JCOSE Journal of Guidance and Counseling with registered number ISSN 2657-070X (Online) and ISSN 2622-6057 (Print) is a periodical journal managed by the Guidance and Counseling Study Program team, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Pancasakti Tegal. The journal is committed to upholding high standards of publication ethics and taking all necessary steps to avoid ethical violations in publications. All authors who submit their work to this journal for publication must adhere to the following ethical guidelines, which are in accordance with the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

1. Duties of Editors

 

Fair Play 

Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality 

Editors and editorial staff must ensure that all submitted manuscripts are treated confidentially. They must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and other editorial advisers, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest 

Editors and editorial board members will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their research purposes without the author's explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Publication Decisions 

Editors are responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published. The decision should be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. Editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Involvement and Cooperation in Investigations 

Editors will take responsive measures when ethical concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper. In cases of suspected misconduct, they will follow COPE's guidelines and take appropriate action, including the retraction of the manuscript or publication if necessary.

2. Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions 

Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions, and through editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness 

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.

Confidentiality 

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity 

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources 

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. They should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest 

Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

3. Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards 

Authors of reports 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 and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention 

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and they should be prepared to provide public access to such data if possible. They should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism 

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication 

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources 

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper 

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest 

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works 

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

4. Duties of the Publisher

 

Handling of Unethical Publishing Behavior 

In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work.

Access to Journal Content 

The publisher is committed to ensuring that the journal remains accessible to as wide an audience as possible through a combination of open access models and subscriptions.