Editorial board of Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore, it establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in submitted article for publication in Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra

Definition:
Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of an author by representing it as own original work."

Policy:
Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication in any journal and proceeding. Any material taken from another source needs to be clearly-identified from the original text through (1) indentation, (2) quotation marks, and (3) source identification.

Any text exceeding the writing standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is identified, Editor in Chief is responsible for reviewing the paper and resend the paper to the author by stating that the paper is detected into plagiarism in the plagiarism notification letter in the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

Minor: A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper

Action: A warning is given to the author(s) and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article.

Intermediate: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper.

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the author(s) are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

Severe: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

Action: The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all sign in the Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Form. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subjected to the same penalty.

If the second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board (Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor in Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.

This policy applies also to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the material was previously published.

The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means the use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one-half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism of less than one-half of the paper but more than one tenth of the paper, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self-plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the case shall be considered as minor plagiarism.

All work in the manuscript should avoid plagiarism, falsification, fabrications, or omission of significant material.

Authors are expected to cite others' work and ideas explicitly, even if the work or ideas are not quoted verbatim or paraphrased. This standard applies whether the previous work is published, unpublished, or electronically available. Failure to properly cite the work of others may constitute plagiarism. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra applies a minimum standard of similarity score of the manuscript under 20%. The article should be revised or rejected if the manuscript performs above 20%. Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra applies a screening for plagiarism using Turnitin.

The papers published in the Pena: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra will be considered to retract in the publication if:

1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error).

2. The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper cross-referencing and permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication). It constitutes plagiarism. It reports unethical research.

3. The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org.