Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

This journal accommodates articles / scientific works which has not been published yet. Fields of journal cover aspects of animal sciences: Nutrition and Animal Feed, Feed Science and Technology, Livestock Biotechnology, Animal Reproduction and Physiology,  Breeding and Genetics, Animal Production, Animal Behaviour, Socio-Economic Livestock, and Animal Products Science and Technology

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Each article sent to the editor will be selected through an initial review process by the Editorial Board. Next, a plagiarism check will be carried out using the existing plagiarism tool. Some policies in the review of JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis): 1. Reviewers will review any submitted paper. 2. Review process employs a double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. 3. In the review process, reviewers consider the correspondence of title, abstract, discussion (findings) and conclusions. Beside, reviewers also examine the novelty, scientific impact, and references used in the paper.

 

Publication Frequency

JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis) Published Two Times a year on Januari and Juli

 

Open Access Policy

JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis) publishes fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication provided the author and the journal are properly credited.

JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis)) operates under a  articles of this journal licensed under a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. This allows for the reproduction of articles, free of submissions charge, with the appropriate citation information. All authors publishing with the JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis)  accept these as the terms of publication.

 

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...

 

Policy of plagiarism

JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis)'s editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication in JSTT (Jurnal Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis). JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis) will use Turnitin's originality checking software as the tool in detecting similarities of texts in article manuscripts and the final version articles ready for publication. A maximum of 25% of similarities is allowed for the submitted papers. Should we find more than 25% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

 

Publication Ethics

JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis) is a peer-reviewed journal, available in print and online and published twice a year, in Januari and Juli. The code of conduct is designed to provide a set of minimum standards to which all parties involved are expected to adhere. It applies for those who involved in the process of publication, including the author, the editor in chief, the Editorial Board, the reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher / managers Animal Science Study Program, Muhammadiyah University of Gorontalo. This statement is based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s.

Editor Ethics

1. The entry script shall be the responsibility of the Editor to review thoroughly, transparently, objectively and fairly. The editor also has the authority to decide whether or not a text is to be published, subject to the board meeting. The editorial board's policies and various applicable laws on copyright, good name and plagiarism are absolute and inviolable.

2. The Editor is responsible for providing information regarding the terms and guidelines for writing clearly and easily accessible to potential authors.

3. The editor must also ensure that all manuscripts reviewed can be reviewed by the reviewer and all the requirements are read clearly.

4. The editor must be objective, impartial, and honest in editing the manuscript, regardless of gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and author's citizenship.

5. Editor and editorial team are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of the author and are prohibited from disclosing any information about the submitted manuscript or articles except with the author's permission.

6. The entry text shall be the responsibility of the editor and editorial team and shall not be misused, either wholly or partly for personal gain. Unpublished manuscripts will be returned to the author.

 

Reviewer ethics

1. Reviewer is responsible for the review made by giving various considerations and recommendations that are clear, measurable and comprehensive. The reviewer must respond to the manuscript within a specified time (4 weeks).

2. Reviewers must be honest, objective, unbiased, independent, and only in favor of scientific truth. The process of reviewing the manuscript is done professionally regardless of sex, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and author's citizenship

3. Reviewers shall ensure that reference sources and script quotations are appropriate and accountable.

4. Reviewers are required to always maintain the confidentiality of script-related information and authors for personal gain.

 

Author Ethics

1. The author is responsible for the manuscript sent to the JSTT (Jurnal Sains Ternak Tropis) and declares that the manuscript sent is the correct manuscript as the result of his own research or his thought, original as his own work and does not manipulate data, honestly and freely plagiarism.

2. the author should inform that the manuscript submitted / submitted to the editor is a script that has never been submitted / submitted to the publisher of another journal / publication. If there is any redundancy in the submission of a manuscript to another publisher, then the editor will reject the submitted manuscript.

3. The author shall indicate quotations and references obtained from the work of others and may not alter or alter the source.

4. The author will not object if the script is edited without changing the substance or main idea of writing.

5. 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.

 

Ethics Manager / PublisherJournal

1. Journal manager responsible for publishing articles after going through the process of editing, peer review, layout in accordance with the rules of publishing Scientific Journal.

2. Journal managers are responsible for ensuring academic freedom for editors and reviewers in performing their duties.

3. Journalists are responsible for maintaining privacy and protecting intellectual   property and copyright, and editorial freedom