The International Journal of Indonesian Aquaculture Society, Aquacultura Indonesiana is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. Therefore, it’s important to agree upon the ethical standards of publication for all parties involved in the act of publishing  which is the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher. The publising ethics for this journal is based on those by the Commitee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This journal follows the COPE guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct.  Code of Conduct guidelines are available at www.publicationethics.org

The essentials of Aquacultura Indonesiana publishing ethics for all parties involved in the act of publishing process are as follows:

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

• The submitted manuscripts must be original and free from any kind of plagiarism.(Important note: the journal use software to screen for plagiarism)
• The submitted manuscripts has not been previously published (partly or in full), nor are being considered in other journals. If the articles is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.
• Before submitting the manuscript, authors should check the instructions for Authors carefully. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill the above mention guidelines.
• Upon request, authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data in order to verify the validity of the results. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc. Sensitive information in the form of confidential or proprietary data is excluded.
• Authors whose names appear on the submission have contributed sufficiently to the scientific work and therefore share collective responsibility and accountability for the results. Change of authorship or in the order of authors are not accepted after acceptance of a manuscript.
• Highly recommended texts really have been well studied by co-authors before it is sent to the editor of the journal.
• No data have been fabricated or manipulated (including images) to support your conclussion.
• To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding source of funding and potential conflict of interest must be clearly acknowledged.
• Proper acknowledgements to other work reported (individual/company/institution) must be given. Permission must be obtained from any content used form other source.
• For the English-language script writers are encouraged to ask for help to someone who is proficient in the preparation of the manuscript in English and master the style and good grammar.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors

• The editor of a journal holds a vital position taking important editorial decission on all peer-reviewed submitted for publication.
• The editor should be accountable for everything published in the journal.
• The editor should assess manuscript for their scientific quality and intellectual content, free any sort of biased decissions based on discrimination of race, gender, geograpich origin or religian of author(s).
• The editor should evaluated manuscript objectively based on their writing and English qualities, academic merit, free of any commercial of self interest.
• The editor should not disclose any information on submitted manuscript before publication of the manuscript.
• The editor should make decissions on which articles to publish based on quality and suitability for the journal without interference from the journal owner/publisher.
• Editor’s decissions to accept or reject a paper for publication should based on the paper’s importance, originally and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the remit of the journal.
• The editor should publish guidance to author on everything that is expected of them.
• The editor reserve the right to reject manuscrips that do not comply with above mentioned guidelines.
• The editor should ensuring that all published report and reviews of research have been reviewed by suitably qualified reviewers.
• The editor should strive to ensure that peer review at their journal is fair, unbiased and timely.
• The editor should provide guidance to reviewers on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted material in confidence.
• The editor should require reviewers to disclose any potential competing interest before agreeing to review a submission.

Ethical Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers

• Providing a detailed, constructive, and unbiased evaluation in a timely manner on the scientific content of the work.
• Peer reviewers should providing an accurate estimate of the time they will need to do review if still asked to do so.
• Indicating whether the writing is relevant, consise & clear and evaluating the originality and scientific accuracy.
• Peer reviewers should only agree to review manuscript for which they have the subject expertise required to carry out a paper assesment and which they can asses in a timely manner.
• Peer reviewers should be objective and constructive in their reviews.
• Peer reviewers should not contact the authors direcly without the permission of the journal.
• Peer reviewers should try to accommodate request from journal to review revissions or resubmissions of manuscript they have reviewed.
• Mantaining the confidentiality of the complete review process.

Ethical Responsibilities of Publishers

• Publishers should define the relationship between publisher, editor and other parties in a contract.
• Publishers should respect privacy and protect intellectuall property and copyright.
• Publishers should publish content on a timely basis.