Publication Ethics
JPKAT Publication Ethics Statement (Journal of Pastoral Catechesis)
JPKAT (Journal of Pastoral Catechesis) is committed to ensuring the highest standards of scientific publication ethics. This publication ethics statement refers to the guidelines issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and LIPI Head Regulation Number 5 of 2014 concerning the Code of Ethics for Scientific Publication. This code outlines the ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the article publication process in this journal, including the Journal Manager, Editorial Board (Editor), Peer Reviewers, and Authors.
1. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
Publication Decisions: Editors are responsible for deciding which articles are suitable for publication. These decisions are based on the validity, significance, originality, and suitability of the work within the scope of JPKAT. Editors always adhere to the editorial board's policies and are bound by legal provisions relating to defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts based on their intellectual content without regard to the author's race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff are not permitted to disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the author, reviewers, prospective reviewers, and the authorised editorial board.
Conflict of Interest: Unpublished manuscript material may not be used for the editor's personal research without the author's written consent.
2. Duties and Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers (Reviewers)
Contribution to Editorial Decisions: The peer-review process assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communication with authors, can help authors improve their manuscripts.
Timeliness: Any reviewer who is invited but feels unqualified to review a manuscript, or knows that timely review is not possible, must immediately notify the editor so that another reviewer can be found.
Confidentiality: All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown or discussed with others unless authorised by the editor.
Objectivity Standards: Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers must express their views clearly, accompanied by supporting arguments.
Source Acknowledgement: Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors. Reviewers should also alert the editor if there are substantial similarities between the manuscript under review and other published works.
3. Author Responsibilities
Reporting Standards: Authors should present an accurate account of the research performed and discuss its significance objectively. The manuscript must contain sufficient detail and references so that others can replicate the research.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the research. All who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
Duplicate or Simultaneous Publication: Authors are not permitted to publish manuscripts that essentially describe the same research in more than one journal or major publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is unethical and unacceptable behaviour.
Fundamental Errors in Work: If authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work, they are obliged to immediately notify the editor or publisher of the journal and cooperate in retracting or correcting the article.
4. Plagiarism Policy
JPKAT rejects all forms of plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of another person's ideas, statements, or writings without properly citing the source. Plagiarism is a form of moral violation that falls under the category of intellectual property theft. Failure to properly reference academic sources is a serious, even criminal, offence and may be prosecuted (see Article 113 of Law No. 28 of 2014 on Copyright).
Categories of Plagiarism According to Permendiknas RI No. 17/2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Plagiarism in Higher Education, Chapter II, Article 2, paragraph (1), acts of plagiarism include but are not limited to:
1. Referring to and/or quoting terms, words and/or sentences without citing the source in the citation notes and/or without adequately stating the source.
2. Referring to and/or quoting randomly terms, words and/or sentences, data and/or information from a source without citing the source in the citation notes and/or without adequately stating the source.
Using sources of ideas, opinions, views, or theories without adequately stating the source.
3. Formulating in one's own words and/or sentences from sources of words and/or sentences, ideas, opinions, views, or theories without adequately stating the source.
4. Submitting scientific work produced and/or published by another party as one's own scientific work without adequately citing the source.
Obligation to Cite Sources Every work, idea, concept belonging to others, paraphrase (must be referenced to the original source), and every quotation, whether partial or complete (must be enclosed in quotation marks), must be referenced to the original source.
Prevention and Sanctions
Checking: We use Plagiarism Checker(X) software to check the level of text similarity (similarity test) in every manuscript submitted. Authors are also required to use a plagiarism checker application (such as Turnitin, Plagiarism Checker X, Grammarly, or iThenticate) before submitting an article.
Reference Management: Authors are required to use citation applications such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote. Paraphrases must also include references and be accompanied by the author's analysis/response (affirmation or rebuttal).
Penalties: Articles that are indicated to have plagiarised beyond the tolerance limit will be immediately returned/rejected, and the authors will be blacklisted and their work will be rejected by JPKAT for 3 (three) years.
5. Special Provisions (Nihil Obstat)
Given the journal's focus on pastoral catechesis, every research article with significant ethical, moral, and theological implications must include a Nihil Obstat from the local Catholic Church Magisterium to ensure its conformity with the Church's teachings on faith and morals.
