version of the article and going to publish.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

When the project involves a chemical, procedures or equipment that on the type of hazardous properties inherent in their use, the author to be explained clearly and identify these in the manuscript.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Authors required to expose clearly regarding a conflict such as financial conflict, substantive conflict, of interest that might be interpreted to affect of the result during a project. All financial resource support in the project needs to be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.