Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Lex Prudentium Law Journal is a peer-reviewed journal published by Jurist Cendekia.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.

 Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The following guidelines are in accordance to (Committee on Publication Ethics) COPE’s guidelines.

The publication of an article in Lex Prudentium Law Journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific methods. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the editor, the reviewer, the publisher, and the society. As the publisher of Lex Prudentium Law Journal, Jurist Cendekia takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and it recognizes its ethical and other responsibilities. Jurist Cendekia committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Publication Decisions:

The editors of Lex Prudentium Law Journal is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making their decisions.

Duties of Authors:

1. Reporting Standards:

The Authors of original research reports must provide an accurate description of the work done and an objective discussion of its importance. Furthermore, the underlying data must be correctly described in the submitted document. In order to encourage others to reproduce the work, sufficient descriptions and references need to be included. Fraudulently or knowingly inputting inaccurate statements is unethical behavior and extremely unacceptable.

2. Data Access:

When necessary, Authors are required to provide the primary data related to the paper for editorial review.

3. Originality and Plagiarism:

The authors need to confirm that they have published entirely original works. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, the author should cite and reference the other authors accordingly.

4. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication:

Manuscripts containing essentially the same research work should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication as it is assumed dishonest and inexcusable publishing behavior.

5. Acknowledgement of Sources:

It is an obligation to provide proper acknowledgement for work of others. The authors have to cite the articles that influenced the characteristics of the reported work.

6. Authorship of the Paper:

Authorship, which involves listing specific individuals as co-authors, needs to be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. Meanwhile, contributors or co-authors should be noted or identified exclusively for those who partake in particular research projects' substantive aspects. The corresponding author needs to guarantee that only eligible co-authors should be included in the paper. The final version of the paper and its submission for publication has been seen and accepted by these individuals.

7. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

All Authors have to expose any cash flow and other meaningful potential conflicts of interest that could be perceived to affect the results of their manuscript's interpretation. Furthermore, all sources of funding should be reported for the research work.

8. Fundamental errors in published works:

Any significant error or inaccuracy in the published work discovered by the author should be retracted and corrected by directly notify the journal's editor or publisher;

9. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects:

In the manuscript, the author should explicitly define whether the study contains dangerous substances, processes, or devices that pose unusual hazards in their use.

Duties of Editors:

1. Fair Play:

Without being affected by gender, ethnicity, ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation, citizenship, or political opinions of the authors, an editor must always review manuscripts for their intellectual content.

2. Confidentiality:

Any information found in the manuscript sent to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, prospective reviewers, other editorial advisors and the publisher shall not be disclosed by the editor and any editorial staff, as appropriate.

3. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

Editors shall not, without the legal permission of the authors,use any unpublished material disclosed in the submitted manuscript.

4. Publication Decisions:

The editorial board of Lex Prudentium Law Journal is liable for figuring out which of the submitted research papers shall be published. Meanwhile, the decisions should be based on the research's validation in question and its significance to researchers and readers. The editors can be guided by the journal's editorial policy and restricted by constitutional requirements such as defamation, breach of copyright, and plagiarism. Furthermore, in resolving the decisions, the editor may consult with other editors or reviewers.

5. Review of Manuscripts:

The editor must guarantee that every manuscript's composition has been assessed for its authenticity while also organizing and utilizing peer review reasonably and wisely. Furthermore, the editor needs to clarify to the authors about the peer review processes and identify which aspects of the article have been peer-reviewed. By selecting people with sufficient mastery and excluding those with conflicts of interest, editors must perform influential peer reviewers for papers considered for publication.

Duties of Reviewers:

1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions:

Peer review helps the editor determine editorial choices and helps the authors refining the paper through editorial discussions.

2. Promptness:

Any chosen reviewer who feels unfit to observe the research work in a manuscript or recognizes that an immediate review would not be possible is required to notify the editor and not furtherly take part in the review process.

 3. Standards of Objectivity:

Reviews need to be carried out objectively, the personal judgment is unseemly, and the reviewer needs to express their viewpoints with supporting information explicitly.

4. Confidentiality:

All submitted manuscripts need to be treated as secret reports. Furthermore, except for those authorized by the editor, they should not be displayed or examined with others.

5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:

It is compulsory to treat unique details or insights gained through peer review as confidential information and not exploited for individual gain. Moreover, reviewers do not need to evaluate manuscripts with conflict of interest because of collaborative competitive or other association or connection with any of the authors, businesses, or organizations.

6. Acknowledgement of Sources:

Reviewers ought to differentiate between similar published articles that the authors have not referred to. Likewise, the appropriate citation should be applied to every description where a previously recorded interpretation, inference, or statement is used. Finally, reviewers need to likewise bring to the editor's notice any overlap or noticeable similarity between the manuscript under scrutiny and any other published articles they have personal knowledge of.

