Journal Policy

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Submitted manuscripts will be pre-reviewed by the editors to determine whether they conform to the Management Analysis Journal submission guidelines. Manuscripts that conform to the journal's style will be peer-reviewed. The Management Analysis Journal is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that involves many experts in the relevant field of management as reviewers. The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely decided by the editors according to reviewers' comments.

Manuscripts will be sent to at least two reviewers based on their expertise and specialization, or their historical experience in reviewing manuscripts. The Journal has reviewed forms to ensure that the same items are reviewed by two reviewers. Then, the editorial board makes a decision based on the reviewer's comments or advice. Reviewers provide their assessment of originality, clarity of presentation, and contribution to the field of business and management studies. The Management Analysis Journal has four kinds of decisions:

1. Accepted, as it is
2. Accepted by Minor Revisions (let authors revise with stipulated time)
3. Accepted by Major Revisions (let authors revise within the stipulated time)
4. Rejected (generally, on the grounds of the outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation)

 

SECTION POLICIES

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PLAGIARISM POLICY

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed. The Management Analysis Journal uses a plagiarism checker to screen articles for plagiarism. Detection of overlapping and similar text is used there, and so quotations and appropriate citations have to be used whenever required. For checking Plagiarism, the MAJ Editorial Board will use Turnitin to screen submissions. If it is found to indicate plagiarism (above 20%), the editorial board will reject the manuscript automatically.

Before publishing, it is required to obtain written confirmation from authors concerning the Originality Statement from Author(s). This statement is to be signed by at least one of the authors who have obtained the assent of the co-author(s) where applicable.

RETRACTION POLICY

Basically, journal editors can not independently deciding which articles shall be published. In making decisions regarding publishing, editors are guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and are limited by applicable legal requirements relating to defamation, copyright infringement, double publishing, and plagiarism. Articles that have been published will remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, under certain circumstances can arise where articles that have been published must then be withdrawn or even deleted. Such actions should not be carried out except in exceptional circumstances.

A retraction of articles that have been published can be initiated by journal editors, by authors and/or their institutions. In certain cases the retraction must be accompanied by an apology for the previous mistakes and/or expressions of gratitude to those who revealed the error to the author. A retraction of published scientific articles must be accompanied by a statement that the original article must not be published and that data and conclusions should not be used as part of the basis for future research.

Article Withdrawal

This circumstances can occur if the initial version of the article contains an error, or may have been accidentally sent twice to both Management Analysis Journal and/or a different publisher. In addition, it can also occur due to an element of Infringements of the scientific code of ethics, such as double submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles that meet the element of Infringements of the code of ethics upon the awareness of the author can make a withdrawal of his article accompanied by a letter of statement withdrawal addressed to the editorial board of MAJ.

Article Retraction

A retraction is carried out if an article is indicated to have Infringements of scientific ethical codes, such as double submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, fake authors, or the like. Additionally, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submissions or publications. A retraction of an article by the author or editor under the advice of the editorial board of MAJ. There are several forms of retraction carried out by the Journal, i.e.:

1. If the infringements of the scientific code of ethics are indicated before the article is published, the editor will return the manuscript to the author, accompanied by a retraction letter from the Chief Editor;
2. If the infringements of the scientific code of ethics are indicated after the article published, there are several mechanisms that can occur:
1. A retraction note titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
2. The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself.
3. The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”
4. The HTML version of the document is removed.

Article Removal: Legal Limitations

In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database of MAJ. This will only occur where the article is clearly defamatory, hoax, infringes others’ legal rights, a court order, and endangering state security. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article Replacement

In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances the procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the database retraction notice will publish a link to the corrected re-published article and a history of the document.

 

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

The manuscript texts are written in English or Indonesia. Manuscripts will be first reviewed by editorial boards. The main text of a manuscript must be submitted as a Word document {.doc} or Rich Text Format {.rtf} file. The manuscript consists of 5000 words {minimum}, well-typed in single column on A4 size paper, use 12 pt of Times New Roman. The manuscript contains an original work and have potentially contribute to the highly scientific advancement.

The manuscript should contain the following section in this order:

Title: Title of articles in English should describe the main content of manuscripts, be informative, concise, and not too wordy {12-15 words only}, and does not contain formulas.

The authors name: Full name without academic degrees and titles, written in capital letters. Manuscript written by groups needs to supplemented by complete contact details.

Name of affiliation for each author: The author’s name should be accompanied by complete affiliation address, postal code number, telephone number and email address.

Abstract: Written briefly in English in one paragraph of 150-200 words, containing background, research objectives, methodology, results, conclusion of the study and your research contributions to science.

Keywords: Written in English 3-5 words or groups of words, written alphabetically.

Introduction: Explaining the background, problems, importance of research, brief literature review that relates directly to research or previous findings that need to be developed, and ended with a paragraph of research purposes. A balance must be kept between the pure and applied aspects of the subject. The introduction is presented in the form of paragraphs of approximately 1000 words.

Methods: Make sure that work can be repeated according to the details provided. It contains technical information of the study presented clearly. Therefore, readers can conduct research based on the techniques presented. Materials and equipment specifications are necessary. Approaches or procedures of study together with data analysis methods must be presented.

Results and Discussion: Well-prepared tables and or figures must be of significant feature of this section, because they convey the major observations to readers. Any information provided in tables and figures should no longer be repeated in the text, but the text should focus on the importance of the principal findings of the study. In general, journal papers will contain three-seven figures and tables. Same data cannot be presented in the form of tables and figures. The results of the study are discussed to address the problem formulated, objectives and research hypotheses. It is highly suggested that discussion be focused on the why and how of the research findings can happen and to extend to which the research findings can be applied to other relevant problems.

Conclusion: Conclusion should be withdrawn on the basis of research findings, formulated concerns and research purposes. Conclusion is presented in one paragraph without numerical form of expression. Explain your research contributions to science.

Acknowledgement: Contributors who are not mentioned as authors should be acknowledged, and their particular contribution should be described. All sources of funding for the work must be acknowledged, both the research funder and the grant number {if applicable} should be given for each source of funds.

References: Manuscripts are written by using standard citation application {Mendeley/Endnote/Zotero}. APA {American Psychological Association} reference style is required.