Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Physical Education for Secondary Schools (JPESS), peer-reviewed journal (print and online) published by Physical Education Health and Recreation Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, which was founded in 2021. It publishes articles of a high standard on various aspects of the Physical Education covering a number of disciplinary bases, including

  • Instructional models;
  • Teaching approach in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Teaching style in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • The teaching method in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Content and curriculum knowledge in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Children and context knowledge in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Physical Fitness Students in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • other disciplinary perspectives on Physical Education for Secondary Schools.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All papers are fully peer-reviewed.We only publish articles that have been reviewed and approved by highly qualified researchers with expertise in a field appropriate (at least two reviewers per article). We used blind peer-reviewing process. Detailed information about the flow for the manuscript submission (author) to the acceptance by editor is shown in the following figure.

 

In short, the steps are:

  1. Manuscript Submission (by author) (route 1)
  2. Manuscript Check and Selection (by manager and editors) (route 2). Editors have a right to directly accept, reject, or review. Prior to further processing steps, plagiarism check using turtitin is applied for each manuscript.
  3. Manuscript Reviewing Process (by reviewers) (route 3-4)
  4. Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection (by editor to author based on reviewers comments) (route 5)
  5. Paper Revision (by author)
  6. Revision Submission based on Reviewer Suggestion (by author) with similar flow to point number 1. (route 1)
  7. If reviewer seems to be satisfied with revision, notification for acceptance (by editor). (route 6)
  8. Galley proof and publishing process  (route 7 and 8)

The steps point number 1 to 5 is considered as 1 round of peer-reviewing process (see grey area in the figure). And, our reviewing process at least goes through 2 round of reviewing process.

 

The journal editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by the peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common decisions:

(i)   accept without any changes (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper in its original form

(ii)  accept with minor revisions (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections

(iii) accept after major revisions (conditional acceptance ): the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors

(iv)revise and resubmit (conditional rejection): the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes

reject the paper (outright rejection): the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make

 

Publication Frequency

This journal will be published two times a year on the following months: April and October. Every issue consist of about 10 articles and therefore every volume has about 20 articles/reviews.

 

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.

The published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements

Journal of Physical Education for Secondary Schools (JPESS) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. To that extent, it clarifies the ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the article publication of JPESS including the authors, the chief editors, the Editorial Boards, the peer-reviewers­­­­­ and the publishers (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

The Editorial Board is responsible, among the other, for deciding which of the research papers/articles submitted to the journal should be published and preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior is unacceptable and the JPESS does not tolerate plagiarism in any form.

 

1. Editors' Responsibilities

Publication Decisions: Editors should be accountable for everything published in their journals and must strive to meet the needs of readers and authors. Editors’decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based on the editorial board’s reviews and paper’s importance.

Review of Manuscripts: The editor must ensures that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor, who may make use of appropriate means, to examine the originality of the contents of the manuscript and ensure the quality of the material they publish, recognizing that journals and sections within journals will have different aims and standards.

Fair Review: Editors should strive to ensure that peer review at their journal is fair, unbiased and timely.The editor ensures that each manuscript received is evaluated on its intellectual content without regard to authors’ sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc.

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.The editor must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors should require reviewers to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission

 

2. Author’s Responsibilities

Reporting Standards: Authors should precisely present their original research, as well as objectively discuss its significance. Manuscripts are to be edited in accordance to the author guidelines.

Originality: Authors must certify that their work is entirely unique and original.

Redundancy: Authors should not concurrently submit papers describing essentially the same research. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources: Author(s) should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have influenced their research.

Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited only to those who have made a significant contribution to conceiving, designing, executing and/or interpreting the submitted study. All those who have significantly contributed to the study should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author should also ensure that all the authors and co-authors have seen and approved the final submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion as co-authors.

Data Access and Retention: Authors should retain raw data related to their submitted paper, and must provide it for editorial review, upon request of the editor.

 Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her submitted manuscript, the author must immediately notify the editor.

 

3. Reviewers Responsibilities

Confidentiality: Manuscript reviewers, the editor, and the editorial staff must not disclose any information regarding submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts are to be treated as privileged information. Editors should provide guidance to reviewers on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted material in confidence.

Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research.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.

Standards of Objectivity: Review of submitted manuscripts will be conducted objectively. The reviewers shall express their views clearly, with supporting arguments. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.

Promptness: If a reviewer believes it is not possible for him/her to review the research reported in a manuscript within the designated guidelines, or within stipulated time, he/she should notify the editor, so that the accurate and timely review can be ensured.

Conflict of Interest: All reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the funding bodies.

