PUBLICATION ETHICS

STORAGE: Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik dan Ilmu Komputer is a peer reviewed, open access journal. It publishes research in architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science four times a year, in February, May, August, and November. The journal is published by Yayasan Literasi Sains Indonesia.

This statement is guided by the standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It applies to everyone who takes part in the publication of the journal: the publisher and the journal management, the editors, the peer reviewers, and the authors. All of them are expected to read this statement and to follow it.

Core Values

The ethics of the journal rest on three values.

Value	Meaning
Neutrality	The management of the publication is free of conflicts of interest.
Fairness	Authorship credit is given to those who are entitled to it.
Honesty	Publications are free of duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism.

1Duties of the Publisher and Journal Management

Peer reviewed publication supports the scientific method and a shared network of knowledge. The publisher and the journal management take their responsibilities seriously and make the following commitments.

No.	Commitment
1	Publish manuscripts that have been edited, reviewed, and laid out according to the norms of scholarly publishing.
2	Make decisions that are free from outside interests, and make sure that advertising, commercial revenue, and author fees do not influence editorial decisions.
3	Guarantee the academic freedom of the editors and the reviewers in their roles, and respect the privacy of the authors.
4	Protect intellectual property and copyright. See the Copyright Notice and the Licensing pages.
5	Manage funds from third parties in an open and transparent way.
6	Support the long term availability of the published work, as described in the Archiving Policy, and promote the published work.
7	Assist the communication with other journals and publishers where it is useful.
8	Disclose any conflict of interest that affects the operation of the journal.

2Duties of Editors

Duty	Description
Publication decisions	Editors decide which manuscripts are published. They base the decision on the validity and the importance of the work for readers, through a transparent, objective, and fair review. They follow the policies of the editorial board and the legal requirements on copyright infringement, duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. They may consult other editors or reviewers.
Guidelines and review process	Editors make the author guidelines easy to find and to understand, assign suitable reviewers, and explain the review process to them. See the Peer Review Process.
Fair play	Editors apply equal treatment in review and publication decisions. They evaluate only the intellectual content of a manuscript, regardless of the personal characteristics, the institution, or the views of the authors.
Confidentiality	Editors do not disclose information about a submitted manuscript without the permission of the author. They share it only with the people who need it: the corresponding author, the reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher. In the double blind review, they protect the anonymity of the authors and of the reviewers.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest	Editors do not use unpublished material from a submitted manuscript in their own research without the written consent of the author, and they return unpublished manuscripts to the authors directly. Editors do not handle a manuscript when they have a conflict of interest. A manuscript from an editor or from a member of the editorial team is handled by an editor who is not involved in it, as described in the Conflicts of Interest policy.

3Duties of Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers, known in Indonesian as mitra bestari, assist the editors in making editorial decisions and are responsible for the recommendations that they give.

Duty	Description
Contribution to decisions	Reviewers give an honest, objective, and independent evaluation that helps the editors to decide, and that helps the authors to improve the manuscript. See the Peer Review Process.
Promptness	A reviewer who does not feel qualified, or who cannot review the manuscript promptly, should decline the invitation. A review usually takes two weeks, and an extension must be agreed with the editorial office.
Confidentiality	Reviewers treat the manuscript as a confidential document. They do not show it to others, and they do not discuss it, without the authorization of the editors.
Objectivity	Reviews are objective. Personal criticism of the authors is not acceptable, and the views of the reviewer are supported by clear arguments.
Acknowledgement of sources	Reviewers check the citations and the references. They point out relevant published work that the authors have not cited, and they report any substantial similarity between the manuscript and other work that they know. They also report any suspected duplication, fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest	Reviewers keep the information from the review confidential and do not use it for personal or private gain. They decline to review a manuscript when they have a conflict of interest.

4Duties of Authors

Authors present their ideas and their research clearly and honestly, and they are responsible for the content of the manuscript and for the confirmations that they give when they submit it.

