DIEGESIS: Jurnal Teologi is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and scholarly responsibility. This statement applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher.

The journal expects every manuscript to uphold the principles of originality, honesty, objectivity, transparency, confidentiality, and accountability in theological scholarship.

1. Duties of Authors

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are original scholarly works, have not been previously published, and are not under consideration by another journal.

Authors must present theological arguments, biblical interpretations, historical analyses, doctrinal reflections, and ministry studies accurately and responsibly. All sources, quotations, ideas, data, and references used in the manuscript must be properly acknowledged and cited.

Authors must avoid plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, duplicate publication, improper citation practices, and unethical authorship.

For studies involving interviews, churches, ministry communities, theological institutions, or human participants, authors must respect informed consent, confidentiality, dignity, and the welfare of all participants.

2. Duties of Editors

Editors are responsible for evaluating manuscripts based on academic quality, originality, relevance to the journal’s focus and scope, methodological rigor, theological contribution, and compliance with ethical standards.

Editorial decisions must be made objectively and fairly without discrimination based on denomination, gender, ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliation, theological tradition, or personal background.

Editors must ensure that all manuscripts undergo appropriate editorial screening and peer review. They are also responsible for maintaining manuscript confidentiality and preventing conflicts of interest throughout the editorial process.

3. Duties of Reviewers

Reviewers are responsible for providing objective, constructive, critical, and timely evaluations of submitted manuscripts.

Reviewers should assess the manuscript’s relevance, originality, clarity, methodology, theological argumentation, use of sources, scholarly contribution, and significance for the church, ministry, and society.

Reviewers must treat all manuscripts as confidential documents and may not use unpublished materials, ideas, or data for personal or academic benefit.

Reviewers should notify the editor if they identify plagiarism, duplicate publication, inaccurate citations, ethical concerns, methodological weaknesses, or conflicts of interest.

4. Plagiarism and Originality

All manuscripts submitted to DIEGESIS: Jurnal Teologi must be free from plagiarism and demonstrate originality in argumentation, analysis, interpretation, and scholarly contribution.

The journal may use plagiarism detection software to evaluate manuscript originality. Manuscripts containing plagiarism, improper citation, duplicate publication, data manipulation, or other forms of academic misconduct will be rejected.

If ethical violations are discovered after publication, the journal reserves the right to issue corrections, withdrawals, or retractions in accordance with editorial policies.

5. Conflict of Interest

Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose any potential conflicts of interest that may influence the publication process.

Conflicts of interest may include personal relationships, institutional affiliations, academic competition, financial interests, denominational bias, or any other circumstances that may compromise objectivity and fairness.

Individuals with conflicts of interest must not participate in the review or editorial decision-making process for the related manuscript.

6. Ethical Standards in Theological Research

Articles dealing with biblical studies, Christian doctrine, church history, practical theology, Pentecostal theology, mission studies, pastoral ministry, or contemporary theological issues must be written with academic responsibility and respect for Christian communities.

Authors must avoid misrepresenting Scripture, theological traditions, denominations, churches, institutions, individuals, or communities. Theological arguments should be presented critically, respectfully, and constructively.

Research involving pastors, church members, students, congregations, or ministry participants must be conducted ethically, with attention to informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, and human dignity.

7. Corrections, Withdrawals, and Retractions

DIEGESIS: Jurnal Teologi reserves the right to issue corrections, withdrawals, or retractions when serious errors, plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, ethical violations, or academic misconduct are identified.

All corrections and retractions will be handled transparently and in accordance with accepted standards of scholarly publishing.

8. Publisher’s Responsibility

The publisher supports the editorial board in maintaining ethical publication practices and safeguarding the integrity of the journal.

The publisher does not interfere with editorial decisions and is committed to ensuring that DIEGESIS: Jurnal Teologi remains a credible academic platform for theological scholarship, church ministry, and Christian thought.