Jambura Journal of English Teaching and Literature (JJETL) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Letters and Culture, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. JJETL is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the Core Practices and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at https://publicationethics.org. This statement applies to all parties involved in publishing: the editors, the reviewers, the authors, and the publisher.
Duties of Editors
- Publication decisions. The Editor in Chief, with the editorial board, decides which submitted manuscripts are published. Decisions are based only on a manuscript's originality, scholarly quality, clarity, and relevance to the journal's scope, and on the reviewers' reports.
- Fair play. Editors evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, institutional affiliation, or political views.
- Confidentiality. Editors do not disclose information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
- Conflicts of interest. Editors do not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Manuscripts authored by an editor are assigned to another editor and go through the same double-blind review (see our Conflict of Interest Policy).
- Unpublished material. Editors do not use unpublished material from a submitted manuscript in their own research without the author's written consent.
- Investigations. Editors respond to ethical complaints about a submitted or published manuscript by following the COPE flowcharts. This may lead to a correction, an expression of concern, or a retraction.
Duties of Reviewers
- Contribution to editorial decisions. Peer review helps the editors decide and helps authors improve their work.
- Promptness. A reviewer who feels unqualified, or who cannot finish the review on time, informs the editor and declines the invitation.
- Confidentiality. Manuscripts under review are confidential documents. Reviewers must not share them or upload them to generative AI tools.
- Objectivity. Reviews are objective and constructive. Personal criticism of authors is not acceptable.
- Acknowledgement of sources. Reviewers point out relevant published work that the authors have not cited, and tell the editor about any substantial similarity to other published or submitted work.
- Conflicts of interest. Reviewers decline manuscripts in which they have competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with the authors or institutions.
Duties of Authors
- Reporting standards. Authors present an accurate account of the work and an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data are represented accurately. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are unethical.
- Originality and plagiarism. Authors submit entirely original work and cite the work of others appropriately (see our Plagiarism Policy).
- Multiple or concurrent submission. A manuscript must not be under consideration by another journal at the same time, and must not have been published elsewhere.
- Authorship. Only people who meet our Authorship Criteria are listed as authors, and all co-authors approve the final version.
- Research ethics. Research involving human participants (for example students, teachers, or interviewees) obtains informed consent and, where required, approval from an institutional ethics committee. Participants' identities are protected.
- Use of generative AI. Authors disclose any use of generative AI tools in the Methods or Acknowledgements section. AI tools cannot be listed as authors, and authors remain fully responsible for the content.
- Disclosure and conflicts of interest. Authors disclose all funding sources and any financial or personal relationships that could influence the work.
- Errors in published works. Authors who discover a significant error in their published work promptly notify the editor and cooperate in correcting or retracting it.
Duties of the Publisher
Universitas Negeri Gorontalo supports editorial independence. It ensures that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no influence on editorial decisions, and it preserves the journal's content through digital archiving.
Plagiarism Policy
JJETL does not tolerate plagiarism in any form, including verbatim copying, paraphrasing without citation, self-plagiarism (text recycling), and the presentation of others' ideas or data as one's own. Every submission is checked with Turnitin before it is sent to reviewers, and again before publication. The reference list and properly quoted material are excluded from the calculation.
A manuscript is acceptable for review when its overall similarity index is 20% or less. Above this index, the manuscript is returned to the authors for revision before review. In case plagiarism detected after publication, the journal follows the COPE flowcharts and may publish a correction or retract the article (see our Correction and Retraction Policy).
Authors who reuse material from their own theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, or earlier publications must state this in the cover letter and cite the original source.
Handling Allegations of Research Misconduct
Research misconduct includes fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, image or data manipulation, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, authorship disputes, and unethical treatment of research participants. JJETL takes every allegation seriously and handles it according to the COPE flowcharts and guidelines.
Anyone may raise a concern about a submitted or published article by writing to the Editor in Chief at [email protected]. Please include the article details, a description of the concern, and any supporting evidence. Concerns may be raised anonymously if they are supported by sufficient evidence. The Editor in Chief acknowledges receipt within 7 days and carries out a confidential preliminary assessment. If the concern appears justified, the editor contacts the authors, explains the concern, and asks for a response and, where relevant, the original data. If the authors' response is unsatisfactory, the editor may contact the authors' institution and ask it to investigate. Depending on the outcome, the journal may take no action, publish a correction, issue an expression of concern, or retract the article. All parties are treated fairly, and the identity of anyone raising a concern in good faith is kept confidential.