Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture (JITAA) is a double blind peer-reviewed publication devoted to disseminate all information contributing to the understanding and development of animal agriculture in the tropics by publication of original research papers. The journal covers all aspect relating to Animal Agriculture, including:
The research article submitted to this online journal will be double blind peer-reviewed at least 2 (two) reviewers. Editor in chief will make final decision according to the comments of reviewers. The accepted research articles will be available online following the journal peer-reviewing process. Screening plagiarism will be conducted using Turnitin.
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.
As it is written in Guide for Authors in C. Miscellaeneous:
c.1. The authors will be charged in the following expenses:
(1) Revising English when the Editorial Board regard it necessary.
(2) Typesetting and printing of the portion of the text exceeding the length prescribed in the Item B.1.e., that is manuscripts should not occupy more than 8 pages in length of journal sheet (14-18 pages of manuscript).
(3) Colour printing.
c.2. The current charge is IDR 2,000,000.00 or US$ 150.00 for an article decided to publish. Addition charge if an article more than 8 pages is IDR 50,000.00 per page. Colour printing charge is IDR 600,000.00 per page.
c.3. The Indonesian corresponding will receive 1 (one) copy of printed journal and 5 (five) copies of reprint.
Payment for Publication:
Name of Journal: Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture
In International money order payable to: Dela Ayu Lestari
Bank Name: BNI Bank
Account Number: 1684240935
Swift Code: BNINIDJAXXX
Manuscripts submitted to Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture will be screened for plagiarism and self-plagiarism using TURNITIN and Google-based search engines. Depending on the level of originality and similarities with other documents, the managing editor will decide on whether to immediately reject the manuscripts, contact authors for further clarifications, or to proceed to the peer-review process.
The Articles are scheduled for publication in March, June, September and December (6 to 9 articles per number)
This journal supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for the journal.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture is a peer-reviewed journal published by Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Diponegoro University. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture 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.
Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Diponegoro University. as publisher of Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture 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, Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Diponegoro University. and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.
Publication decisions
The editor of Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture 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.
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 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.
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.
Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
Research involving animals or human participants must be conducted in accordance with applicable ethical principles, institutional guidelines, and relevant national and international regulations. Studies involving livestock or other animals must ensure animal welfare, humane handling, and the minimization of pain, distress, and suffering. Ethical approval must be obtained from an appropriate animal ethics committee or institutional review board, where required, before the commencement of the study. The approval reference number and the name of the approving committee must be reported in the manuscript, where applicable.
Research involving human participants, including livestock farmers, animal handlers, farm workers, or other individuals involved in animal production systems, must comply with applicable human research ethics requirements. Informed consent must be obtained from participants when required, and their privacy, confidentiality, and rights must be protected. Ethical approval from an appropriate human research ethics committee must be obtained before the study begins, where required.
Authors must clearly describe any potential hazards associated with chemicals, biological materials, experimental procedures, or equipment used in the research, together with relevant safety precautions. All research must be conducted responsibly to protect the welfare of animals, the rights and safety of human participants, and the health and safety of researchers and other personnel involved in the study.
Disclosure and Conflicts 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.
This policy establishes guidelines for the responsible use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-assisted tools, in scholarly publishing. The use of these tools must be consistent with the principles of academic integrity, transparency, originality, confidentiality, and research ethics.
Authors, peer reviewers, and editors are responsible for ensuring that AI is used appropriately within their respective roles. Generative AI may support specific tasks where permitted, but it must not replace human judgment, intellectual contributions, or accountability for scholarly work. All parties must adhere to the following guidelines to maintain the quality, credibility, and integrity of the scholarly publication process.
1. Guidelines for Authors
Permitted Use: Authors may use Generative AI and AI-assisted tools to improve language, grammar, clarity, organization, and wording. However, AI must not replace authors' intellectual contributions, including developing arguments, interpreting findings, and ensuring scientific accuracy.
Disclosure: Authors must disclose whether and how Generative AI was used during manuscript preparation at the initial submission. The disclosure must describe the nature of its use, particularly for generating or rewriting text.
Authors' Responsibility: Authors remain fully responsible for the manuscript's accuracy, originality, and scientific integrity. All AI-assisted facts, citations, data, and claims must be verified before submission.
