Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The aim of Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya is to provide a venue for academics, researchers, and practitioners to publish research articles and review articles in the fields of Language, Literature, and Culture. The Focus and Scope of the articles published in this journal covers a range of topics, including:

1. Language: (a) Linguistics, (b) Indonesian language education, (c) Indonesian for Speakers of Other Languages (BIPA), and (d) Foreign languages.

2. Literature: (a) Indonesian literature, (b) Regional literature, (c) Foreign literature, and (d) Literature education and teaching.

3. Culture: (a) Indonesian culture, (b) Regional culture, (c) Foreign culture, and (d) The arts.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Journal Section

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Peer Review Process

Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya applies a review policy to all submitted manuscripts. The process is as follows:
 
  1. The author submits the manuscript.
  2. The editor checks the manuscript with Turnitin software to detect possible plagiarism.
  3. The plagiarism check result determines whether the manuscript is ACCEPTED or REJECTED for further processing.
  4. The editor returns manuscripts that pass the plagiarism check to the author through OJS for revision according to the editor's instructions.
  5. The author returns the revised manuscript to the editor through OJS.
  6. The editor sends the manuscript to reviewers through a double-blind review process.
  7. The reviewers submit their review results to the editor, who forwards them to the author.
  8. The author revises the manuscript according to the reviewers' notes and suggestions and returns it to the editor.
  9. The copy editor checks that the manuscript complies with the editorial board's policies.
  10. The proofreader checks that the manuscript complies with the Indonesian spelling guidelines (PUEBI).
  11. The layout editor checks that the manuscript complies with the template and the journal's style conventions.
  12. The journal manager publishes the manuscript according to the publication schedule.
 
The review process takes three to six weeks. Authors are asked to monitor OJS actively and to cooperate throughout the process.

 

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya is published three times a year, in January, May, and September.

 

Publication Charges

This journal charges the following fees:

Article submission: Rp 0 (free)

Article publication: Rp 200,000. This fee covers final proofreading, plagiarism checking, DOI registration, XML galley production, and the editing process.

 

Publication Ethics

Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya upholds scholarly publication ethics and refers to the COPE Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics and the scholarly publication ethics guidelines applicable in Indonesia. These provisions bind authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher.

Author obligations

  • The manuscript is original, has not been published before, is not submitted to another journal at the same time (no duplicate submission), and contains no plagiarism, fabrication, or falsification of data.
  • All persons listed as authors have made a real contribution and approved the manuscript; there is no name misappropriation and no ghost or gift authorship. Changes to the author list after submission must be approved in writing by all authors.
  • All sources are cited correctly. References must be real and traceable; fictitious references, including those generated by AI tools, are ethical violations.
  • Research involving human participants or animals states the ethical clearance or permission obtained and the informed consent given.
  • Authors disclose funding sources and any conflicts of interest, and report errors found after publication so that they can be corrected.

Editor obligations

  • Assess manuscripts on their quality and fit with the journal's focus and scope, without discrimination by race, religion, gender, nationality, or the author's affiliation.
  • Maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts and of reviewer identities, and do not use manuscript content for personal purposes.
  • Withdraw from handling a manuscript when there is a conflict of interest, and hand it over to another editor.
  • Ensure that every manuscript is peer reviewed, that decisions are based on the review results, and that the process is documented in OJS.

Reviewer obligations

  • Review objectively, substantively, and on time; maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript; disclose conflicts of interest; and report suspected ethical violations to the editor.

Use of artificial intelligence (AI)

  • AI tools cannot be authors and cannot be held responsible for the content of a manuscript.
  • Authors who use AI tools (for example, for language editing or translation) must state the name of the tool and the purpose of its use. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy of the content, data, and references.
  • Generating or manipulating data, images, and references with AI is prohibited.
  • Editors and reviewers do not upload manuscripts to generative AI tools because this violates confidentiality.

Handling of violations, corrections, and complaints

  • Suspected ethical violations are examined by the editor and the editorial board, and authors are given an opportunity to respond. A manuscript proven to violate ethics is rejected.
  • Errors in published articles are corrected through an erratum or corrigendum. Articles with serious violations (plagiarism, data fabrication, duplicate submission) are retracted with an official notice.
  • Complaints are submitted to the editor through the journal email ([email protected]) and answered in writing.

 

Plagiarism Check

Every manuscript is checked for plagiarism with similarity-detection software (Turnitin) before it is processed further. The maximum accepted similarity level is 20%.

 

Reference Management

Authors are advised to use a reference management application such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote when preparing articles for submission to Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

Articles published in Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya are indexed or registered in the following services:

  • Google Scholar
  • Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital)
  • ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) – ISSN Portal
  • Crossref (DOI registration: prefix 10.37905)