Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

BIOEDUIN is a Biology education journal published by the Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, is accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia Number 36 / E / KPT / 2019,. in collaboration with the Indonesian Science Educators Association. This journal has been published in print version (p-ISSN: 2338-7173) since 2013 and online version (e-ISSN: 2615-0417) since 2018. Bioeduin's focus on the study of biology education includes biology curriculum, evaluation methods, and learning. media. This journal is published twice together in February and August. All articles will be reviewed (double-blind) by experts before being accepted for publication. Each author is responsible for the content of the published articles.

BIOEDUIN Journal is focused on the results of studies in the field of Bioogy education. This journal contains original research articles, including:

  • Teaching & Learning in Biology Education
  • Learning Materials in Biology Education
  • Learning Media / Multimedia in Biology Education
  • Evaluation & Assessment in Biology Education
  • Higher Level Thinking Skills in Biology Education
  • Science Education
  • Integrating Islamic Values with Biology Education

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Publication Frequency

Jurnal publish twice a year on February and August

 

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.

 

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

Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time evaluates 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.

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.

Acknowledgment 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. 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.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider 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.

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. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

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 that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

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 behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment 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.

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. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts 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 inaccuracy 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.

Author Ethics

1) Reporting; the author must provide information about the process and the results of his research to the editorial in an honest, clear, and comprehensive, and still keep the research data well and safely.

2) Originality and plagiarism; the author must ensure that the manuscript that has been submitted to the editor is the original, written by himself, sourced from his own ideas and ideas, rather than plagiarizing the writings or ideas of others. Authors are strictly prohibited from passing the name of the reference source cited to someone else's name.

3) Repetition of delivery; the author must inform that the manuscript submitted/submitted to the editor is a script that has never been submitted/submitted to other journal publishers/publications. If there is any redundancy in the submission of a manuscript to another publisher, then the editor will reject the submitted manuscript.

4) Author status; the author should inform the editor that the author has the competence or qualifications in a particular field of expertise in accordance with the field of publication, namely librarianship. The author who submits the manuscript to the editor is the first author (co-author) so that if found the problem in the process of publishing the script can be completed.

5) Error writing script; the author should immediately inform the editor if found errors in the script writing, both the results of reviews and edits. Writing errors include the writing of

 

Plagiarism Check

Plagiarism screening will be conducted by OJS Editorial Board using Turnitin with maximum limit of similarity 25 %. For CrossCheck plagiarism screening service Klik This

 

Peer Review Process

Some policies in the review of Jurnal Bioeduin:

  1. The reviewers will review the submitted article that follow the guidelines and template of the journal provided.
  2. The review process in this journal employs a double-blind peer-review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa.
  3. In the review process, the article will be reviewed by at least two reviewers to ensure the quality of the article.
  4. In the review process, the reviewers ensure the quality of the articles of its title, abstract, discussion and conclusion. Besides, the reviewers also address the novelty and its contribution to the scientific discussion and verify the plagiarism and ethics of publication.
  5. The reviewer also provide feedback on whether the article is accepted, rejected or need minor or major revision.