Publication Ethics

The Denta: Jurnal Kedokteran Gigi adheres to the strictest guidelines for academic publishing. Authors are required to confirm that they have read and cooperated with the Denta Journal's regulations before submitting a submission. Any article that the editor feels might not adhere to these standards may be rejected by the Denta Journal without review or retracted. The following outlines the responsibilities that the journal's publishers, editors, reviewers, and authors have with relation to research and publishing ethics. This statement is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

The act of submitting a manuscript to the Denta Journal means that it has never been published before, either in whole or in part, in any language, is not currently in press, and is not being considered for publication anywhere else. If authors are aware of any relevant papers that are being considered, in press, or published elsewhere, they must notify the editors. A manuscript's presence on a publicly available preprint server does not imply previous publication (see "Preprints"). Authors must first withdraw their paper from the journal if they decide to submit it elsewhere before a judgment or the final decision has been made on whether or not it should be published there.

Submission 
Submissions of manuscripts from authors located anywhere in the world are encouraged by the journal. When a manuscript is submitted to a journal, it is assumed that all of the authors have given their approval, attested to the article's veracity, consented to its submission, and have the right to publish it.

Originality
Submission to the journal implies that the paper is original work. The journal may check submissions for plagiarized content using Turnitin's Similarity Check program. Authors consent to this screening when they submit their work to the journal. At the editors' discretion, any manuscript that contains an excessive amount of unoriginal content may be rejected or withdrawn.

Preprints
The Denta Journal recommends that a manuscript should never be placed on a preprint server after it has been edited in response to reviewers' feedback, accepted for publication, or published in a journal. The authors of a paper should update the preprint with a link to the published journal article if it is accepted for publication in the DentaJournal. When uploading their writing to a preprint server, authors should keep the journal's copyright intact.

Scooping
The editors will evaluate a manuscript's novelty independently from other manuscripts that are published on community-recognized preprint servers after the submission date (or, if the manuscript is submitted within 12 weeks, after the date of posting on a preprint server).

Authorship
The act of submitting work to a journal indicates that every author has reviewed and approved the list of authors. After the article is submitted, all authors and the editor must agree to any changes made to the list of authors, including adding or removing names and changing the order of the authors.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Guidelines for "Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors" must be adhered to by the authors. According to the ICMJE, authorship should be determined by the following four criteria: authoring the manuscript or critically editing it for significant intellectual content; providing a significant contribution to the idea or design of the work; or obtaining, analyzing, or interpreting data for the work. Accepting responsibility for all parts of the work and endorsing the paper in its final draft for publication. Any author on the document who satisfies all four requirements should be identified as such. Contributors who don't fit all four requirements should be included in the acknowledgements section of the article rather than as authors.
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as large language models (LLMs) and other publicly accessible services, are not eligible to be identified as authors of manuscripts since they do not match the aforementioned standards.

Data falsification, data fabrication, and image integrity
Authors are not allowed to invent or manipulate data. Authors are allowed to digitally alter or edit photos, but only if the changes are minimal, made to the whole image, adhere to community guidelines, and are explained in detail in the text. A manuscript's visuals must all faithfully depict the original data that they are based on. Authors are not allowed to alter, crop, add, or improve certain areas of a picture. The right to seek original, raw photos from authors is reserved by the editors. A manuscript may be rejected or withdrawn if the requisite photos are not provided.

Availability of data and materials
When using publicly accessible data and resources, such as those from commercial manufacturers or public repositories, authors are required to provide credit to the original source by adding accession numbers or firm information in their manuscripts, where applicable.
Throughout the peer review process, all data sets must be fully accessible to the editors and reviewers, and by the publication date, consideration must be given to making them publicly available. The authors pledge to keep their data sets preserved for a minimum of 10 years beyond the date of the journal publication. The journal encourages authors to comply with reasonable requests from colleagues to provide information about any materials, procedures, or experimental data used in their study. The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY SA) 4.0 International license is used to make the data public.

