Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)

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Editorial Policy
- Submission of a paper to the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems for possible publication means that the authors certify that the manuscript has not been published previously nor is currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All legal responsibilities and duties about the contentss of the work belong to the authors.
- Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by at least two reviewers nominated by the editorial board.
- If all reviewers agree to recommend the publication of a manuscript, the manuscript will be accepted for publication. If not, the editor-in-chief confers with the associate editor who handles the manuscript and oversees deliberation in the editorial board meeting.
- The journal can request minor and/or major revisions to the manuscript.
- Copyrights to make digital and/or hard copy of, republish, and redistribute part or all of the work belong to the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems. All legal issues related to copyrights are the responsibility of the authors.

Ethics in Research
- Objectives
  
  This code of ethics is aimed at preventing misconduct in research by providing the essential ethical standards necessary for manuscripts submitted to and published in APJIS and by supplying rules on decisions and procedures for those manuscripts for which suspicions of plagiarism are raised.
- Definition of Plagiarism
  
  Plagiarism is defined here as an act of using ideas or words from another article that has already been published in a journal or book without proper citation or crediting of its source, thereby, misleading readers to overestimate the academic contribution of an article.
- Types of Plagiarism
  
  Plagiarism is classified into two types.
  1. 1) Simple Plagiarism
    
    Simple plagiarism is an act of borrowing the whole or a part of an original research output, by way of directly copying or superficially paraphrasing an original expression without proper citation, thus giving the misconception that the intellectual property is one's own. It also includes an act of publishing a translation of the whole or a part of an article published in a foreign language without proper citation. It also includes copying a significant part of a source article without using quotation marks even if credit has been given to the source.
  2. 2) Self-Plagiarism
    
    Self-plagiarism is an act of presenting the whole or a part of one's own research output that has already been published without citing the original source, thus providing the misconception that the work is new and thereby acquiring double recognition for a single research output.
- Investigation on Plagiarism and Judgment
  1. 1) Once a suspicion of plagiarism is raised on a published or accepted article, the editor-in-chief forms
    
    the Research Ethics Special Committee. The primary role of the Research Ethics Special Committee is to judge whether an article has been plagiarized or not. The Committee consists of five to seven members and must include two or more members from outside the editorial board.
  2. 2) As the first step, the Research Ethics Special Committee should internally evaluate a suspicion of
    
    plagiarism on a published or accepted article within 30 days. Then the Committee should give a rebuttal period of 30 days to the author(s) of the article under suspicion in order to defend his/her/their position before the Committee make a final decision on the plagiarism by a 2/3 vote of the entire committee members.
  3. 3) When a suspicion of plagiarism is raised during a review process, the editor-in-chief should solicit an
    
    opinion from an associate editor and the reviewer and then give a rebuttal period of 30 days to the author(s) before judging plagiarism.
- Course of Actions and Procedures on Plagiarized Articles
  1. 1) For an article that has been accepted for publication or is still in a review process, judging by the
    
    significance of the plagiarism, the editor-in-chief can request the author(s) to revise the article and give another opportunity for review or the editor-in-chief can decline a review and return the article to the author(s).
  2. 2) For an article that has already been published, the editor-in-chief should report the related matters
    
    to the President of the Korea Society of Management Information Systems (the Association, hereafter) including the raising of a suspicion of plagiarism, any related major developments in the handling process, and the judgment made by the Research Ethics Special Committee. The president then reports the matters to the board of directors. The board of directors determines actions corresponding to whether plagiarism has been committed or not and to how serious the plagiarism was that occurred.
  3. 3) When the final actions by the board of directors includes the revocation of the article's publication,
    
    in accordance with Article 9 and Clause 1 of Article 9 of "the Management Guide on the Listed Articles" by the Korean Research Foundation, the Association must remove the article from the list of articles published in the APJIS, ban any future submissions of manuscripts by the involved author(s) to the APJIS for the following three years, announce the above facts on the webpage of the Association as well as in the subsequent issue of the APJIS, and report the related matters to the Korea Research Foundation.
  4. 4) When the final actions taken by the board of directors do not include a revocation of the article's
    
    publication, the Association may, when deemed necessary, announce the related matters on both the webpage of the Association and in the subsequent issue of the APJIS.
- Preparation and Storage of Related Documents
  1. 1) Documents related with investigations, judgments, and actions on plagiarism must be archived in
    
    the following three categories.
    1. ① Logs on investigations of plagiarism
    2. ② Evaluation documents by the Research Ethics Special Committee and its reports to both the
      
      Association and the board of directors
    3. ③ Discussions, decisions, and actions by the board of directors
  2. 2) Anonymity must be guaranteed in all matters related to reports of suspicion and investigations into
    
    plagiarism. For this purpose, for each case two copies of related documents with the involved person's name (or persons' names) being removed must be created and kept, respectively, one by the executive office and one by the editorial board. The original document that states the involved person's name (or persons' names) must be kept permanently by the editor-in-chief.
- By-Laws
  1. 1) Effective Date
    1. ① The ethics code shall be effective from the date of enactment.
    2. ② The amended code shall be effective from the date of amendment
    3. ③ The ethics code was lastly updated on October 1, 2014

Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts to be submitted to APJIS should be either English or Korean. However, manuscripts in English are preferred.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through APJIS e-mail at apjis@kmis.or.kr. For your information, we attach the template of the paper publiched at APJIS.

