Duties of Editors
Publication decisions
The editorial board of Jurnal Keolahragaan is entrusted with the decision of which articles to publish. Board members collaborate with reviewers and consider their feedback while ensuring compliance with legal standards, such as those concerning defamation, copyright violations, and plagiarism. Editorial decisions are made objectively and are not influenced by the manuscript’s origin, including the author’s nationality, ethnicity, political views, race, or religion.

Confidentiality, disclosure, and conflicts of interest
Editors are obligated to uphold confidentiality during the review process, sharing manuscript-related information only with the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and other editorial advisers. Any unpublished content from a submitted manuscript must not be used in the editor’s, reviewer’s, or any other reader’s research without the author's explicit written consent. Additionally, readers must be informed about the funding sources behind the research or scholarly work and any role that funders may have played in the study or its publication, if applicable.

Author relations
Editors are committed to ensuring a fair, unbiased, and timely peer review process. The journal maintains policies that manage submissions from editorial board members in a way that preserves impartiality. Author guidelines also clarify the criteria for authorship.

Reviewer relations
The journal encourages reviewers to address ethical concerns and identify any potential misconduct in submissions, such as unethical research design or improper data manipulation. Reviewers should also watch for issues like redundant publication and plagiarism. Reviewers' feedback should be shared with the authors in full, except when the comments contain offensive or defamatory content. The journal regularly acknowledges the contributions of its reviewers and will discontinue the use of those who consistently provide discourteous, low-quality, or delayed reviews.

Quality assurance
Editors are responsible for taking reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the published material, recognizing that different sections of the journal may have different goals and standards. They must confirm that the research has been approved by an appropriate ethics committee or institutional review board, when applicable. Editors must also be vigilant about intellectual property issues and cooperate with publishers to resolve any legal or procedural issues. Any errors, inaccuracies, or misleading information must be corrected promptly and transparently.

Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and 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.

Acknowledgment 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 behavior 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.

Acknowledgment 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.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another 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.

Plagiarism Policies
Jurnal Keolahragaan enforces a strict anti-plagiarism policy, prohibiting the use of others' ideas, words, or works without proper attribution. Manuscripts that exhibit any form of plagiarism, whether partial or complete, as well as those with duplicate publications or self-plagiarism (in any language), will be rejected. Manuscripts available in preprint form are not considered duplicate publications. The corresponding author assumes full responsibility for the manuscript throughout the review and publication process and has the authority to represent all co-authors. All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using Turnitin, and those with an unacceptable similarity index are immediately rejected.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts
Once submitted, authors are not permitted to withdraw their manuscripts as it wastes valuable time and resources of both editors and reviewers. However, if no updates are received after six months, authors may request to withdraw the manuscript, notifying the Editorial Board accordingly.

Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retraction
Corrections to a published article can only be made with the editor's approval. Minor corrections are incorporated directly into the original article, while significant corrections will be published alongside the original, with both versions linked and an explanation provided. Retractions will be handled in accordance with COPE retraction guidelines. 

Conflict of Interest
All authors must disclose any conflicts of interest related to their manuscript, including connections to institutions, products, or other entities that could influence the study's outcomes. In cases where there are no competing interests, the statement, "The authors declare that they have no competing interests," will be included.

Ethics and Consent for Human, Animal and Plant Research
All original research involving humans, animals, plants, or biological materials must include an ethics approval statement. This must include the name of the ethics committee, the approval number, and confirmation that informed consent was obtained. If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. For animal research, adherence to international, national, and institutional guidelines is required. All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Plant studies must be carried out in accordance with guidelines either by national or international institutions or regulations. If possible, a statement of the permission granted or license should be included. Authors should comply with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Allegations of Misconduct
Plagiarism
Plagiarism includes directly copying text, ideas, images, or data from other sources without proper citation, reusing one’s own previously published content without permission, or using slightly modified ideas from another source without attribution. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism during peer review may be rejected, and published papers may be retracted or corrected.

Data fabrication
Data fabrication involves creating or falsifying research results. This includes any manipulation of research data with the intent to mislead, such as altering images or removing outliers to present a false outcome.

Data falsification
Authors are required to ensure that their manuscript is not being reviewed by any other publication simultaneously. If a duplicate submission is discovered, it will be considered intentional. For secondary submissions, such as translated works, authors must notify the journal and seek approval from the original publisher and copyright holder, making the manuscript's prior history clear.

Duplicate submissions
Authors must confirm that their manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere. If a duplicate submission is found, it will be treated as a deliberate act. For secondary submissions, such as translations, authors must inform the journal and obtain approval from the original publisher and copyright holder, clearly indicating the manuscript's history.

Authorship Issues
There should be clear guidelines for authorship and contributors, and the journal provides a transparent process to manage potential authorship disputes.

Citation Manipulation
Excessive citations included solely to boost an author's citation count or promote a particular journal are considered scientific misconduct. Such practices misrepresent the importance of the work and the journal.

Suspected Manipulation of Peer Review/Bias of Peer Reviews
The journal carefully selects reviewers to avoid conflicts of interest and follows COPE guidelines for peer review processes.

Errata and Corrigenda
Changes/additions to accepted articles
Every article that is published undergoes a thorough editorial review managed by the editor. Should authors wish to add new content to an accepted article, they must submit a request to the editor, and the additional material will be evaluated. If the new content is to be included in the accepted article, it must be submitted as a new manuscript for peer review, with a citation to the original article. If the new content replaces any part of the accepted article, the editor may decide to issue either an erratum or a corrigendum.

Erratum
An erratum is issued to correct errors made by the publisher during the production process, and it is flagged during proofing for the author's review.

Corrigendum
A corrigendum is issued when the author requests a correction after acceptance. The editor will assess the significance of the change and determine the appropriate course of action.