7. Screening for Plagiarism

Plagiarism is checked for using the application,Turnitin.

Human Subject Protection

Lex Prudentium Law Journal adheres to the Human Subject Protection. It encourages research reports submitted to Lex Prudentium Law Journal to comply with local/national regulations and ethical considerations to ensure that human subjects are adequately protected from unreasonable risks and adequately informed of the potential harms and benefits of their research participation. 

However, it is the author's responsibility to obtain ethical clearance subject to research sponsor/donor/institution requirements before conducting research involving human participants and their data or tissue. The written consent from the research participant should be kept and - when requested - should be disclosed to the journal editor.  

Lex Prudentium Law Journal adopts the definition of 'human research' that includes:

• humans taking part in surveys, interviews, or focus groups
• humans undergoing psychological, physiological, or medical testing or treatment
• humans being observed by researchers
• researchers having access to participants' documents or other materials
• the collection and use of participants' body organs, tissues, or fluids (such as skin, blood, urine, saliva, hair, bones, tumors, and other biopsy specimens, or exhaled breath)
• accessing participants' information (in individually identifiable, re-identifiable, or non-identifiable form) as part of an existing published or unpublished source or database
• Accessing health information, personal information, and sensitive information for research purposes

Policy on Prior Publication

Lex Prudentium Law Journal welcomes submissions from authors and will consider these for publication where work has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.  It does not view the following prior uses of a work as prior publication:

• Publication in the form of an abstract
• Publication as an academic thesis
• Publication as an electronic preprint

Author Fee

Article submission and Publication in Lex Prudentium Law Journal is free of charge.

Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR). No fees incurred for article processing, submission, neither reviewing the articles.

For Libraries/Individual, can read and download any full-text articles for free of charge

Plagiarism Policy

Every manuscript submitted for publication in Lex Prudentium Law Journal is checked for plagiarism after submission and before being sent to an editor for editorial review.

Lex Prudentium Law Journal uses ‘Turnitin Software’ to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

How are manuscripts with plagiarism handled?

The manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected are handled based on the extent of plagiarism present in the manuscript.

<5% plagiarism - The manuscript is assigned a manuscript ID and it is immediately sent back to the authors for content revision.
5–25% plagiarism - The manuscript is NOT assigned a manuscript ID and it is immediately sent back to the authors for content revision.
>25% plagiarism - The manuscript is rejected without editorial review. The authors are advised to revise the plagiarized parts of the manuscript and resubmit it as a fresh manuscript.

Author Guideline

Please read and understand the author's guidelines for the preparation manuscript. The author who submits a manuscript to the editors should comply with the author's guidelines and template. If the submitted manuscript does not comply with the guidelines or using a different format, it will be rejected by the editorial team before being reviewed. The editorial team will only accept a manuscript that meets the specified formatting requirements (downloadable at: Template and Author Guidelines). This template is designed to assist Author in preparing manuscript; it is an exact representation of the format expected by the editor. To use this template, please just Save As this MS Word file to your document, then copy and paste your document here. All papers submitted to the journal should be written in English language.  

PAPER FORMAT

• The word limit for the submission is 4000-8000 words (including of footnotes and abstract). 
• The sequence of manuscripts following: Title; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Main Heading Analysis; Conclusion; and References.
• Referencing style uses APA Style.

Title

Title of articles are written with Calibri Light Bold (18 pt) and preferably not more than 14 words. Author(s) name, affiliations and e-mail.

Abstract

The abstract should be clear, concise, and descriptive. This abstract should provide a brief introduction to the problem, objective of paper, followed by a statement regarding the method and a brief summary of results. Font with Calibri Light (10 pt) and preferably not more than 200 words.

Keywords

Keywords arranged by alphabetically and should have at least two keywords and maximum five keywords separated by a semicolon (;).

Introduction

The introduction should be clear and provide the issue to be discussed in the manuscript. At the end of the paragraph, the author/s should end with a comment on the significance concerning identification of the issue and the objective of research.

Analysis and Discussion

This section is the most important section of your article. Contains the results of the object of study and should be clear and concise.

Conclusion 

Conclusion contains a description that should answer the objectives of research. Do not repeat the Abstract or simply describe the results of the research. Give a clear explanation regarding the possible application and/or suggestions related to the research findings.

References

For submissions to issues published from 2021 onwards, Lex Prudentium  uses APA Style in the References at the end of the manuscript. Cite only items that you have read and written on bodynotes. Please use Reference Manager Applications like EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Use other published articles in the same journal as models. All publications cited in the text should be included in the References section and arranged alphabetically. 

The citation quick guide can be found at: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples