Jurnal Peternakan Unggul is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. This statement clarifies ethical conducts 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 (Universitas Tjut Nyak Dhien). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Elsevier publication ethical guideline. 

Journal Publication Ethical Guideline

The publication of an article in JPU is an important element 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 assist and express the scientific method. Therefore, it is essential to agree upon standards of expected ethical conducts for all parties: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.   

Universitas Tjut Nyak Dhien as publisher of Jurnal Peternakan Unggul are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Universitas Tjut Nyak Dhien and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary. 

Duties of Authors

 Reporting standards

 Authors should demonstrate an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Research data should be depicted accurately in the paper. The manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical conduct and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective and editorial opinion work should be clearly identified as such. 

Data Access and Retention 

Authors could be proposed to prepare the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial and should be ready to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. 

Originality and Plagiarism 

Authors should confirm that they have prepared entirely original works and if the authors used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing conducts and is intolerable. 

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication 

Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing conducts and is intolerable. In general, authors should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper.

 Acknowledgment of Source 

Always give due credit to other people's contributions. Citations for works that had a significant impact on understanding the nature of the reported work are required. Private information received through conversations, letters, or discussions with third parties is not to be used or reported upon without the source's express, written consent. 

 Authorship of the Paper 

Authorships are those who have made a significant contribution to the creator, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported investigation. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. All co-authors have confirmed and approved the final version of the manuscript and have approved its submission for publication. 

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

The author must clearly identify these in the manuscript when chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use are involved in the work. The author should ensure that the paper involves a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committees have approved them If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects. 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

 Financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript should be disclosed in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be revealed. Potential conflicts of interest should be stated at the earliest stage possible. 

Fundamental errors in published works 

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 if an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

 Duties of Editors 

Publication decisions 

The editors of the JPU are in charge of determining which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working in conjunction with the relevant society. The work validation in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor could be guided by the journal's Editorial Board policies and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor could communicate with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. 

Fair play 

The editor of the JPU should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without considering race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

 Confidentiality 

The editor and any editorial staff of the JPU should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. 

Disclosure and conflicts of interest 

Unpublished materials provided in a submitted paper must not be utilized in an editor's own research without the author's express written consent. Information or ideas covered through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. The editors of the JPU should prevent themselves (i.e. should ask a coeditor, associate editor or another member of the Editorial Board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. If competing interests are revealed after publication, the editors should need all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections. If necessary, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern. 

Journal Self Citation 

The editor of the JPU should never conduct any practice that obliges authors to cite her or his prior journal either as an implied or explicit condition of acceptance for publication. Any recommendation regarding articles to be cited in a paper should be made on the basis of direct relevance to the author’s article. The editors should command authors to cite the relevant literature as part of the peer review process, however, this should never extend to blanket instructions to cite individual journals. 

Involvement and cooperation in investigations 

The editor of the JPU should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.

 Duties of Peer Reviewers

 Contribution to editorial decisions 

Peer review assists the editor of the JPU in creating editorial decisions and through the communications of editorial with the author may also assist the author in rejuvenating the paper. Peer review is a crucial component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. JPU shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing. 

 Promptness 

The reviewer should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process if  he or she feels unqualified to peer review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible 

 Confidentiality

 Any manuscripts received for peer review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor. 

 Standards of objectivity 

Peer reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their comments or advice clearly with supporting arguments. 

 Acknowledgment of sources 

Relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors should be identified by peer reviewers. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. The peer reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge. 

Disclosure and conflict of interest 

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the author's express written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Peer reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscripts.

 Screening for plagiarism

The submitted article will be checked using Turnitin system for plagiarism checking.