Research Integrity: AI must not be used to fabricate, falsify, or deceptively alter data, findings, maps, spatial analyses, figures, tables, or other research evidence. Any AI-assisted data processing or analysis must be transparently disclosed, and authors remain accountable for the results.
Authorship: Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors or contributors because they cannot assume responsibility for the work.
Visual Content: The use of AI to generate or modify figures and other visual materials must be disclosed. Such materials must accurately represent the research, and additional journal-specific requirements may apply
Confidentiality: Reviewers must not upload manuscripts, data, figures, or any other confidential review materials to Generative AI tools.
Independent Assessment: Peer review evaluations and reports must reflect reviewers' own expertise and judgment and must not be generated by AI.
Language Assistance: AI may be used solely to improve the language of reviewers' own comments, provided that no manuscript content is entered into the tool.
Reporting Concerns: Suspected undisclosed AI use, fabricated references, or manipulated content must be reported confidentially to the editor.
Confidentiality: Editors must protect the confidentiality of submissions, reviewer reports, and editorial correspondence and must not enter these materials into Generative AI tools.
Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions, including initial screening, reviewer assessment, and acceptance or rejection, must be made by humans and must not be delegated to AI.
Administrative Assistance: Secure AI-assisted tools may support administrative tasks, such as similarity screening and formatting checks, provided that confidentiality is maintained. AI-detection results must never serve as the sole basis for editorial decisions.
Handling Suspected Misconduct: Suspected AI misuse must be handled fairly and in accordance with COPE guidelines, allowing authors an opportunity to respond before any action is taken.
Referee Misconduct
Referee misconduct refers to any inappropriate, unethical, or unprofessional conduct committed by reviewers during the peer-review process. Such misconduct may range from relatively minor concerns, such as rude, biased, delayed, or unconstructive reviews, to more serious violations, including the misuse of confidential information, breach of anonymity, undeclared conflicts of interest, or the appropriation of an author’s ideas, data, arguments, or research findings.
Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture recognizes that reviewers hold a position of considerable trust and responsibility within the scholarly publication process. Reviewers are granted access to privileged and unpublished research materials, and their assessments may significantly influence editorial decisions. Therefore, the journal expects all reviewers to uphold the highest standards of confidentiality, integrity, objectivity, fairness, and professionalism.
The journal maintains a clear complaint-handling procedure for addressing allegations of reviewer misconduct. Complaints may be submitted by authors, editors, or other parties who identify possible misconduct during or after the review process. All complaints will be considered carefully and handled in accordance with the principles of fairness, confidentiality, and due process.
For minor forms of misconduct, such as inappropriate language, discourteous comments, excessive delays, or reviews that lack constructive academic value, the editorial team may remove offensive or irrelevant comments from the review report before forwarding it to the author. Reviewers who repeatedly submit poor-quality, late, biased, or unprofessional reviews may be removed from the journal’s reviewer database and will not be invited to review future manuscripts.
For serious allegations, including the suspected misuse of unpublished data, plagiarism of ideas, breach of confidentiality, or conflicts of interest that were not disclosed, the Editor-in-Chief may initiate a formal investigation. This may involve reviewing the relevant correspondence, consulting associate editors, requesting clarification from the reviewer concerned, and, where necessary, referring the matter to the reviewer’s institution or relevant ethical body. Appropriate actions will be taken based on the severity of the misconduct and the evidence available.
Corrections to Published Articles
Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture acknowledges that honest errors may occur in scientific research and scholarly publishing. When such errors are identified after publication, and when they do not invalidate the overall findings or conclusions of the article, the journal may issue a correction notice.
Authors are expected to promptly inform the Editor-in-Chief if they discover or are informed of factual errors, inaccuracies, or omissions in their published article. Corrections may also be initiated by editors, readers, or other parties when a substantive error is identified. The decision to publish a correction rests with the editorial team, based on the nature and significance of the error.
A correction notice will be published in the next available online issue of the journal. The online version of the article will be linked to the correction notice, and the correction notice will likewise be linked to the original article. Where applicable, correction notices will be indexed and connected to the original publication record in relevant indexing databases and repositories.
Retractions
Retractions are issued when there is clear evidence that the findings or conclusions of a published article are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct or honest error. Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture may consider retraction in cases involving, but not limited to, fabricated or falsified data, plagiarism, duplicate or redundant publication, unethical research practices, serious methodological flaws, unauthorized use of data, or other violations of publication ethics.
