ethic

Publication Ethics
The statement follows suggestions on Elsevier's recommendations and the COPE Best Practice Guide for Journal Editors.
JDigital: Digital Journal of Information Technology and its Publishers, Institute for Research and Community Service, University of Muhammadiyah Palembang, this journal is participating in COPE. Code of Conduct and Code of Best Practice for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.
JDigital is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and taking all possible measures against publication malpractice. Authors submitting papers to register prove that their work is genuine and unpublished, and are not considering publication elsewhere. In addition, the authors confirmed that their paper was theirs; that it has not been copied or plagiarized, in whole or in part, from another work; and that they disclose an actual or potential conflict of interest with their work or some of the benefits associated with it.

EDITOR
Article Publication Decisions
The Chief Editor of JDigital is responsible for deciding which articles to submit to journals should be published. Editorial Leaders can be guided by the journal's editorial board policies and are subject to legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor in Chief can confer with the editor or other messages in making this decision.

Review of the Manuscript
The Editor in Chief must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by an editor / co-editor, who can use the appropriate software to check the authenticity of the manuscript contents and after this test, the manuscripts are forwarded to two referees for blind peer review, and each will makes a recommendation to publish the manuscript in its current form or to reject it. The review period will be from two weeks to one month (Maximum two months in exceptional circumstances).

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished material, for which the submitted manuscript insights may not be used by anyone who has views about the manuscripts in his own research without the written consent of the authors.

Fair game
Manuscripts must be evaluated solely based on their intellectual value which takes into account the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality
The Chief Editor / editor and any editorial staff, may disclose any information about the manuscript sent to anyone other than the author, which is prepared, inappropriately, and the appropriate publisher.

REVIEWER
Promptness
If there is a reviewer who feels it is impossible to complete the manuscript review within the specified time, then the same thing must be communicated to the editor, so that it can be sent to other reviewers.

Confidentiality
Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and served as privileged information.

Standard of Objectivity
The review must be carried out objectively. There will be no personal criticism from the author. Reviewers must express their views clearly with supporting support.

Source recognition
Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the author. Any statements that have previously been reported as reported elsewhere must comply with the relevant citation. Reviewers should also call the Chief Editor's attention if there is any substantial or overlap between the manuscript being assessed and other papers being published of which they are personally aware.

Conflict of interest
Reviewers may not review manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest as a result of competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper.

AUTHOR
Reporting standards
The author of the original research report must present an accurate report of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. The underlying data must be presented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to allow others to copy the work. Statements that are deceptive or intentionally inaccurate are unethical and unacceptable behavior.

Data Access and Retention
Authors may be asked to provide raw data with respect to a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to it, if possible, and should under all circumstances be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism
Authors must ensure that they have written completely original work, and if the author has used the work and / or words of others this should be appropriately quoted or cited.

Various Publications
An author should not generally publish manuscripts depicting essentially the same research in more than one journal or major publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unethical and unacceptable publishing behavior.

Source recognition
Proper recognition of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that were influential in determining the nature of the work being reported.

Paper authorship
Writing should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, implementation or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. If there are other people who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be recognized or registered as contributors.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors must disclose in their text any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that could be interpreted to affect the results or interpretation of their text. All sources of financial support for the project must be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works
When an author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in his published work, it is the author's obligation to immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to revoke or correct the paper.

The Institute for Research and Community Service, University of Muhammadiyah Palembang does not allow plagiarism in any form. Plagiarism is considered a serious violation of scientific ethics by the entire scientific community. Incidents of plagiarism in the manuscript or published papers whether detected or reported, will be taken seriously. We continually support advice and welcome suggestions from our Editorial and Review Board to avoid publicity ethical malpractices.