Editorial Policy

A. Overview
AMJ is committed to maintaining a fair, transparent, independent, and ethical editorial process. Editorial decisions are made based on the journal’s aims and scope, scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and relevance to the field. AMJ follows the guidelines and core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in managing editorial decisions, peer review, appeals, complaints, corrections, retractions, and publication misconduct. All editorial decisions are made independently and are guided by the journal’s established policies and principles.

B. Authorship Principles
This guideline outlines the authorship principles and practices. It is the collective responsibility of all the individuals who have conducted the work to determine who should be listed as authors and the order in which authors should be listed. The journal editor will not decide on the order of the authorship and cannot arbitrate authorship disputes. Where unresolved disputes between the authors arise, the institution(s) where the work was performed will be asked to investigate. Listing authors’ names on an article is an important mechanism to give credit to those who have significantly contributed to the work. It also ensures transparency for those who are responsible for the integrity of the content.
Changes to Authorship. Authors should carefully confirm the complete author list, author order, corresponding author, affiliations, and contact details before submitting a manuscript to AMJ.

  • Requests to add or remove authors during the revision stage are generally discouraged. However, in exceptional cases, the Editor-in-Chief may consider such requests if a valid explanation is provided and written approval is obtained from all authors. The final decision regarding authorship changes during revision rests with the Editor-in-Chief.
  • Changes to authorship are generally not permitted after a manuscript has been accepted for publication. This includes the addition or removal of authors, changes to the corresponding author, or changes in the sequence of authors.

C. Affiliation
The author and co-authors must list all relevant affiliations to attribute where the research or scholarly work was approved and/or supported and/or conducted.

  • For non-research articles like review articles, perspectives, or letters, the author should write the institution where they currently work or study.
  • If the authors moved to a different institution before the article was published, you should list the affiliation where the work was conducted and include a note stating your current affiliation.

If authors do not have a current relevant institutional affiliation, you should state your independent status

D. Disclosure and Declarations
AMJ is committed to maintaining a fair, transparent, independent, and ethical editorial process. Editorial decisions are made based on the journal’s aims and scope, scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and relevance to the field. AMJ follows the guidelines and core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in managing editorial decisions, peer review, appeals, complaints, corrections, retractions, and publication misconduct. All editorial decisions are made independently and are guided by the journal’s established policies and principles.
Competing Interest. A competing interest may arise when authors, their institutions, employers, sponsors, family members, or close associates have financial, commercial, legal, professional, academic, or personal relationships that could influence, or appear to influence, the conduct of the research, interpretation of the results, editorial process, or publication of the manuscript. Competing interests may be financial or non-financial in nature. To ensure transparency, authors must declare all actual, potential, or perceived competing interests at the time of submission. Examples of competing interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Employment, consultancy, or advisory roles
  • Research funding, grants, or sponsorship
  • Honoraria, speaker fees, or travel support
  • Stock ownership, patents, or intellectual property rights
  • Institutional or professional relationships
  • Personal relationships or academic competition
  • Sponsorship of clinical trials or industry-supported research

If no competing interests exist, authors should include the following statement: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Failure to disclose relevant competing interests may be considered a breach of publication ethics and may result in editorial action in accordance with AMJ’s publication ethics policy.
Funding. AMJ requires authors to declare all sources of financial support that helped to cover the expenses associated with the research reported in their article. Examples of these funding sources include:

  • Internal funds, grants, and other types of financial support, such as those provided by the authors’ institutions, employers, or the organizations the authors are affiliated with.
  • External funds, such as those obtained from charities/non-profit organizations, private foundations, for-profit companies (e.g., technological or pharmaceutical companies), think tanks, political advocacy groups, trade associations, research associations, and government bodies.

These contributions would also need to be defined in more detail within the competing interest declaration. Examples of funding support authors are expected to declare include (but are not limited to):

  • Funding used to cover the expenses associated with performing the research (e.g., costs of equipment or reagents used in the study) and/or analysis of the results.
  • Funding used for outsourced services or external assistance with experiments, data collation, and/or data analysis is reported in the article. Our policies on authorship and acknowledging external support can be found below.

E. Data Transparency
Authors are responsible for ensuring that all data, materials, software applications, algorithms, and custom codes used in the study are accurate, accessible where appropriate, and sufficient to support the claims made in the manuscript. Authors should ensure that data and materials are managed, reported, and shared in accordance with accepted standards in their field. AMJ recognizes that data-sharing practices may vary across disciplines, study designs, and ethical or legal requirements. Therefore, authors should follow the journal’s data availability and sharing policy, as well as any applicable institutional, disciplinary, or regulatory requirements, when preparing and submitting their manuscript.

F. Data Availability and Deposition.
AMJ supports some open data initiatives and offers a suite of data-sharing policies.
Data Sharing Policies. The AMJ has policies on data sharing that state how data associated with your article should be shared. The guide to understanding our data sharing policies will help you get to grips with the details and the steps you’ll need to take as an author.
Data Repositories. A data repository is a storage space for researchers to deposit data sets associated with their research. And if you’re an author seeking to comply with a journal data sharing policy, you’ll need to identify a suitable repository for your data.
Community-endorsed Public Repositories. Where community-endorsed mandates exist for submission of data to public repositories, authors should submit the datasets to the appropriate repositories and provide the accession numbers (where available) in the paper.
Custom Computer Codes, Software Tools, and Mathematical Algorithms. To enable full assessment of submissions, you must make available on request to Editors and/or reviewers any custom computer codes, software tools, or algorithms which have been used to generate the results and conclusions that are reported in your manuscript.