Reproducing copyrighted material
If any content in a document is protected by copyright and is not owned by the authors, the authors must get permission from the copyright holder(s) before reproducing it. The publishers of the original work and the copyright holders must get permission for the authors to replicate any previously published content in a manuscript. In their document, the authors are required to cite the source work. The manuscript must be first submitted with copies of any reproduction licenses.

Animal or human experimentation
Manuscript authors who describe experiments with humans or materials originating from humans must show that the study was done in compliance with the criteria established by the authors' institutions and the Declaration of Helsinki, as well as any amendments to the Declaration. When appropriate, the authors should add a note in their paper outlining how participants' informed permission was obtained for both research participation and publishing.
Manuscript authors who describe research using animals or products produced from animals have to show that the study was done under the institution's established criteria.

Clinical trial registration
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) policy on clinical trial registration is followed by the journal. It states that registration in a public trials registry of all clinical trials should occur at or prior to the time of the first patient enrollment in order for the trial to be considered for publication. The name of the trial registry and the study's registration number must appear in manuscripts detailing clinical studies.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
Large Language Models, or LLMs, are another name for artificial intelligence (AI) tools. According to COPE Guidelines, authors must fully disclose and detail any usage of these tools in the Materials and Methods section, whether they are generative or non-generative. This involves, but is not limited to, writing all or part of the article using AI tools, producing or editing the pictures or graphics used in the manuscript, and gathering or analyzing data. Authors are required to specify the tools they used and how they were used. Generally speaking, generative AI technologies may only be used in situations when they are an essential component of the study concept or methodology. Any other usage will be considered on an individual basis. Authors are always in charge of the whole content of the manuscripts they submit.
Authors need to be aware that questions concerning the copyright status of any material created by AI are still being raised. The guidelines in this document's section under "Reproducing copyrighted material" must be followed, in addition to any applicable statutory and other copyright rules. It is allowed to utilize non-generative AI technologies, such as spell and grammar checks, to make a work easier to read. Unpublished papers cannot be uploaded by reviewers or editors to any AI tool or service. According to other sections of this agreement, doing so would violate the obligations pertaining to secrecy and privacy. In the event that unpublished content is posted to a third-party service, copyright concerns may also arise.

Author competing interests and conflicts of interest
To ensure openness, the DentaJournal requests that all authors disclose any competing interests or conflicts of interest pertaining to the work they have submitted. When there are real, imagined, or possible conditions that could affect an author's capacity to perform or report research objectively, there is a conflict of interest. Competing financial or commercial interests, business links, consultancy positions, and stock or equity ownership are a few examples of potential conflicts. In the manuscript's acknowledgements section, authors ought to enumerate all funding sources for their study.

Retractions or Errata
Retraction is an option for published articles that violate research or publishing ethical norms of conduct, have been published elsewhere, or include erroneous or untrustworthy results or conclusions. People who think an article that has been published ought to be withdrawn are urged to get in touch with the journal's Editorial Office and explain their concerns in detail. The Chief Editor will look into this more and get in touch with the published article's authors to get their reaction. When co-authors cannot agree on a retraction, the Editor-in-Chief may seek guidance from the Editorial Board or outside peer reviewers. Any authors who disagree will be acknowledged in the text if a Retraction is released.
The Editor-in-Chief has the final say on whether to publish retractions or errata.

Confidentiality
All papers that are not published are kept secret by the journal. The authors guarantee that, when submitting their work to the publication, they will maintain complete confidentiality regarding any communication regarding their work, including that from the editors, reviewers, and editing office.

Green Open Access (self-archiving) policy
One way for authors to make a copy of their work available online is by self-archiving, which is sometimes referred to as Green Open Access. After their work is published in the journal, authors of original research submissions are encouraged by the journal to immediately submit it to an institutional repository.

Extended digital preservation
Universitas Airlangga preserves its full digital library, including the journal utilizing the CLOCKSS system (see "Archiving"). If the material becomes inaccessible at Universitas Airlangga, it will be released and made available through CLOCKSS.

Advertising Policy
Advertising is neither accepted nor published by the journal on its website or on its article pages.