Editorial Policies & Publishing Standards
Journal Policy Directory
Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Industry (ALFI) maintains a comprehensive framework of editorial and publishing policies designed to promote transparency, research integrity, independent peer review, responsible authorship, Open Access, and preservation of the scholarly record. This directory provides centralized access to the journal's policies for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, institutions, and other stakeholders.
Transparent Publishing Framework
ALFI's policies apply throughout the scholarly publishing process—from manuscript submission and peer review to publication, post-publication correction, preservation, and responsible reuse. Authors, reviewers, editors, and readers are encouraged to consult the relevant policy whenever necessary.
Editorial Standards
Editorial & Peer Review Policies
Policies governing manuscript evaluation, authorship responsibilities, editorial independence, competing interests, complaints, and scholarly decision-making.
Describes ALFI's double-anonymous peer-review system, reviewer independence, editorial screening, decision procedures, revision, and safeguards for conflicted submissions.
Defines legitimate authorship, contributor responsibilities, CRediT roles, corresponding-author duties, authorship changes, and unacceptable authorship practices.
Establishes disclosure and management requirements for financial, institutional, academic, professional, personal, and other competing interests.
Provides procedures for complaints concerning editorial conduct or journal processes and for formal appeals against editorial decisions.
Defines ALFI's three regular annual issues in April, August, and December and its continuous issue publication model.
Integrity & Responsible Research
Research Integrity & Ethics Policies
Policies addressing ethical research conduct, originality, publication integrity, artificial intelligence, human participants, animal welfare, and responsible scholarly communication.
Establishes ethical responsibilities of authors, reviewers, editors, and the journal in protecting the integrity of scholarly publication.
Explains similarity screening, plagiarism assessment, text recycling, inappropriate paraphrasing, translated plagiarism, and editorial action on overlapping content.
Covers ethical approval, informed consent, human-participant research, animal welfare, sensory studies, biological materials, and ethical documentation.
Defines responsible AI use by authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial staff while preserving human accountability, transparency, confidentiality, and research integrity.
Access, Rights & Publishing Costs
Open Access & Author Rights
Defines ALFI's immediate Open Access model, reader access, reuse permissions, self-archiving, and CC BY 4.0 licensing framework.
Confirms that authors retain copyright and that ALFI articles are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Explains ALFI's Diamond Open Access model and confirms that authors pay no submission, processing, peer-review, publication, DOI, or Article Processing Charge.
Scholarly Record
Publication Record & Version Integrity
Establishes procedures for corrections, Expressions of Concern, retractions, pre-publication withdrawal, exceptional removal, and preservation of publication history.
Explains ALFI's framework for communicating publication updates, metadata maintenance, content status, and Version of Record integrity.
Policy Updates
ALFI's editorial and publishing framework is subject to continuing review. Newly adopted policies will be incorporated into this directory after publication on the journal website. The authoritative version of each policy is the version displayed on its respective official ALFI policy page.
Commitment to Transparent Scholarly Publishing
ALFI is committed to transparent policies, independent editorial decision-making, responsible peer review, ethical research, author rights, Open Access, and preservation of a reliable scholarly record. These policies provide the operational framework through which the journal protects the integrity, credibility, accessibility, and accountability of its publishing activities.
Publishing Responsibility
Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Industry (ALFI) is affiliated with Yayasan Kalidaka Cendikia Nusantara and formally published by WISE Pendidikan Indonesia. The journal and publisher are committed to maintaining clear, accessible, consistent, and publicly available editorial and publishing policies while respecting the independence of scholarly editorial decision-making.