Matheo: Jurnal Teologi/Kependetaan is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and scholarly responsibility. The journal applies ethical principles throughout the entire publication process, including manuscript submission, editorial screening, peer review, editorial decision-making, publication, correction, and retraction when necessary.

All parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, are expected to uphold the principles of honesty, objectivity, transparency, confidentiality, and accountability in accordance with international scholarly publishing standards.

1. Duties of Authors

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

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

Authors must ensure that all listed authors have made significant academic contributions to the manuscript. Plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, and unethical authorship practices are strictly prohibited.

For studies involving congregations, churches, educational institutions, pastoral ministries, interviews, or specific communities, authors must respect participants’ privacy, confidentiality, dignity, and informed consent.

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, scholarly contribution, and compliance with publication ethics.

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

Editors must maintain the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and ensure that each submission undergoes an appropriate editorial and peer review process. Editors are also responsible for preventing and managing conflicts of interest throughout the publication process.

3. Duties of Reviewers

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

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

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

Reviewers should immediately inform the editor if they identify plagiarism, duplicate publication, citation errors, ethical concerns, methodological weaknesses, or conflicts of interest.

4. Plagiarism and Originality

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

The journal may use plagiarism detection software to assess manuscript originality. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, or other forms of academic misconduct will be rejected.

If ethical violations are identified after publication, the journal reserves the right to issue corrections, withdraw articles, or publish retractions in accordance with its editorial policies.

5. Conflict of Interest

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

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

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 and Pastoral Research

Articles addressing biblical studies, Christian doctrine, church history, Pentecostalism, pastoral ministry, congregational life, and practical theology must be conducted and presented with academic responsibility and respect for Christian faith communities.

Authors should avoid misrepresentation of denominations, churches, institutions, individuals, or communities.

Theological arguments should be presented in a scholarly, critical, constructive, and respectful manner that promotes healthy academic dialogue and contributes to the advancement of theological scholarship and pastoral ministry.

7. Corrections, Withdrawals, and Retractions

Matheo: Jurnal Teologi/Kependetaan reserves the right to issue corrections, withdraw articles, or publish retractions when serious errors, plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, ethical violations, or other forms of academic misconduct are identified.

All correction and retraction procedures will be conducted transparently in accordance with accepted scholarly publishing standards.

8. Publisher’s Responsibilities

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 Matheo: Jurnal Teologi/Kependetaan remains a credible academic platform for the advancement of theological studies and pastoral ministry.