Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

COJ (Coastal and Ocean Journal) is a national scientific journal with the aim of disseminating information about scientific developments in coastal and ocean management in Indonesia. The scientific, management, innovation and technological developments in the coastal and marine fields in Indonesia include: Fisheries Management, Marine Product Processing, Marine Biotechnology, Aquatic Resource Management, Coastal and Marine Resource Management, Mapping of Coastal and Marine Areas, Law and Socio-Economics of Coastal and Marine Areas, Coastal and Marine Social and Ecological Systems, Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services, Coastal and Marine Resource Conservation and Coastal and Marine Environmental Pollution Control.

Focus and Scope:

• Fisheries Management
• Seafood Processing
• Marine Biotechnology
• Aquatic Resource Management
• Coastal and Marine Resource Management
• Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning
• Coastal Society and Culture
• Policy and Economics of Coastal and Marine Areas
• Coastal and Marine Social and Ecological Systems
• Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services
• Conservation of Coastal and Marine Resources
• Coastal and Marine Environmental Pollution Control
• Blue Economy and Blue Carbon
• Marine and Aquatic Invasive Species

Peer Review Process

Coastal and Ocean Journal implements double-blind peer review process. Editor in Chief will assign the manuscript to a corresponding section editor for further handling. The section editor will request at least two reviewers to review the manuscript. Based on the comments from the reviewers, Editor in Chief will make the decision on the manuscript.

Publication Frequency

Starting 2017, Coastal and Ocean Journal published two times a year, June and 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

COJ publication ethics and publication malpractice statement are composed using the Publishing ethics resource kit and in compliance with Elsevier recommendations.

Ethical guidelines for journal publication

Coastal and Ocean Journal is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles to develop a coherent and respected network of biosciences knowledge. It is important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society.

Center of Coastal and Marine Resources Studies, IPB University as publisher of Coastal and Ocean Journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and recognizes our ethical and other responsibilities.

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.

Data access and retention

Authors may be 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, 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, this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from passing off another paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another paper without attribution, to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

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 behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of sources

Proper acknowledgment 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. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit written permission from the source.

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. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on 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. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other 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 inaccurcy 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.

Duties of the Editorial Board

Publication decisions

The editor of a peer-reviewed 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.

Fair play

An editor should 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. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Involvement and cooperation in investigations

An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.

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.

Confidentiality

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

Standards of objectivity

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

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.

Disclosure and conflict of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Editor in Chief

Guidelines for Filing a Competing Interest Statement

Conflict of interest can occur when there is a divergence between an individual’s private interests and his/her responsibility to scientific and publishing activities such that a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by considerations of his or her competing interests.

COJ does not require a formal conflict of interest statement for every article, but expects authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose relevant competing interests where appropriate. If COJ later becomes aware of an undisclosed conflict, the journal may publish a correction or note to readers.