PUBLICATION ETHICS

This statement explains the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing articles in Zona Kebidanan Journal, including authors, editors, peer reviewers, and publishers. This statement is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Journal Publication Ethics Guidelines
Continuous publication of articles in Zona Kebidanan Journal. This is a reflection of the quality of the author's work and the institutions that support the writing. This article also adopts peer review to support and realize scientific method writing. Therefore, it is important to agree on expected standards of ethical behavior for all parties involved in publishing: authors, journal editors, peer reviewers, publishers, and the public. LPPM-UNIVERSITY OF BATAM, as the publisher of this journal, takes its duties of safeguarding all stages of publication very seriously, and LPPM-UNIVERSITY OF BATAM is aware of our ethics and responsibilities. LPPM-UNIVERSITY OF BATAM is committed to ensuring that advertising, reprints, or other commercial revenues have no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the Editorial Board will assist with communications with other journals and/or publishers if this is useful and necessary.

Publication Decisions
The editor of Zona Kebidanan Journal, published by LPPM-UNIVERSITY OF BATAM, is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. Validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers should always drive such decisions. Editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and limited by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Justice
An editor at all times evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality
Editors and any editorial staff may not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, expert reviewers, other editorialists, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript may not be used in the editor's own research without the written consent of the author.