Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus and scopes of this journal to improving maternal and children health are:

  • Social health
  • Nutrition
  • Phsycology
  • Epidemiology,
  • Health promotion and behaviour
  • Health policies
  • Health reproduction 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Initial Review processes by Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by Blind peer review Process. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise. These processes take a month for a maximum time. In the each manuscript, Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects.

Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer that collaboration with SIKLUS : Journal Research Midwifery Politeknik Tegal is the experts in the health science area and issues around it. They were experienced in the prestigious journal management and publication that was spread around the national and abroad.

 

Publication Frequency

Siklus : Journal Research Midwifery Politeknik Tegal is a peer-reviewed journal published two times a year.

 

Open Access Policy

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

Duties of Authors


1. Reporting

The author must provide information about the process and the results of his research to the editorial in an honest, clear, and comprehensive, and still keep the research data well and safely.


2. Originality and plagiarism

The author is not involved in plagiarism or self-plagiarism. The author has to make sure that the manuscript that has been sent to the editors is the original, written by himself, sourced from own ideas and concept, and not plagiarize the papers or ideas and concept of others. Authors are strictly prohibited from passing the name of the reference source cited to someone else's name.


3. Repetition of delivery

The author should inform that the manuscript sent to the editor is a script that has not been submitted to a journal publisher or other publication. If there is any redundancy in the submission of a manuscript to another publisher, the editor will reject the submitted manuscript.


4. Author status

The author should inform the editor that the author has the competence or qualifications in a particular field of expertise in accordance with the field of publication, namely librarianship. The author who submits the manuscript to the editor is the first author (co-author) so that if found the problem in the process of publishing the script can be completed.


5. Error writing script

The author should immediately inform the editor if found errors in the script writing, both the results of reviews and edits. Writing errors include the writing of names, affiliations / agencies, quotations, and other writings that can reduce the meaning and the susbtance of script. If that happens, the author should immediately propose the repair of the manuscript.


6. Confidentiality of information

The author does not provide personal information that allows the identification of the patient's identity in various forms of section description, photographs or pedigree. When photographs of patients become extremely important and necessary as scientific information, the author has received written approval and is included in the submitted manuscript.


7. Disclosure of conflicts of interest

The author must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid any conflict of interest with other parties, so the script can be processed smoothly and safely

 

Duties Of Editors


1. Publication information

Editors should ensure that scriptwriting guidelines for authors and other interested parties can be accessed and read clearly, both printed and electronic. Editors can communicate with other editors when making a final decision.


2. The sharing of peer-reviewed manuscripts

Editors should make sure reviewers and manuscripts for review, as well as inform the provisions and process of reviewing the manuscript clearly to reviewers.


3. Objectivity and neutrality

Editors should be objective, impartial, and honest in editing the manuscript, regardless of gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and author's citizenship. Editor's decision should be informed to the author along with the reviewer's comment, unless the comment contains an offensive or defamatory statement. The editor must refuse his assignment when there is a potential conflict of interest.


4. Confidentiality

The editor must ensure that documents submitted to the reviewer do not contain information about the author, and vice versa. The editor must respect the writer's request, that one should not review the writing, if for a reasonable and practical reason. The editor and all staff should ensure the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.


5. Disclosure of conflicts of interest

Editors should understand the ethics of the above scientific publications to avoid any conflict of interest with others, so the process of publishing the manuscript runs smoothly and safely.

 

Duties Of Editor


1. Publication information

Editors should ensure that scriptwriting guidelines for authors and other interested parties can be accessed and read clearly, both printed and electronic. Editors can communicate with other editors when making a final decision.


2. The sharing of peer-reviewed manuscripts

Editors should make sure reviewers and manuscripts for review, as well as inform the provisions and process of reviewing the manuscript clearly to reviewers.


3. Objectivity and neutrality

Editors should be objective, impartial, and honest in editing the manuscript, regardless of gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and author's citizenship. Editor's decision should be informed to the author along with the reviewer's comment, unless the comment contains an offensive or defamatory statement. The editor must refuse his assignment when there is a potential conflict of interest.


4. Confidentiality

The editor must ensure that documents submitted to the reviewer do not contain information about the author, and vice versa. The editor must respect the writer's request, that one should not review the writing, if for a reasonable and practical reason. The editor and all staff should ensure the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.


5. Disclosure of conflicts of interest

Editors should understand the ethics of the above scientific publications to avoid any conflict of interest with others, so the process of publishing the manuscript runs smoothly and safely.

 

Duties Of Journal Manager


1. Decision-making

The manager of the journal / editorial board should describe the mission and objectives of the organization, especially those relating to the determination of policy and decision of journal publishing without any particular interest.


2. Freedom

Journal managers should give the reviewers and editors the freedom to create a comfortable working atmosphere and respect the privacy of the author.


3. Warranties and promotions

Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyright), as well as transparent in managing funds received by third parties. In addition, journal organizers should publish and promote publication results to the public by providing assurance of usefulness in the use of the manuscript.


4. Disclosure of conflicts of interest

Journal managers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid any conflict of interest with other parties, so the process of publishing the manuscript runs smoothly and safely.

 

Screening For Plagiarism

The manuscript that submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using plagscan

 

Copyright Form

Procedure:
1. The author is required to send the signed Copyright Form. 
2. Scan in PDF format 
3. Send the scanned form as a supplementary file at the time of article submission

Download COPYRIGHT FORM

If you have question please contact us:
journal.siklus@poltektegal.ac.id/journal.siklus@gmail.com

 

License

SIKLUS : Journal Research Midwifery Politeknik Tegal published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License / CC BY 4.0 This license permits anyone to copy and redistribute this material in any form or format, compose, modify, and make derivative works of this material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, so long as they include credit to the Author of the original work.