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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript follows the official JFU template.
  • The manuscript is no longer than 7 pages.
  • The manuscript is submitted as a Microsoft Word (.docx) file.
  • Author names and affiliations are complete and correctly formatted.
  • One author designated as corresponding author.
  • e-mail address of the corresponding author.
  • The title contains no more than 20 words.
  • Both English and Indonesian abstracts are included.
  • Each abstract contains no more than 250 words.
  • There are 3–5 keywords in alphabetical order.
  • All figures and tables are cited in the text.
  • Manuscript cites at least 15 references, whereas more than 80% of the cited references are published in accredited or reputable journals within the last 10 years.
  • Acknowledgments, Conflict of Interest, Funding Statement, and AI Declaration are included.
  • References and citations follow APA 7th Edition.
  • The manuscript is not simultaneously submitted to another journal.
  • All authors have approved the final manuscript.

Author Guidelines

Jurnal Fisika Unand (JFU) accepts Original Research Articles in physics and closely related interdisciplinary fields that fall within the journal’s Aims, Focus and Scope. 

Manuscripts must be submitted through the JFU Online Submission System. Submission by email is not accepted, except where the Journal Office provides written instructions because of a documented technical problem. 

Before submitting a manuscript, authors must: 

  1. Read the Aims, Focus and Scope. 
  1. Prepare the manuscript in accordance with the Author Guidelines. 
  1. Use the current official JFU Manuscript Template. 
  2. Complete the Submission Preparation Checklist. 
  3. Ensure that all authors have approved the manuscript, author order, contribution statement, declarations, and submission. 
  4. Provide all required ethical, funding, data, competing-interest, and responsible-AI declarations. 
  5. Review the Article Processing Charges, Waivers and Refunds information and the applicable Editorial Policies. 

Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal’s scope, formatting, ethical, or submission requirements may be returned to the authors before editorial assessment. 

Copyright Notice

Copyright Ownership

Authors who publish with Jurnal Fisika Unand (JFU) retain copyright in their articles. JFU does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership to the journal or its publisher.

By submitting and publishing an article with JFU, the authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to:

  1. publish the article and identify JFU as the original publisher;
  2. reproduce and distribute the article in electronic, printed, and other appropriate formats;
  3. publish and distribute the article’s bibliographic information and metadata;
  4. register and maintain the article’s Digital Object Identifier and associated metadata;
  5. include the article in indexing, abstracting, discovery, repository, and digital-preservation services;
  6. preserve the article and its associated publication records;
  7. administer necessary corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or other post-publication notices; and
  8. promote and disseminate the article for scholarly and educational purposes.

The license granted to JFU is non-exclusive. Authors retain the right to use, reproduce, distribute, archive, translate, and develop their work, subject to the terms of the applicable publication license and proper acknowledgment of the article’s original publication in JFU.

Publication License

Unless otherwise stated on the article, content published by JFU is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, commonly identified as CC BY-NC 4.0.

Under this license, users may:

  1. share, copy, and redistribute the published material in any medium or format; and
  2. adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the published material for non-commercial purposes.

These permissions apply provided that users:

  1. give appropriate credit to the author or authors;
  1. identify Jurnal Fisika Unand as the original place of publication;
  2. provide a link to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License;
  3. indicate whether changes were made;
  4. do not imply that the authors, JFU, or Universitas Andalas endorse the user or the reuse; and
  5. do not apply legal terms or technological restrictions that prevent other users from exercising the rights permitted by the license.

The CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits sharing and adaptation only for non-commercial purposes. Use that is primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation requires permission from the relevant copyright holder. [creativecommons.org]

Author Rights

Authors may, subject to proper acknowledgment of the original publication:

  1. use the article in teaching, presentations, lectures, and professional activities;
  2. include the article or parts of it in a thesis, dissertation, book, or later scholarly work;
  3. share the published article with students, researchers, and professional colleagues;
  4. deposit the article in an institutional, disciplinary, or personal repository;
  5. distribute the article through non-commercial academic networks;
  6. translate or adapt the article; and
  7. reuse figures, tables, data, and other material created by the authors.

When reusing or depositing the article, authors should include the complete citation, Digital Object Identifier, journal title, year, volume, issue, page range or article number, and a link to the version of record.

Third-Party Material

The Creative Commons license applied to an article covers only material for which the authors or another identified rights holder are authorized to grant the license.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce or adapt third-party figures, tables, photographs, maps, datasets, questionnaires, software, substantial quotations, or other protected material unless the intended use is permitted by law or by an existing compatible license.

Third-party material that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license must include a clear credit line stating the copyright holder and applicable reuse conditions.

Where a figure, table, image, dataset, or other element contains a separate credit line, users must follow the reuse conditions stated in that credit line.

Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for ensuring that:

  1. the submitted work is original;
  2. the authors have the authority to submit and license the work;
  3. all sources are properly acknowledged;
  4. copyright-protected material is used lawfully;
  5. required permissions have been obtained before publication;
  6. related preprints, theses, conference papers, proceedings, repository copies, or earlier versions have been disclosed;
  7. the manuscript does not infringe copyright, privacy, confidentiality, moral rights, contractual rights, or other rights belonging to another person or organization; and
  8. all co-authors have approved the submission and the publication terms.

