The following statement is based on Elsevier recommendations and the COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. RILS: Journal of Religion and Social Studies, UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta, adheres to the guidelines of the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

 

RILS is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and taking all possible action against publication malpractice. Authors submitting manuscripts to RILS declare that their work is original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, the authors affirm that the manuscript is their own work; has not been copied or plagiarized, in whole or in part, from another work; and have disclosed any actual or potential conflicts of interest in their work.

 

 

Article Publication Decisions

 

The RILS Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which articles should be published. The Editor-in-Chief is guided by the journal's editorial board policies and complies with legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may consult with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

 

 

The Editor-in-Chief must ensure that each manuscript undergoes an initial evaluation by a team of editors, who may use software (such as Turnitin) to check the originality of the manuscript's content. After passing the initial evaluation, the manuscript is forwarded to two peer reviewers for blind peer review. Each review stage should take at least one month after the reviewers have indicated their willingness. If the article is of exceptionally high or very low quality, a decision may be made more quickly.

 

Unpublished materials in a submitted manuscript must not be used by the editorial team for personal research without the express written consent of the author.

 

 

Manuscripts are evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

 

 

The editorial team must not disclose information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher.

 

 

 

If a reviewer feels it is impossible to complete the review within the allotted time, this must be communicated immediately to the editor so that the manuscript can be reassigned to another reviewer.

 

 

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents, and information contained therein must not be divulged.

 

 

Reviews should be conducted objectively and without personal criticism of the authors. Reviewers should express their views clearly with strong supporting arguments.

 

 

Reviewers are responsible for identifying relevant work that has not been cited by the authors. Reviewers should also report to the Editor-in-Chief any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and any other published work of their own.

Conflicts of Interest

 

Reviewers should not review manuscripts if they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors or institutions connected to the papers.

 

 

 

Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior.

 

 

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable.

 

 

Authors should ensure that their work is entirely original. If the authors have used the work or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or cited.

 

 

Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

 

 

Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. All significant contributors should be listed as co-authors.

 

 

If an author discovers a significant error in their published work, they must immediately notify the editor or publisher, who will request a retraction or correction of the manuscript (errata).

 

The publisher and RILS do not tolerate any form of plagiarism. Incidents of plagiarism will be handled seriously. We consistently seek advice from the Editorial Board and Reviewers to avoid any form of publication ethics malpractice.