Plagiarism and Retraction

Editorial board of Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Undiksha recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore, it establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in submitted article for publication in Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Undiksha.

 

Definition:

Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of an author by representing it as own original work."

 

Policy:

Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication in any journal and proceeding. Any material taken from another source needs to be clearly-identified from the original text through (1) indentation, (2) quotation marks, and (3) source identification.

Any text exceeding the writing standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is identified, Editor in Chief is responsible for reviewing the paper and resend the paper to the author by stating that the paper is detected into plagiarism in the plagiarism notification letter in the following guidelines:

 

Level of Plagiarism

Minor:

A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper

Action: A warning is given to the author(s) and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article.

 

Intermediate:

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper.

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the author(s) are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

 

Severe:

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

Action: The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for two years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all sign in the Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Undiksha Copyright Transfer Form. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subjected to the same penalty.

 

The papers published in Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Undiksha will be considered for a retraction if  they have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error) the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication) it constitutes plagiarism it reports unethical research.

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)