Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope
Lontar Physics Today is a peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of physics and physics education, launched in 2022.
Manuscripts should be written in Indonesian or Englsih and be submitted either in OJS or upgrisphysicstoday@upgris.ac.id.

Lontar Physics Today papers will be published three times a year on January, June, and November by Physics Education study program, Universitas PGRI Semarang, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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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.

 

Author Guidelines

Carefully read the submission guidelines as follows:

A. General Requirements

The minimum standard requirements of the Lontar Physics Today must be:

  1. Written in Bahasa Indonesia.
  2. The article must include title and abstract in English (100-250 words) and followed by the keywords (3-5 words).
  3. Use of a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting. The citation must be in the form of in-text and bibliography are based on Vancouver numerical system
  4. Make sure that your paper is prepared using the UPT paper template.

B. Structure of The Manuscript

The manuscript must be prepared and suggested present follow the structure:

  1. Title. The title of the paper should describe research aims, method/model, and objective, without Acronym or abbreviation.
  2. Abstract. The Abstract has 100 to 250 WORDS; No citation; State in the abstract a primary objective, research design, methodology, main outcomes, and results, and the conclusions.
  3. Section structure. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the section structure: Pendahuluan - Metode - Hasil dan Pembahasan – Simpulan - Ucapan Terima Kasih  - Daftar Pustaka
  4. Pendahuluan/Introduction. It is a mandatory to explain the objectives of the work, as well as an adequate background, a literature review, a summary of the results.
  5. Metode/Methods. It is a mandatory to explain sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced.
  6. Hasil dan Pembahasan/Results and Discussion.  The results of the research are presented in the form of graphs, tables, or descriptive. Analysis and interpretation of these results are needed before they are discussed. The discussion is focused on linking the data and the results of its analysis to the problems or objectives of the study and the broader theoretical context. 
  7. Simpulan/Conclusion. Conclusions summarise key results and may include any plans for relevant future work.
  8. Daftar Pustaka/References. References list relevant papers referred to in the other sections, citing original works, both historical and recent. The referenced literature is suggested to contain more than 80% of primary reference in the last 10 years. Primary references include articles in scientific journals, proceedings, dissertations, theses, monographs, books and others which are the result of direct research.
Please contact info upgrisphysicstoday@upgris.ac.id for the problems

 

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 300.000 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

 

Article Publication: 300.000 (IDR)

Article Publication: 300.000 (IDR) for corresponding author affiliated to institution outside Indonesia.

All articles entered and published on Lontar Physics Today are free of charge

 

 

 

Screening for Plagiarism

The manuscript that submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using https://www.turnitin.com/

 

Digital Archiving

This journal utilizes the Indonesian Scientific Journal Database (ISJD), and Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital) 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.

 

Creative Commons license

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethic
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Lontar Physics Today is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society. This statement is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas PGRI Semarang as publisher of Lontar Physics Today journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas PGRI Semarang and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.
The editor of the Lontar Physics Today 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. The editors 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 editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time 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.

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. 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 behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention
Authors are 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 (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), 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 that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Consurrent 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.

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.

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 Confilcts 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 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.