Publication Ethics & Policies

Last updated: 26 September 2026

Artikulasi: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia is committed to maintaining integrity, transparency, editorial independence, and accountability throughout scholarly publishing. The journal's policies are informed by internationally recognized publication-ethics practices, including principles and guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

These policies apply to authors, editors, reviewers, editorial board members, journal staff, and other parties involved in publication. Editorial decisions are based on scholarly quality and integrity, relevance to the Aims & Scope, and compliance with publication ethics. Decisions must not be influenced by institutional origin, nationality, personal identity, political or religious beliefs, commercial relationships, or payment of publication charges.

Artikulasi handles allegations of misconduct fairly, confidentially where possible, proportionately, and with appropriate documentation. The journal does not conduct institutional investigations beyond its authority; when necessary, it may seek clarification or refer concerns to relevant institutions, ethics committees, funders, or other appropriate authorities.

The journal's principal policies address Authorship & Contributorship; Conflicts of Interest; Research Misconduct; Plagiarism and Redundant Publication; Citation Manipulation; Data Availability; Ethical Oversight; Complaints & Appeals; Corrections, Retractions & Expressions of Concern; Copyright & Licensing; Open Access; Digital Preservation; Generative AI; and other related matters.

Authorship & Contributorship

Authorship should be limited to individuals who made substantive contributions to the conception or design of the study; acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; and/or drafting or intellectually substantive revision of the manuscript, and who approve the final version and accept accountability for their contributions. Artikulasi encourages use of the CRediT taxonomy to describe individual author contributions.

Individuals providing administrative, technical, language, funding, or other assistance who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged with their permission. Gift, guest, and ghost authorship are not permitted.

Author order should be agreed before submission. Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must include a written explanation and agreement from all authors. Following acceptance, authorship changes will be considered only in exceptional circumstances and may delay publication.

Conflicts of Interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose financial, professional, personal, academic, institutional, or other interests that could reasonably be perceived to influence the assessment, conduct, or interpretation of research. Disclosure does not necessarily exclude participation but enables editors to determine appropriate management.

Editors with a conflict of interest concerning a manuscript must recuse themselves from handling it. Manuscripts authored by editors or editorial board members must be handled by an independent editor, and journal-affiliated authors must not participate in reviewer selection or decisions concerning their own manuscripts.

Research Misconduct and Publication Malpractice

Artikulasi does not tolerate data fabrication or falsification, plagiarism, undisclosed duplicate or redundant publication, misleading image or data manipulation, peer-review manipulation, citation manipulation, inappropriate authorship, identity misuse, or other forms of research or publication misconduct.

Concerns may arise before or after publication. Editors conduct an initial assessment of available evidence, seek clarification where necessary, and maintain confidentiality. The journal does not determine guilt solely on the basis of an allegation. Where an issue requires investigation beyond the journal's authority, the editor may contact the relevant institution or authority. Outcomes may include termination of submission processing, rejection, correction, expression of concern, retraction, or another action proportionate to the evidence and publication stage.

Plagiarism, Redundant Publication, and Citation Manipulation

Sources, ideas, data, and words originating from others must be appropriately attributed. Reuse of an author's own previously disseminated text must also be transparent and proportionate. Artikulasi uses similarity screening as an editorial aid; decisions are not based solely on a single similarity percentage but on the source, location, nature, and context of matching material.

Manuscripts must not be redundantly published or simultaneously submitted to more than one journal. Relationships to preprints, theses/dissertations, conference proceedings, datasets, or previous works must be disclosed where relevant.

Authors are not required to cite Artikulasi, its editors, or reviewers. Reviewers and editors must not request irrelevant citations to increase citations to themselves, the journal, or another party. Citation requests must have a legitimate scholarly basis.

Data Availability and Reproducibility

Artikulasi encourages transparency of research data and materials where ethically, legally, and practically possible. Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement explaining whether supporting data are available, where they may be accessed or deposited, any conditions of access, or why the data cannot be shared.

Data must not be disclosed when doing so would breach privacy, informed consent, confidentiality, intellectual-property rights, security, or ethical/legal obligations. Where open sharing is not possible, authors should adequately explain the restriction. Editors may request data or supporting documentation for integrity assessment while respecting applicable ethical and legal requirements.

Ethical Oversight

Research involving human participants, personal or sensitive data, vulnerable populations, or other circumstances requiring ethical oversight must comply with applicable ethical standards and regulations. Authors should report ethics-committee approval and/or informed consent where relevant and required. Where formal ethics approval is not required, authors may be asked to explain the basis for exemption.