 

4. Change or Modification of Published Paper

Withdrawal: Papers published will be withdrawn if author(s) noticed significant errors. Before accepting withdrawal request, editorial board and Editor-in-chief should talk with author(s) sufficiently. If the paper was agreed to be withdrawn, the following will be implemented:

The paper in journal database will be removed.

The link in online publication site will be removed.

Next phrase or similar phrase stating the reason will be shown below the paper title in the Table of Contents and journal volume page: (This paper was withdrawn because of some technical errors).

Replacement: Papers published can be replaced if author(s) send an updated paper. Before accepting replacement request, editorial board and Editor-in-chief should talk with author(s) sufficiently, and at least reviewers should check the advances. If the paper was agreed to be replaced, the following will be implemented:

The paper in journal database will be replaced.

The link in online publication site will be replaced.

Next phrase or similar phrase stating the reason will be shown below the paper title in the Table of Contents and journal volume page: (This paper was replaced because author(s) sent updated version. Contact editor if you want to check old version).

Old version should be kept separately, and if someone wants to check old version, editor can send the PDF to him/her.

Note that the replacement is acceptable only one time, and only for technical advances.

Removal: Papers published will be removed if reviewers, readers, librarians, publishers or other subjects noticed significant errors or plagiarism. Before removing a paper, editorial board and Editor- in-chief should talk with authors sufficiently, and should provide enough time to have authors’ explanation. If the paper was agreed to be removed, the following will be implemented:

The paper in journal database will be removed.

The link in online publication site will be removed.

Next phrase or similar phrase stating the reason will be shown below the paper title in theTable of Contents and journal volume page: (This paper was removed because of plagiarism).

 

5. Penalties

Double Submission: If double submission was found or noticed from other sources, editorial board should check the status. If the double submission was confirmed as intentional thing,

Review process will be terminated.

The reason should be sent to reviewers, editorial board and authors.

All authors’ name will be marked as black list, and these authors cannot submit any paper to JPESS for five years.

Double Publication: If double publication was found or noticed from other sources, editorial board should check the status. If the double publication was confirmed as intentional thing,

This will be reported to editorial board and author(s).

This will be sent to publisher published same (or very similar) paper.

Paper will be removed according to the “Removal” part in Section 4.

All authors’ name will be marked as black list, and these authors cannot submit any paper to JPESS for five years.

 

Copyright Transfer Agreement

Once the review processes are completed and revised version of the manuscript has been sent by the author(s), the editor will send CTA (Copyright Transfer Agreement) to the author(s) before the publication of the manuscript.

What follow is the template of the CTA

JPESS’S COPYRIGHT TRANSFER AGREEMENT

The copyright to this article is transferred to the JPESS Journal effective if and when the article is accepted for publication. The author warrants that his/her contribution is original and that he/she has full power to make this grant. The author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature.

An author may self-archive an author-created version of his/her article on his/her own website and his/her institution’s repository, including his/her final version; however, he/she may not use the publisher’s PDF version which is posted on http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/jpess/index

Furthermore, the author may only post his/her version provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on JPESS’s  website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: “The original publication is available at http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/jpess/index”

After submission of this agreement signed by the corresponding author, changes of authorship or in the order of the authors listed will not be accepted by JPESS.

Journal                         : Journal of Physical Education For Secondary Schools (JPESS)

Title of article                : _________________________________________________________

                                   _________________________________________________________

 

Author(s)                       : _________________________________________________________

Author’s signature         : _________________________________________________________

Date                             : _________________________________________________________

Please submit the completed agreement either to:

e-mail                           : jpessofficial@upi.edu (as a file attachment)

 

Fees

Publication fees shall be implemented to all accepted papers, but there is NO charge for the article submission. The article processing Free per article.

This fee includes:
DOI registration for each paper
Checking the article similarity by Turnitin
Printed journal article

For more details, please email to JPESS@upi.edu

 

Plagiarism Screening

Before going to review process, all manuscripts will be checked that they are free from plagiarism practice (less than 20% similarities). If there an indication of plagiarism (higher than 20% similarities), the manuscript will instantly be rejected.

 

Aims

AIMS :

Journal of Physical Education for Secondary Schools (JPESS), peer-reviewed journal (print and online) published by Physical Education Health and Recreation Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, which was founded in 2021. It publishes articles of a high standard on various aspects of the Physical Education covering a number of disciplinary bases, including

  • Instructional models;
  • Teaching approach in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Teaching style in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • The teaching method in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Content and curriculum knowledge in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Children and context knowledge in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • Physical Fitness Students in Physical Education for Secondary Schools;
  • other disciplinary perspectives on Physical Education for Secondary Schools.