Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Regula Fidei telah terakreditasi peringkat 4 sebagai jurnal ilmiah nasional oleh Direktorat Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan Kementerian Riset, Teknologi, dan Pendidikan Tinggi: 158/E/KPT/2021 periode September 2018 sampai Maret 2023

Fokus Jurnal Regula Fidei adalah terkait dengan bidang Teologi dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen, antara lain:
1. Pendidikan Agama Kristen.
2. Manajemen Pendidikan Kristen.
3. Teknologi Pendidikan Kristen.
4. Isu Religiositas.
5. Teologi PAK

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

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

AUTHORS of REGULA FIDEI must adhere to the following guidelines:
• The authorship should balance intellectual contributions to the conception, design, analysis, and writing of the manuscript against other work in relation to the research. If there is no task that can reasonably be attributed to a particular individual, this individual should not be credited with the authorship.
• Authors must declare that the work reported is their own and that they are the copyright owner (or else have obtained the copyright owner's permission).
• Authors must declare that the submitted article and its essential content have not previously been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. • The author should avoid disputes over attribution of academic credit. Therefore, it is helpful to decide early on who will be credited as corresponding author, contributors, and who will be acknowledged.
• Authors must take public responsibility for the content of their paper. It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently.
• Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated.
• Authors must acknowledge the data sources of their research and should acknowledge financial support sources to the research if any.
• All errors discovered in the manuscript after submission must be quickly communicated to the Editor.
• Authors should state that the papers they submit have been approved by the relevant research ethics committee or institutional review board. If human participants were involved, manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the participants had signed informed consent forms.
• Authors should submit a short description of all contributions to their manuscript. Each author's contribution should be described in brief. Authors of research papers should state whether they had complete access to the study data that support the publication. Contributors who do not qualify as authors should also be listed and their particular contribution described. This information should appear as an acknowledgment.
• Authors should include information about their research fundings in their manuscripts.
• Authors have a right to appeal editorial decisions.


REVIEWERS of REGULA FIDEI must adhere to the following guidelines:
• All manuscripts are reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, denomination of church, citizenry nor political values of the authors.
• Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the editor. • All information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential.
• Any information that may be the reason for a publication rejection must be communicated to the Editor.
• The duty of confidentiality in the assessment of a manuscript must be maintained by expert reviewers, and this extends to reviewers’ colleagues who may be asked (with the editor’s permission) to give opinions on specific sections.
• Submitted manuscript should not be retained or copied.
• Reviewers and editors should not make any use of the data, arguments, or interpretations unless they have the authors’ permission.
• Reviewers should provide speedy, accurate, courteous, unbiased, and justifiable reports.
• Reviewers assigned to an article will comment on the following items:
 The importance, originality, and timeliness of the study
 Strengths and weaknesses of the study design and data analysis for research papers or the analysis and commentary for essays
 Writing, organization, and presentation
 The degree to which the findings justify the conclusion
 The relevance, usefulness, and comprehensibility of the article for the Journal’s target audience.


Duties of REGULA FIDEI Editors :
• Editors’ decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based only on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the study’s relevance to the remit of the journal.
• Editors must treat all submitted papers as confidential. • Editors should inform peer reviewers about this Misconduct.
• Editors should encourage peer-reviewers to consider ethical issues raised by the research they are reviewing. • Editors should request additional information from authors if they feel this is required.
• Editors should exercise sensitivity when publishing images of objects that might have cultural significance or cause offense.
• Editors should inform readers if ethical breaches have occurred.
• Editors should encourage peer-reviewers to decline peer-review request if they identify a conflict of interest with the manuscript.
• Editors may assign peer-reviewers suggested by authors but should not consider suggestions made by authors as binding.
• Editors should mediate all exchanges between authors and peer reviewers during the peer-review process (i.e. prior to publication). If agreement cannot be reached, editors should consider inviting comments from additional peer reviewer(s) if the editor feels that this would be helpful.
• Decisions by editors about whether or not to publish submitted manuscripts must not be influenced by pressure from the editor's employer, the journal owner, or the publisher.
• Editors should publish corrections for discovered errors that could affect the interpretation of data or information presented in a manuscript.
• Editors should expect allegations of theft or plagiarism to be substantiated and should treat allegations of theft or plagiarism seriously.
• Editors should keep peer-reviewers’ identities from authors. If peer-reviewers’ identities are revealed, editors should discourage authors from contacting peer-reviewers directly, especially when misconduct is suspected.
• Editors should reserve the right to reject manuscripts if there is a doubt whether appropriate procedures have been followed. If a paper has been submitted from a country where there is no ethics committee or institutional review board, editors should use their own experience to judge whether or not the paper can be published. If the decision is made to publish a paper under this circumstance, a short statement should be included to explain this situation.
• Editors should ensure timely peer-review and publication for manuscripts they receive, especially where findings may have important implications.
• The Editorial Board is responsible for making publication decisions based on the reviewer’s evaluation, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restraint acting against plagiarism, libel, and copyright infringement. (This Publication Ethics adopted from Committee on Publications Ethics-COPE)