Manuscripts must be prepared using word-processing software and should not exceed 30 pages.

When a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors will be asked to email short author biographies of no more than 200 words in electronic form, portrait photographs, and the final version of the work.

Manuscripts should include an extended abstract of 2~3 pages written in English before the body of the text.

The title of the work should be indicated in the first page. Authors should select no more than five key words to describe their paper's theoretical and methodological orientation. The key words should be placed under the title on the first page in the manuscript file.

Authors should not identify themselves (e.g. author's name and affiliation) in the paper. Authors' biographies and research interests should be provided as a separate document when submitting a manuscript.

All figures and tables (including titles, numbers, table notes, figure elements and explanatory notes) in the manuscript should be presented clearly in black and white to prevent delays and challenges encountered in the production stage.

Footnotes should be placed on the pages following the text body and should be numbered consecutively, indicated as a superscript to the text.

References in text should be formatted as in the examples below and must be included in the Reference section, and vice versa. A few examples are (Adams, 2007), (Adams, 2007; Brown, 2008), According to Adams (2007), etc.

Reference Format

Citation ordering and format should follow published Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems articles. References must be complete, i.e., include, as appropriate, last name and initials of all authors, volume, number, month, year, publisher, city and state, editors, page numbers, etc.

Below are some general directions

Sequence: Entries should be ordered alphabetically (in text and Reference section) according to authors' or editors' last names, or the title of the work for items with no author or editor listed.

References in text: These must be included in the Reference section and vice versa. References in text should be of the format (Jhon et al., 1995; Smith, 1996).

References to items in periodicals: These must include author, year, title, journal, volume, number, month, pages. For authors, last names are given first, even for multiple instances.

References to reports or proceedings: These must include the author's name and title of report (same style as above), report number, source, editor and/or publisher as appropriate, city and state/country of publisher OR full name of conference as appropriate, including date and pages.

References to books: These must include the author's name (same style as above), year, title, city, state/country, publisher, page, or chapter.

Use of et al.: Authors may not use "et al." in the list of References. The names of all authors and editors must be listed. If you are using End Notes, please check your References to ensure that the settings are correct and that all authors are listed in the References.

Submission/Publication Fees

There is no submission fee.

If the manuscript is written in English, no publication fee is required.
If the manuscript is written in Korean, the following publicaiton fee will be applied.

KRW 100,000 for the first 10 pages.
Additional KRW 10,000 per page will apply after page 10.

Please send the publication fee to the following bank accounts.
Shinhan Bank 262901-01-009469 Woori Bank 329-315746-18-232

Review Process
The Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems uses the following review process

The editor-in-chief first screens the submission, evaluating whether the manuscript complies with the editorial format of the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems. Next, the editor-in-chief selects an associate editor and sends the manuscript to the associate editor to request the nomination of reviewers. The editor-in-chief then notifies the first or corresponding author about receipt of the manuscript.

The associate editor nominates at least two reviewers with a high level of expertise in the topic area of the manuscript and sends the manuscript to them. The associate editor notifies the editor-in-chief of the list of reviewers.

The panel of reviewers informs the associate editor of the review results.

The associate editor reports the review team's decision to the editor-in-chief. However, the first round of review process will be completed with a month.

If the review result is "conditionally accept" or the revisions requested are inconsequential, the manuscript will be conditionally accepted. The associate editor returns the manuscript and requests author revision based on the reviewers' comments and feedback. The author then sends the revised work to the associate editor, who asks the review team whether the changes made by the author are satisfactorily in compliance with the recommendations requested. The review team informs the associate editor of the final review result, and the associate editor reports it to the editor-in-chief.

If the review result is "revise and resubmit" or the revisions requested are substantive, the manuscript will be sent out for review again. The associate editor returns the manuscript and requests author revision based on reviewers' comments and feedback. The author sends the revised work to the associate editor and the associate editor solicits additional review from the review team. The review team informs the associate editor of the final review result, and the associate editor reports it to the editor-in-chief. This process will be repeated as necessary.

Revision requests can be made more than twice if necessary.

When accepted for publication, the author sends the electronic copy of the work to the editor-in-chief with complete payment, if necessary. The editor-in-chief then sends the author the certification of publication with the volume, number, and publication date of the prospective issue indicated.

Publication Period

The Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems publishes quarterly. Publication is made on the last day of March, June, September, and December each year. Special issues can also be published if necessary.

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