G. Citation
Research and non-research articles must cite relevant, timely, and verified literature, including peer-reviewed sources where appropriate, to support all claims made in the manuscript. Authors must avoid excessive or inappropriate self-citation. Authors must also avoid citation arrangements among author groups that are intended to inappropriately cite each other’s work. Such practices may be considered citation manipulation and a form of publication misconduct. For non-research articles, such as reviews, opinions, commentaries, or perspectives, authors should ensure that the cited references are relevant and provide a fair, balanced, and accurate overview of the current state of research or scholarly work on the topic. References should not be unfairly biased toward a particular research group, organization, institution, or journal. Authors who are unsure whether a source is appropriate for citation may contact the journal editorial office for advice. Authors are encouraged to follow AMJ’s citation guidance, including instructions on which sources should be included in the reference list and which sources should only be cited in the main text of the manuscript.

H. Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions
Authors are responsible for ensuring that all data, materials, software applications, algorithms, and custom codes used in the study are accurate, accessible where appropriate, and sufficient to support the claims made in the manuscript. Authors should ensure that data and materials are managed, reported, and shared in accordance with accepted standards in their field. AMJ recognizes that data-sharing practices may vary across disciplines, study designs, and ethical or legal requirements. Therefore, authors should follow the journal’s data availability and sharing policy, as well as any applicable institutional, disciplinary, or regulatory requirements, when preparing and submitting their manuscript.

I. Editor Code of Conduct
Editors of AMJ are responsible for maintaining the quality, integrity, and credibility of the journal. Editorial decisions must be made fairly, independently, transparently, and in accordance with the journal’s aims, scope, editorial policies, and publication ethics standards.

J. Peer Review Policy
All manuscripts submitted to AMJ undergo an initial administrative and technical screening to ensure completeness, compliance with journal requirements, and suitability for the journal’s aims and scope. Manuscripts that pass this initial screening are assigned to an Editor, who will assess whether the submission is appropriate to proceed to peer review. Editors will consider the comments and recommendations provided by peer reviewers when making editorial decisions. However, the final decision rests with the Editor and is not determined solely by reviewer recommendations. A serious concern raised by one reviewer or by the Editor may be sufficient grounds for rejection if it affects the quality, validity, originality, ethical compliance, or suitability of the manuscript. Authors will receive the editorial decision together with relevant peer-review comments to support transparency and guide revision, where applicable.

K. Preprints, Preprint Servers, and Early Reporting of Scholarly Work
We support the need for authors to share early versions of their work before peer review publication. There are also several options for AMJ authors to share the final version of record of their published article.
Prepints and Preprint Servers. A preprint, also known as the author’s original manuscript (AOM), is your article before you have submitted it to a journal for peer review. Pre-print servers are online repositories that enable you to post this early version of your research paper online. If you upload your AOM to a non-commercial preprint server, you can subsequently submit the manuscript to AMJ. We do not consider posting on a preprint server to be a duplicate publication, and this will not jeopardize consideration for publication.

If you’ve posted your AOM to a preprint server, we ask that, upon acceptance, you acknowledge that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:
“This article has been accepted for publication in [Journal Title], published by Agromaritime Medicine Journal (AMJ)”

After publication, please update your preprint, adding the following text to encourage others to read and cite the final published version of your article (the “Version of Record”):
“This is an original manuscript of an article published by Agromaritime Medicine Journal (AMJ) on [date of publication], available online: https://doi.org/[Article DOI].

If you’ve published in AMJ, there are many ways you can share different versions of your article with colleagues and peers. This Rights and Permissions policy is applied in accordance with international open-access publishing practices and is subject to the applicable copyright laws and regulations of the Republic of Indonesia, including Law No. 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright.

L. Standards of Reporting
Research should be communicated in a way that supports verification and reproducibility, and as such, we encourage authors to provide comprehensive descriptions of their research rationale, protocol, methodology, and analysis. To aid authors in this, several study-design-specific consensus-based reporting guidelines have been developed, and we recommend you use these as guidance prior to submitting your manuscript. A comprehensive list of reporting guidelines for medicine and health research can be assessed via the EQUATOR network website or the MIBBI foundry portal.

M. The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Your Research
AI-assisted tools may be used to support language editing, literature organization, coding assistance, data processing support, or other research-related tasks, provided that their use is transparent, properly disclosed where relevant, and fully verified by the authors. AI tools must not replace the authors’ intellectual responsibility and must not be listed as authors. Authors remain fully accountable for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the manuscript.

N. Appeals and Complaints
The journal welcomes genuine appeals to editorial decisions. However, authors must provide strong evidence, new data, or relevant information in response to the editor’s decision and reviewers’ comments. Authors who wish to comment on aspects of the journal’s editorial management may contact the editorial office and select “Other” as the topic. Authors are encouraged to read the AMJ guidance on peer-review appeals and complaints before submitting an appeal or complaint.