 

Author Fee

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)

Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR)

Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR)

 

Plagiarism Check

To protect and ensure that plagiarism does not occur, every submitted manuscript will be checked for similarities (similarity check) using the iThenticate software from Turnitin. There is no allowable tolerance for similarity, because the editor will judge a manuscript as acceptable or not related to plagiarism.

 

Author Guidelines

  1. The author has never published his article or is currently submitting his article in another journal.
  2. Manuscripts are written on A4 sized paper (210 mm x 297 mm) with a top margin of 3 cm, bottom margin of 3 cm, left and right margins of 2 cm each. The form of the manuscript is in the form of 2 columns with a distance between columns of 1 cm. The length of the manuscript should be around 5 thousand to 12 thousand words, including footnotes and attachments. Spacing between paragraphs is a single space.
  3. Manuscripts are written in Indonesian or English. Manuscripts in Indonesian must comply with the applicable EYD, and if they are in English, they should meet standard English grammar standards.
  4. All manuscripts must be typed neatly with the font Times New Romans 12 pt with 1''.
  5. Manuscripts are written using the latest The Chicago Manual of Style (Turabian) citation style.
  6. The title of the manuscript must reflect the essence of the contents of an article. The title should highlight the phenomenon (object) being studied, not the method and not the activity (project). The title is informative, specific, effective and a maximum of 15 words.
  7. Abstracts are written in Indonesian and English, each of which is accompanied by key words. Key words can be single words or compound words (consisting of more than one word). Writing keywords between three to five (3-5) words and can follow the following classification: theoretical methods, experimental methods, phenomena, research objects and their applications.
  8. The contents of the manuscript are written not using the term chapter, the author can follow the following conditions:
    INTRODUCTION (Bold, center, 12 pt Times New Romans)
    Subtitle-1 (Bold, center, 12 pt Times New Romans)
    Subtitles-2 (Regular, center, 12 pt Times New Romans)
    Subtitle-3 (Regular, center, 12 pt Times New Romans)
    CONCLUSION (Bold, center, 12 pt Times New Romans)
    (blank 3 single space, 12 pt)
  9. Writing bibliography in accordance with the order of citation in the manuscript. Number of referenced sources, with 80% being primary reference sources and 80% being recent publications. Primary reference sources are reference sources that directly refer to certain scientific fields, according to research topics and have been tested. Primary reference sources can be in the form of: writings in scientific papers in accredited international and national journals, research results in dissertations, theses, and theses. Books (textbooks), included in secondary reference sources.
  10. Capitalization:
    Capitalization is used only for the names of God (Adonai, Trinity, Logos, Son of Man); name of book (Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Talmud, Apocrypha, Pentateuch, Gospels); publicly known names or titles and persons (John the Baptist, the Savior, the evil one, the Antichrist); names of key events and doctrines (Creation, Fall, Crucifixion, Redemption, Resurrection, Reformation). Capital letters are not used for adjectives derived from the names mentioned above (talmudic, christological, trinitarian, Christian, Christian). Note the capitalization of derivative adjectives that also function as names: Christology, Christian, Baptist.
  11. We recommend that the manuscript be adapted to the template, the author can download and use the template format that has been provided.
  12. References and footnote citations are mandatory using the Mendeley reference app.
  13. If any, thanks are due to official institutions or individuals who have provided funding or have made other contributions to this research.
  14. The author does not need to change the "header and footer" in the template format because the editor will adjust the information in that section.
  15. The maximum turnitin check result is 25%.

The submitted manuscript will be selected by the Editorial Board with full authority to correct, return, or reject the submitted writing if deemed necessary.