Editorial Policies
- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
- Plagiarism Screening
- Publication Ethics
- Article Processing Charge
Focus and Scope
Articles must be original writings about the results of community service activities in various fields of science application. Community service activities related to research implementation, application of appropriate technology, dissemination of innovation, and development of community empowerment models from various disciplines. The article must have never been published in international or national scientific journals.
Section Policies
Articles
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Peer Review Process
Decision of Publication
a) The Editor of the Jurnal Layanan Masyarakat is responsible for deciding which articles to submit to the journal must be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance for researchers and readers must always drive the decision. The editors can be guided by the policies of the journal editorial board and are limited by legal requirements that will apply regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors can negotiate with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
b) Fair Play, the Editor at any time evaluating texts for their intellectual content regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author.
c) Confidentiality, the Editor and any editorial staff may not disclose any information about the manuscript sent to anyone other than the appropriate author, reviewer, prospective reviewer, other editorial advisors, and publisher, as appropriate.
d) Disclosure and conflicts of interest, unpublished material disclosed in the text submitted may not be used in the editor's research without the written consent of the author.
Review Process
a) Review Process. After the manuscript is received, a plagiarism checking will be carried out using Turnitin, the tolerance limit of Turnitin is 25% if the manuscript has a similarity of less than 25% then it will be sent to the editor for review. After passing through the terms of writing, it will be sent to the reviewer (double-blind review). Each manuscript will be assigned by a minimum of two reviewers.
The paper that has been reviewed will have a decision: accepted without changes, minor revision, major revision, reject. Average number of weeks between article submission & publication is six weeks.
b) The reviewer's decision will be considered by the Editorial Board to determine the next process of the manuscript.
c) Revision Phase. After the manuscript is received with a small or large revised notation, the manuscript will be returned to the author with a summary review form. For texts received with major revisions, the author is given three weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts received with minor revisions, one week is allocated for revision. When returning a revised text, the author is required to fill out and attach a summary review form.
d) Final decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editor's Board to ensure that the authors have revised it in response to reviewers' concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript can still be rejected if the writer is not serious about making the necessary revisions.
e) Proofread. After the manuscript is deemed acceptable by the Editor's Board, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality.
f) Confirm publication. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be sent back to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the writer's writing. At this stage, the author can revise the typos found in the final manuscript. After confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as print publications.
Publication Frequency
Jurnal Layanan Masyarakat publish two times in one year
Open Access Policy
The journal allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose.
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.
JLM by Unair is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
Plagiarism Screening
One of the JLM core values is originality, therefore we did not tolerate any article that has plagiarism issues. We using 25% Turnitin as our plagiarism screening tool to ensure that our article is free from plagiarism issues.
Publication Ethics

Article Processing Charge
All articles published in our journals are free Article Processing Charge (APC), open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This includes the provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services.
Submission Charge
Submit an article into JLM is free without any charge.
Publication Charge
Article publication in JLM is free without any charge.