Journal Policy

License and Copyright

Please find the rights and licenses in Indonesia Journal of Applied Environmental Studies (InJAST). By submitting the article/manuscript of the article, the author(s) agree with this policy. No specific document sign-off is required.

1. License

The non-commercial use of the article will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution license as currently displayed on Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

2. Author(s)' Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).

3. User Rights

InJAST is to disseminate/published articles are as free as possible. Under the Creative Commons license, InJAST permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only. Users will also need to attribute authors and InJAST on distributing works in the journal and other media of publications.

4. Rights of Authors

Authors retain all their rights to the published works, such as (but not limited to) the following rights;

  • Copyright and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
  • The right to use the substance of the article in own future works, including lectures and books,
  • The right to reproduce the article for own purposes,
  • The right to self-archive the article,
  • The right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal (Indonesia Journal of Applied Environmental Studies).

5. Co-Authorship

If the article was jointly prepared by more than one author, any authors submitting the manuscript warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to be agreed on this copyright and license notice (agreement) on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this policy. InJAST will not be held liable for anything that may arise due to the author(s) internal dispute. InJAST will only communicate with the corresponding author.

6. Royalties

Being an open accessed journal and disseminating articles for free under the Creative Commons license term mentioned, author(s) aware that InJAST entitles the author(s) to no royalties or other fees. 

Fee

No fees incurred for article processing, submission, reviewing, neither publishing the articles.

The aim of the Journal is to promote applied environmental research and management in Indonesia at no cost to authors, no subscription or membership cost, and no hidden cost, on a regular basis without compromising on ethics, standards and pre-requisites of scientific publications.

Plagiarism policy

Plagiarism screening will be conducted by the editors of Indonesia Journal of Applied Environmental Studies (InJAST) using similarity software (Turnitin). Article manuscripts must obtain a similarity index of less than 30%. We will return the manuscripts to authors should the similarity index is more than 30%. Authors may rewrite the manuscripts to meet our requirement in this regard and resubmit the rewritten manuscripts. The resubmitted manuscripts will go into the new screening process, and if for any reasons the similarity index is still above 30%, the editors will reject the manuscripts.