Participant identities and confidential information must be protected. Quotations, images, recordings, or other materials capable of identifying individuals may be published only when appropriate ethical grounds and permissions are in place. Research in educational settings should consider power relationships, voluntary participation, protection of learners, and data confidentiality.

Complaints and Appeals

Authors, reviewers, readers, or other parties may submit complaints concerning editorial processes, editorial conduct, journal policies, or published content through the journal's official contact channel. Complaints should identify the issue specifically and provide relevant evidence where possible.

Appeals against editorial decisions must be based on a specific alleged procedural or scholarly error rather than disagreement with the outcome alone. An appeal should identify the contested aspects of the decision or review and provide assessable scholarly reasons.

A complaint or appeal must not be decided by an individual who is the principal subject of the complaint or who has a conflict of interest. The Editor-in-Chief or a designated independent party will assess the matter and may request additional information. The outcome is documented and communicated to the relevant parties. Complaints concerning the Editor-in-Chief will be referred to an appropriate publisher representative independent of the case.

Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

Artikulasi maintains the scholarly record after publication. Errors that do not invalidate the work as a whole may be addressed through a correction notice clearly linked to the original article. Retraction may be considered when findings are unreliable because of major error or misconduct, material plagiarism or redundant publication is identified, research is unethical, peer review has been manipulated, or another serious issue undermines the validity or integrity of the article.

Retracted articles are not removed from the publication record except in exceptional legal or safety circumstances. Retraction status must be clearly visible, and the notice should adequately explain the reason without punitive language. An Expression of Concern may be issued when serious concerns exist but an investigation is incomplete or evidence is not yet sufficient for a final determination.

Corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern should carry metadata and links that allow readers to understand their relationship to the original article.

Post-publication Discussion

Artikulasi welcomes reasoned communications concerning published articles through the journal's official contact channel. Relevant scholarly criticism will be assessed editorially and, where appropriate, forwarded to the authors for response. New information indicating possible error or integrity concerns will be handled under the journal's correction, retraction, or research-misconduct procedures. Good-faith criticism should not be suppressed merely because it questions a published article.

Generative AI Policy

Generative AI or AI-assisted tools cannot fulfil authorship responsibilities and must not be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, attribution, data integrity, confidentiality, and entire content of their manuscripts.

Substantive use of GenAI in drafting, translation that affects scholarly content, analysis, data processing, image generation, coding, or other research activities must be transparently disclosed as relevant, including the tool, purpose, and part of the process assisted. Conventional spelling or grammar checking that does not generate substantive content may be treated according to the journal's applicable editorial policy.

Authors must not enter confidential data, participant data, another party's manuscript, or protected material into AI services when doing so would breach confidentiality, consent, copyright, or data-protection obligations.

Reviewers and editors must not upload unpublished manuscripts or confidential peer-review information to external GenAI systems where this may compromise confidentiality. Any use of AI in editorial processes must comply with confidentiality protections and journal policy.

Open Access Statement

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All articles are freely accessible immediately upon publication. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access and the terms of the License.

Copyright of published articles is held by Artikulasi: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

By submitting a manuscript, the authors declare that:

  1. the manuscript is the authors' original work and has not been published, nor is it under consideration for publication, elsewhere;
  2. all listed authors have approved the manuscript and its submission;
  3. the authors have obtained permission to use any third-party material (figures, tables, long quotations) included in the manuscript.

License

Creative Commons License BY-SA 4.0

Articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Anyone is free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format;
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the article for any purpose, including commercially;

under the following terms:

  • Attribution — give appropriate credit (authors, title, journal, DOI), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made;
  • ShareAlike — derivative works must be distributed under the same license;
  • No additional restrictions — legal terms or technological measures that restrict others from doing anything the license permits may not be applied.

Self-Archiving & Digital Preservation

Self-archiving by authors. Authors may deposit the submitted version (preprint), the accepted version (accepted manuscript), and the published version of their article in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or academic networks at any time without an embargo period, provided that the full citation and the article's DOI link are included.

Preservation by the journal. Published journal content is automatically preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a LOCKSS-based distributed digital preservation network operated by the Public Knowledge Project, so that the content remains available should the journal cease publication. Every article also has a DOI (Crossref).

ORCID iD Policy

ORCID iD is a unique and persistent digital identifier for researchers that distinguishes authors with similar names and links their works to their profiles.

  1. The submission metadata of every author must include an ORCID iD, in accordance with the Author Guidelines.
  2. The ORCID iD is entered in the author metadata in the system (user profile or contributor form) and is displayed on the article page.
  3. Authors who do not yet have an ORCID iD can register free of charge at orcid.org/register.

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