When concerns about an article are under investigation, but the evidence is not yet conclusive, the journal may publish an expression of concern. This notice informs readers that the integrity or reliability of the article is being examined while the investigation is ongoing.
All retraction notices will clearly state the reason for the retraction and, where appropriate, identify who is initiating it. Retraction notices will be published online and linked to the original article. When an article has already been included in a journal issue, the original article record will be retained to preserve the scholarly record. However, the article will be clearly marked as retracted. The PDF version may be replaced or watermarked with the phrase “Retracted Version” to ensure that readers are aware of its status.
In exceptional cases, such as those involving legal concerns, privacy violations, defamatory content, or risks of serious harm, the journal may remove the full text of the article from public access. In such circumstances, the article metadata, including the title and author information, will normally remain available, accompanied by a notice explaining that the article has been removed for legal or ethical reasons.
Retraction notices will be indexed, where possible, and linked to the original publication record in relevant databases, repositories, and indexing services. The purpose of retraction is not to punish authors, but to correct the scholarly record and maintain the integrity, transparency, and reliability of academic publishing.
Through these procedures, Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture reaffirms its commitment to ethical peer review, responsible editorial practice, and the preservation of academic integrity in scholarly communication.
Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture accepts discussions and corrections of published articles from readers. Readers who wish to submit a discussion or correction should contact the Editor-in-Chief via email, clearly explaining their comments. If accepted by the Editor-in-Chief, the discussion or correction will be published in the next issue as a Letter to the Editor. Authors may respond to such discussions or corrections by sending a reply to the Editor-in-Chief, which may be published as a Reply to the Letter to the Editor.
Post-publication corrections and amendments will be conducted with appropriate reference and careful scientific consideration. Once an article has been published, making replacements or issuing retractions requires significant effort and must be accompanied by proper explanations for the indexing databases. Therefore, authors are strongly advised to carefully check the final draft of their manuscript before publication.
Each manuscript submitted to the journal must have a minimum of two authors. All listed authors must meet the journal's authorship criteria and have made genuine scholarly contributions to the research and manuscript.
Authorship should be based on substantial contributions to the research and the preparation of the manuscript. To qualify for authorship, individuals must have made significant contributions to the conception or design of the study, the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, and must have participated in drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content.
All authors must approve the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission for publication. Each author should be accountable for their own contributions and share responsibility for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the work as a whole.
Individuals who have contributed to the research but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately in the Acknowledgements section, with their consent where applicable. Activities such as funding acquisition, general supervision, administrative support, or language editing alone do not justify authorship unless accompanied by substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all eligible contributors are included as authors, that no ineligible individuals are listed as authors, and that all authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript and agreed to its submission. Any changes to the authorship, including the addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors, after submission must be approved by all authors involved and communicated to the editor for consideration.
The journal does not accept honorary, guest, or gift authorship, nor does it permit ghost authorship. All authorship decisions must reflect actual scholarly contributions and comply with accepted standards of publication ethics.
The Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture (JITAA) is jointly published by the Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia, and the Indonesian Society of Animal Agriculture (ISAA). The journal is dedicated to disseminating original research that contributes to the understanding and development of animal agriculture in tropical regions.
The journal is managed by an editorial team comprising the Editor-in-Chief, editors, and editorial board members with expertise in animal science and related disciplines. The editorial team is responsible for establishing and implementing editorial policies, overseeing the peer-review process, evaluating submitted manuscripts, and making publication decisions in accordance with established standards of publication ethics and academic integrity.
JITAA applies a double-blind peer-review process to ensure an impartial and objective evaluation of submitted manuscripts. Editorial decisions are based on the scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, relevance, and contribution of the manuscripts to the field of tropical animal agriculture.
The publishers provide institutional support for the journal's administration, publishing operations, and dissemination of scholarly work while respecting the editorial independence of the editorial team. Editorial decisions are made independently of commercial interests and are not influenced by the institutional affiliations, personal relationships, or professional status of the authors.
Information regarding the journal's publishers, editorial team, management structure, and contact details is publicly available on the journal's official website to promote transparency, accountability, and trust in scholarly publishing.
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