About the Journal

About The Journal

Samā Jiva Jnānam  or International Journal of Social Studies (IJOSS) is the official International journal of Dharma Duta Faculty State Hindu University I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar.

The journal publishes research papers in the fields of tourism, culture, law, and communication studies. The research that is published may take a theoretical or speculative model as well as statistical and mathematical. Contributions are welcome from all fields which have relevant and insightful comments to make about the social sciences.

The journal also includes a research note section which is devoted to supporting scholarly research that is in progress. The journal has a well-established book review section that reflects academic and intellectual diversity. While IJOSS is the publication of a regional association, it attracts submissions from a wide range of countries.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Samā Jiva Jnānam  or International Journal of Social Studies (IJOSS)  is a peer-reviewed international journal. This section clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal covering the author, chief editor, editorial board, and reviewers and publishers (UHN I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar).

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed IJOSS is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.  

UHN I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar as publisher of IJOSS takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, UHN I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa and and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards:

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention:

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism:

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication:

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources:

Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper:

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works:

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

Duties of Editors

Fair Play:

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality:

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Publication Decisions:

The editor board journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Review of Manuscripts:

The editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organise and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer reviewed. The editor should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions:

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness:

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Standards of Objectivity:

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Confidentiality:

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Acknowledgement of Sources:

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

The submission via e-journal system. 

The research paper must not be submitted to another journal system previously.

The language of the manuscript must be in English.

Style Format

Please send your paper in MS. Word format with A4 size.

Top Margin                 : 2.5 cm
Bottom Margin           : 2.5 cm
Left Margin                 : 4 cm
Right Margin               : 2.5 cm
Line Spacing               : 1.0
Paper Length               : About 10 – 12 pages

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

            Papers submitted to Samā Jiva Jnānam (International Journal of Social Studies) will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin detection tools. Papers leading to plagiarism will be immediately rejected. The percentage of Plagiarism that is allowed in this Journal is below 20%.

Payments for Publication

This journal charges the following author fees:

Article Submission      : 0.00 (IDR)

Article Publication      : 0.00 (IDR)

Corresponding author

            The author uploading the article to the system is regarded as the corresponding author. All the process is continued with this writer. It is the writer's responsibility to inform other writers of the article about the process.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright publishing of the article shall be assigned to International Journal of Social Studies (IJOSS).

About Styles

The following writing and referencing rules are to be taken into consideration.

The article needs to be not published elsewhere previously. The Journal is written in English. Thus, the articles need to be written in this language.

The title of the article must be written in capital letters, using font size 14 and bold. One line space must be left after the title. The name and surname of the author(s), their title, and the institution they work for and its web site must be written. The abstract must be brief, informative and self-explanatory and should be written in past tense. It must not exceed 500 words in length and should concisely summarize all important results of the paper without excessive methodical and experimental details. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. The number of the pages of the article must not exceed 12 pages, including abstract and reference list.

All the text must be written using single line spacing, including the reference list. The article should normally consist of the following parts: introduction, method, findings & discussion and conclusion.

In tables font size 10 must be used and vertical lines must not be drawn. When the contents of the table cannot fit into the table, font size 9 might be used. Number of the table and the title must be written above the table, especially for picture, the tittle must be written below it. The template of this journal can be downloaded on this link.