Prior Dissemination and Self-Archiving

Authors must disclose relevant prior dissemination of the work, including preprints, theses, dissertations, institutional repository copies, conference papers, and proceedings.

Prior dissemination does not automatically prevent consideration by JFU. However, duplicate or redundant publication without appropriate disclosure, acknowledgment, or justification is prohibited.

Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, or published version in a repository, subject to the version and acknowledgment requirements stated by JFU.

When depositing a published version, authors should provide the full citation and link to the version of record.

Copyright and License Statement on Published Articles

The following statement should appear consistently on the article landing page, PDF, HTML version, and publication metadata:

Copyright © [year] The Author(s). This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The full license text is available at:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Corrections, Retractions, and Publication Record

The authors’ retention of copyright does not prevent JFU from issuing a correction, expression of concern, retraction, removal notice, or other update required to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Post-publication notices will be managed in accordance with the JFU Corrections, Retractions and Post-Publication Discussion Policy.

Acceptance of the Copyright Notice

By completing a submission, the corresponding author confirms that:

  1. all authors have read and accepted this Copyright Notice;
  1. all authors have approved the submitted manuscript;
  2. the corresponding author is authorized to act on behalf of all authors for submission and publication purposes;
  3. the authors grant JFU the non-exclusive publication rights described above; and
  4. the authors accept responsibility for copyright permissions and third-party material included in the article.

Effective date: 7 Oktober 2026

Last reviewed: 7 Oktober 2026

Policy owner: Editorial Board, Jurnal Fisika Unand

Privacy Statement

1. Scope

Jurnal Fisika Unand (JFU) respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of the journal website and submission system. This Privacy Statement explains how personal information is collected, used, accessed, disclosed, retained, and protected in connection with the journal’s editorial, publishing, administrative, and website operations.
Personal information is processed only for legitimate scholarly publishing purposes and in accordance with applicable institutional requirements and Indonesian personal data protection law.

2. Personal Information We Collect

JFU may collect and process the following categories of personal information:
  1. Account and profile information, including name, username, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and user role.
  2. Author information, including author order, correspondence details, ORCID identifier where provided, biography, research interests, contribution statements, funding information, and competing-interest declarations.
  3. Reviewer information, including name, affiliation, email address, areas of expertise, review history, availability, competing-interest declarations, reviewer reports, and editorial correspondence.
  4. Editor and Editorial Board information, including name, affiliation, contact details, areas of expertise, assigned submissions, editorial decisions, and conflict-of-interest records.
  5. Manuscript and publication information, including submitted files, metadata, supplementary material, author declarations, ethics information, revision files, decision letters, and production records.
  6. Administrative and financial information required for invoicing, Article Processing Charge administration, waivers, discounts, or refunds, where applicable.
  7. Technical information generated through use of the website, including Internet Protocol addresses, browser and device information, access times, server logs, and essential cookies.
Users should not provide personal information that is unnecessary for the journal’s editorial, publishing, administrative, or legal purposes.

3. Purposes of Processing

JFU processes personal information for the following purposes:
  1. Creating and administering user accounts.
  2. Receiving and managing manuscript submissions.
  3. Conducting editorial screening and peer review.
  4. Identifying and inviting suitable reviewers.
  5. Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and journal staff.
  6. Managing revisions, editorial decisions, production, and publication.
  7. Publishing accurate author names, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, contribution statements, and corresponding-author details.
  8. Registering and distributing article metadata, including DOI metadata.
  9. Supporting indexing, discovery, preservation, and scholarly citation.
  10. Administering Article Processing Charges, waivers, discounts, invoices, and refunds where applicable.
  11. Maintaining records of editorial decisions and the scholarly record.
  12. Managing corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, authorship changes, complaints, appeals, and misconduct concerns.
  13. Protecting the journal website and submission system against unauthorized access, fraud, abuse, and security incidents.
  14. Improving the functionality and reliability of the journal website.
  15. Complying with applicable legal, regulatory, institutional, contractual, and research-integrity obligations.

4. Publicly Available Information

When an article is published, information necessary for attribution, citation, discovery, and scholarly communication may be made publicly available. This information may include:
  1. Author names and author order.
  2. Institutional affiliations.
  3. ORCID identifiers, where provided.
  4. The corresponding author’s contact information.
  5. Author contribution statements.
  6. Funding and competing-interest declarations.
  7. Ethics and data-availability statements.
  8. Article metadata and bibliographic information.
Published information may be distributed to DOI registration agencies, indexing services, library catalogues, repositories, preservation services, search engines, and other scholarly communication services.
Once information forms part of the published scholarly record, complete removal may not be possible or appropriate.

