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 the Asian Review of Financial Studies (ARFR, hereafter) 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 plagiarisim 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 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) The chairman of the Research Ethics Special 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 judges on the plagiarism by a 2/3 vote of the entire committee.
  3. 3) When a suspicion of plagiarism is raised during a review process, the editor should solicit an opinion from the reviewer or an associate editor 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 can request the author(s) to revise the article and give another opportunity for review or the editor can decline a review and return the article to the author(s).
  2. 2) For an article that has already been published, the editor should report the related matters to the President of the Korean Finance Association (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 ARFR, ban any future submissions of manuscripts by the involved author(s) to the Journal for the following three years, announce the above facts on the webpage of the Association as well as in the subsequent issue of the ARFR, 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 ARFR.
- 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 editorial board and its reports to 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.
- 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

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
Review Criteria

APJIS uses the following criteria to review manuscripts: originality, conceptual significance, academic significance, research methodology, structure and coherence, expression, and theoretical validity. Upon submission, manuscripts are checked for their completeness and adherence to our editorial policies and the criteria listed below, whereafter detailed comments and feedbacks are made regarding strengths and weaknesses, requests for author revision and reviewers' final recommendations. The review criteria are as follows.

Originality: Does the work distinguish itself from others and is there a clear difference between prior literature and the work in terms of topic, theory, methodology, overall logic and/or implication?

Conceptual Significance: Does the work represent an important contribution to knowledge? Does the work lead to the discovery of new empirical phenomena, in-depth understanding of the phenomena, and extend or challenge IS theory?

Academic Significance: Does the work contribute to our understanding of current problems or challenges faced by IS or other researchers? Does the work deliver a meaningful lesson to the reader?

Research Methodology: Does the work use scientific methods? Is the work well executed, from provision of research propositions and design artifacts to interpretation of results?

Structure and Coherence: Is the flow of ideas in the work logical? Is the work presented at an appropriate level of sophistication in both content and design?

Expression: Does the work adopt a professional style and tone? Is it clear and effective in its use of language appropriate to the readership of the journal?

Theoretical Validity: Does the work adhere to generally accepted codes of scientific ethics

Review Process

The editor-in-chief first screens the submission to assess whether the manuscript complies with the editorial format of APJIS. 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 three 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. In general, the first round of review process will take around one month.

The manuscript is evaluated based on a five-point scale from "strongly disagree," "disagree," "neither agree nor disagree," "agree" to "strongly agree" according to each criterion mentioned above. Next, the reviewers decide on the disposition of the manuscript, which may be one of "accept," "conditionally accept," "revise and resubmit," "reject," "reject but resubmission" or "submission to another journal," and make a final recommendation to the associate. "Conditionally accept" means that the manuscript will be accepted without another full review process on the condition that the author has completed the revision requests and the changes made by the author are satisfactory. In this case, the associate editor sends an inquiry to the review team to certify that the revised work is acceptable enough for final appearance in the journal. "Revise and resubmit" means that the manuscript will be sent back to the author with the reviewers' suggestions for improvement. In this case, the revised work will go through a review process again after author revision. "Reject but resubmission" means that although the manuscript has a potential, it is not easy for authors to successfully reflect all reviewers' suggestions within the limited time. In this case, the revised work will be considered as a new submission. "Submission to another journal" means that the reviewers deem it more appropriate to forward the submitted manuscript to another journal whose research specification better matches with the work than do those of APJIS

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. However, in most cases, a final decision will be made before or on the third round of review.

When accepted for publication, the journal manager sends author the final guide mail with Copyright Transfer Agreementbefore publication. After submission of final work with the Copyright Transfer Agreement, journal manager starts editing the journal based on the final script. Once editing of the journal is completed, the journal manager sends the edited version of the journal to the author. In request of the publication certificate, the journal manager is responsible for transferring the certification of publication with the volume, issue, and publication date of the prospective issue indicated.
APJIS-Copyright Transger Agreement-form

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