Authorship Criteria

JPSDM: Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat strictly adheres to international standards regarding authorship and contributorship to ensure transparency, accountability, and publication ethics.

Criteria for Authorship

To qualify as an author of a manuscript submitted to JPSDM: Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat, an individual must meet all four of the following criteria:

Substantial Contribution: Made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the community service program, or to the implementation, acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data and outcomes related to community engagement activities.
Writing and Critical Review: Drafted the manuscript or critically revised it for important intellectual content.
Final Approval: Approved the final version of the manuscript to be published.
Accountability: Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

All individuals who meet these four criteria must be listed as authors. Anyone who meets the first criterion must have the opportunity to participate in drafting or critically revising the manuscript and approving its final version.

Contributions That Do Not Qualify for Authorship

Contributions that do not independently qualify an individual for authorship include, but are not limited to:

Securing research funding, community service grants, or institutional sponsorship.
Providing general administrative, institutional, or field activity supervision.
Assisting with technical implementation, routine data collection, documentation, formatting, language editing, or proofreading without substantial intellectual contribution to the manuscript.

Individuals whose contributions do not meet all four criteria should not be listed as authors. Instead, they should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript, with their specific contributions clearly described.

Author Responsibilities

All authors share collective responsibility for the integrity of the published work. Each author should understand their own contribution, be able to identify which co-authors were responsible for other specific parts of the work, and have confidence in the integrity of the contributions made by their co-authors.

The authors are collectively responsible for determining authorship and agreeing on the order in which their names appear on the manuscript prior to submission.

Changes in Authorship

Any request to add, remove, or rearrange author names after submission must include:

A clear written explanation for the requested change submitted to the journal's editorial office.
Written confirmation from all listed authors, including the individual being added or removed, indicating their agreement with the proposed change.

The journal reserves the right to review authorship changes in accordance with its publication ethics policies.

Corresponding Author

The corresponding author acts as the primary contact between the authors and JPSDM: Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat throughout the submission, peer review, and publication process.

Responsibilities of the corresponding author include:

Ensuring that all submission requirements, ethical declarations, and disclosures are complete and accurate.
Verifying that all listed authors meet the authorship criteria and have approved the final manuscript.
Addressing editorial and peer-review inquiries promptly.
Remaining available after publication to respond to scientific inquiries, reader feedback, and requests for supporting data or clarification.