Duty	Description
Reporting standards	Authors report the research honestly and accurately, and they present the data, the results, the figures, and the code faithfully. The method must be described in enough detail for others to replicate the work. Fabrication, falsification, and knowingly inaccurate statements are unacceptable.
Data access and retention	Authors provide the raw data on request, make it public where this is practical, and keep it for a reasonable period after the publication. Data about participants must be protected. See the Data Sharing Policy.
Originality and plagiarism	Authors submit only original work, and they cite or quote the work of others properly. Plagiarism in any form, including incorrect or misattributed citations, is unacceptable. See the Plagiarism Policy.
Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication	Authors do not publish essentially the same research in more than one journal. They do not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.
Acknowledgement of sources	Authors give proper credit to the work of others and cite the publications that influenced their own work.
Authorship	Authorship is limited to those who made a significant contribution to the conception, the design, the execution, or the interpretation of the work. The corresponding author makes sure that all eligible coauthors are included and that they have approved the submission. See the Authorship and Contributorship policy.
Research involving people, personal data, or third party materials	Authors obtain the permission of the institution and the informed consent of the participants, with the consent of a parent or a guardian for minors. They protect the identity of the participants, and they use personal data, user data, and datasets only in line with the consent, the terms of use, and the law. Permission is also needed for the use of sites, buildings, drawings, software, and other third party materials. The Method section states how permission and consent were obtained.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest	Authors disclose any conflict of interest and all sources of financial support. See the Conflicts of Interest policy.
Use of generative AI tools	Authors follow the Generative AI Policies of the journal. AI systems cannot be listed as authors.
Copyediting and layout	Authors accept the copyediting and the layout changes that are made during the review and the production, as long as the substance and the core ideas of the manuscript do not change.
Fundamental errors in published work	When authors find a significant error in their published work, they notify the editors promptly and cooperate in the correction or the retraction of the article.
Withdrawal	An author who wants to withdraw a manuscript must inform the editorial office in writing and give the reason. Any charges that relate to a withdrawal are described on the Author Fees page.

5Types of Publication Misconduct

The following practices break the values of this statement. They are examined under the Allegations of Misconduct policy.

Type	Description
Fabrication	Making up data, results, or sources and reporting them as real.
Falsification	Changing or manipulating data, results, images, experiments, or processes so that the research is not represented accurately.
Plagiarism	Using the ideas, words, data, figures, drawings, or code of others without proper credit.
Duplicate, redundant, or concurrent submission	Publishing or submitting essentially the same work more than once without a clear explanation.
Authorship abuse	Gift, guest, or ghost authorship, and the trading or the coercion of authorship.
Undisclosed conflicts of interest	Hiding financial, personal, or professional interests that could influence the work or its evaluation.
Breach of confidentiality	Sharing or using confidential information from a manuscript or from a review for another purpose.
Unethical conduct of research	Doing research without the required permission or consent, or without the protection of participants and data.
Manipulation of the review process	Giving false identities or false reviews, or arranging the review or the citations to gain an unfair advantage.

6Ethical Concerns, Corrections, and Retractions

Reporting a concern. Anyone who has a concern about the ethics of a submitted manuscript or a published article can write to the editorial office at jurnal.storage@gmail.com. Please include the title of the article, the names of the authors, a description of the concern, and the evidence that you have.

Situation	What happens
Suspected misconduct	The concern is examined under the Allegations of Misconduct policy.
Error in a published article	The authors notify the editors, and a correction is published when it is needed, as described in the Correction and Retraction policy.
Serious problems in a published article	An article may be retracted when the data are fabricated, when the work was already published elsewhere, when it is plagiarized, or when it violates ethical standards. A retraction notice is published.
Scholarly comments on a published article	Comments and responses follow the Post-Publication Discussion procedure.

7Related Policies

Topic	Page
Peer review	Peer Review Process
Similarity and plagiarism	Plagiarism Policy
Authorship	Authorship and Contributorship
Conflicts of interest	Conflicts of Interest
AI tools	Generative AI Policies
Misconduct	Allegations of Misconduct
Corrections and retractions	Correction and Retraction
Scholarly comments	Post-Publication Discussion
Data	Data Sharing Policy
Preparing a manuscript	Author Guidelines and Manuscript Preparation
Fees	Author Fees