About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Seni Makalangan is essential reading for those involved in the study and practice of dance. The journal covers dance worldwide both from a historical and contemporary perspective, engaging with current debates on dance and across cognate disciplines with dance at the center of inquiry. The spectrum of topics includes Sociology of Dance, Anthropology of Dance, World Dance Culture, Digital Dance Studies, Archaeology of Dance, Intercultural Studies of Dance, Ethnography of Dance, Dance and Multicultural Education, Dance Criticism, Dancer Profile and Thought, Artistic Review of the Dance Creation Process.

These topics are addressed in full-length academic articles, critical statements on current issues, developmental practice, and reviews of books. The journal aims to engage with current debates on dance and across cognate disciplines with dance at the center of inquiry. The journal presents an innovative platform for researchers, students, practitioners, and dance educators. All articles are subject to initial Editor screening and then a rigorous double-blind peer-review process before publication.

Peer Review Process

An editor first reviews the submitted manuscript related to suitable for focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw and similarity score by using Turnitin.

An editor will send the manuscript to at least two anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation with a double-blind peer-review process. Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses. The Editor shall inform you of the review results as soon as possible, hopefully in 30 to 60 days.

The suggested decision will be evaluated in an editorial board meeting. Afterward, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author. The journal is carried out by using Mendeley as a Tool Reference Manager. The language used in this journal is Indonesian and/or English.

Publication Frequency

This journal is published two times a year (June, December)

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Section A: Publication and authorship

All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular article.
The review process is a blind peer review.
The factors that are taken into account in the review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.
The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised bid will be accepted.
Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
No research can be included in more than one publication.

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
Authors must participate in the peer-review process.
Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Reviewers should not review 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.

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities

Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
Editors should have a clear picture of the research’s funding sources.
Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the publication’s scope.
Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably sure.
Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions; they should have proof of misconduct.
Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and board members.

Retraction

The papers published in the Jurnal Seni Makalangan will be considered to retract in the publication if :

They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error)
The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission, or justification (i.e., cases of redundant publication)
it constitutes plagiarism
it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Papers submitted to the Jurnal Seni Makalangan will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin plagiarism detection tools. Jurnal Seni Makalangan will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to the Jurnal Seni Makalangan must have a similarity level of less than 30% (Exclude Bibliography).

Plagiarism is the exposure of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. To accurately judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work that is suspected of plagiarism.
Substantial copying implies an author reproduces a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

Conflicts-of-Interest Statement

Authors

According to the general publication policy of the Jurnal Seni Makalangan, only the researchers who contributed to the work in a real sense should be considered as an author. Authors should be responsible to disclose all the personal and financial relationships which might bias their work. Financial relationships such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony can be classified as the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal. To clarify the conflicts-of-interest issue, authors must submit a letter to the editorial office accompanying the submitted manuscript and explicitly state if any potential conflicts exist or not.

Peer Reviewers

Peer Reviewers should be responsible to decline the review process if any substantial conflicts of interest exist. In case of any doubt, they should consult to the Editor to make a decision regarding the review process. Researchers from authors' institutions should not be considered as peer reviewers to prevent any conflicts of interest.

Editors

Editors should be responsible to manage the review process and have the right of declining any submission in case of any conflict of interest. They should not have any direct personal and/or financial conflicts with their assigned manuscripts. They should not be assigned to manuscripts if they are in the author list of them.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

Withdrawal Policy

The author is not allowed to withdraw the submitted manuscripts because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing the submitted manuscripts, and works invested by the Publisher. However, the authors could suggest the withdrawal if there is no updated progress review information after six months from our side.

Withdrawal Penalty

Manuscript in Review Process. If the author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, the author will be punished with paying 300,000.00 (IDR) per paper as a withdrawal penalty to the Publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal.
Accepted Manuscript for publication. The withdrawal of the accepted manuscript for publication will be punished by paying 500,000.00 (IDR) per manuscript. Withdrawal of the manuscript is only allowed after the penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher. If the author(s) does not agree with the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

Email for requesting withdrawal: jurnal.makalangan@isbi.ac.id

Sources of Support

Sejak kedatangan Direktur Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Pada Tahun 2010. Beliau menyarankan dan mengingatkan bahwa sudah harus dimulai ditingkat jenjang Sarjana (S1) Memiliki Jurnal karena seluruh jenjang pendidikan baik S1, S2 dan S3 harus melahirkan jurnal. Merujuk pada saran tersebut jurusan Seni Tari Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (STSI) Bandung merancang didirikannya jurnal seni, yang pada akhirnya melalui rapat jurusan menetapkan nama jurnal tersebut dengan nama Jurnal Seni Makalangan. Setahun Kemudian tepatnya pada tahun 2014 Jurnal seni Makalangan menerbitkan Jurnal Volume 1 yang terdiri ari 2 (dua) Edisi yaitu Edisi Juni dan Edisi Desember, sampai sekarang menerbitkan 6 (enam) Volume serta memiliki e-ISSN dengan sistem berbasis Online OJS.