5. Peer-Review Confidentiality

JFU uses double-anonymous peer review. Author-identifying information is withheld from reviewers in the review file, and reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors, subject to the journal’s Peer Review Policy.
Absolute anonymity cannot be guaranteed where identities may be revealed through preprints, datasets, self-identifying citations, conference materials, repositories, or other prior dissemination.
Reviewer identities, confidential reviewer reports, internal editorial comments, manuscript files, and editorial correspondence are accessible only to authorized individuals who require access for legitimate editorial, administrative, technical, integrity, or legal purposes.
Authors, reviewers, editors, and journal staff must not disclose confidential manuscript or peer-review information outside the authorized editorial process.

6. Access to and Disclosure of Personal Information

Access to personal information is limited to authorized editors, journal staff, reviewers, technical administrators, and other persons who require the information to perform legitimate journal functions.
JFU does not sell personal information. Personal information will not be used for unrelated commercial purposes.
Personal information may be disclosed where reasonably necessary to:
  1. Operate the submission, peer-review, production, and publication process.
  2. Register DOIs and distribute publication metadata.
  3. Provide website hosting, email delivery, digital preservation, similarity screening, indexing, payment administration, or technical support.
  4. Investigate publication-ethics or research-integrity concerns.
  5. Communicate with an author’s or reviewer’s institution, ethics committee, funder, repository, or regulatory authority where necessary and appropriate.
  6. Protect the rights, security, and integrity of the journal, publisher, users, or scholarly record.
  7. Comply with applicable law, a lawful request, or a binding decision of a competent authority.
Where a service provider processes personal information on behalf of the journal or publisher, the information should be limited to what is necessary for the relevant service and handled under appropriate confidentiality, security, and data-protection arrangements.

7. Cookies and Technical Data

The JFU website may use essential cookies and related technologies required for user authentication, session management, language preferences, security, and the operation of Open Journal Systems.
Server logs may record technical information such as Internet Protocol addresses, browser information, requested pages, access times, and error messages.
Where non-essential analytics or third-party services are used, the journal should provide appropriate information and choices in accordance with applicable requirements.

8. Data Retention

JFU retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for editorial, publishing, administrative, security, legal, preservation, and research-integrity purposes.
Records associated with submissions, peer review, editorial decisions, published articles, corrections, retractions, complaints, appeals, and misconduct proceedings may need to be retained to preserve the integrity and history of the scholarly record.
Account information that is not connected to a submission or another necessary journal record may be corrected, anonymized, restricted, or deleted when an appropriate request is received and no overriding editorial, legal, security, or integrity reason requires its retention.
Deletion of a user account does not automatically require deletion of submission, peer-review, decision, publication, or integrity records that the journal must retain.

9. Data Security

JFU and its publisher take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
These measures may include access controls, account authentication, software maintenance, server protection, backups, activity records, and restrictions on access to confidential editorial information.
No online system can guarantee absolute security. Users are responsible for protecting their login credentials and should promptly notify the Journal Office if unauthorized access or another security concern is suspected.

10. User Rights and Requests

Subject to applicable law and the requirements of the scholarly record, a user may request:
  1. Information about the processing of the user’s personal information.
  2. Access to personal information held by the journal.
  3. Correction or completion of inaccurate personal information.
  4. Updating of account or profile information.
  5. Restriction of or objection to particular processing where applicable.
  6. Withdrawal of consent where processing depends on consent.
  7. Deletion or anonymization of personal information where retention is no longer necessary and no overriding obligation applies.
A request to amend or delete personal information does not automatically require alteration or removal of a published article, bibliographic metadata, peer-review record, editorial decision, correction, retraction notice, or other information necessary to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record.
JFU may request sufficient information to verify the identity and authority of the person making a privacy request.

11. Personal Information in Manuscripts and Supporting Files

Authors must ensure that manuscripts, datasets, images, supplementary files, acknowledgments, and other submitted materials do not contain unnecessary personal information.
Personal or identifiable information relating to research participants must be handled in accordance with applicable ethics approval, informed consent, consent for publication, confidentiality requirements, and the JFU Ethical Oversight of Research Policy.
Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission before providing personal information about contributors, acknowledged individuals, research participants, patients, or other third parties.
Authors must remove personal information that is not necessary for scientific evaluation or publication.

12. External Links and Services

The journal website may contain links to external services, including ORCID, DOI registration services, indexing databases, repositories, payment services, and institutional websites.
JFU is not responsible for the privacy practices of independent external websites or services. Users should review the privacy information provided by those services before submitting personal information.

13. Privacy and Data-Security Incidents

Suspected loss, unauthorized access, improper disclosure, or misuse of personal information should be reported promptly to the Journal Office.
JFU will assess the concern, take reasonable containment and corrective measures, preserve relevant records, and make any notification required under applicable institutional or legal requirements.
Persons reporting a privacy or data-security concern should provide sufficient information to allow the journal to identify the affected account, submission, article, or system activity.

14. Changes to This Privacy Statement

JFU may update this Privacy Statement when its editorial processes, technology, service providers, institutional requirements, or applicable law change.
Material changes will be dated and published on the journal website. The version displayed on the website is the current version of this Privacy Statement.
 
 
Effective date: 7 October 2026
Last reviewed: 7 October 2026
Policy owner: Editorial Board, Jurnal Fisika Unand