Ethics

The Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal (SEAMJ) adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) standards on publications ethics. Submission of an article implies that:

• The work has never been published before, except as an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis.
• That it is not being considered for publishing anywhere else.
• That all Authors are aware of and agree with its submission and publication in the journal.
• The work is the Author's own, and there is no falsification, fabrication of facts, or plagiarism, including the Author's own duplicate publication without proper citation.

When submitting an article, authors should add comments on research involving human subjects/animals, conflict of interest, and informed consent (if relevant) in a separate section entitled "Compliance with Ethical Standards" before the References.

Manuscripts that do not adhere to the standards may be rejected by the journal. False statements or failure to follow the guidelines will be held against the author. Please read the Manuscript Submission Guidelines for further details.

Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with using the guidelines issued by COPE. For further details please refer to this COPE Document.

Copyright Policy

Authors will be asked to transfer copyright upon acceptance of an article. This transfer will ensure that information is disseminated as widely as feasible. The corresponding Author will be notified that the manuscript has been received.

If the Author(s) include quotations from other copyrighted works, they must seek explicit permission from the copyright owners and attribute the source(s) in the article.

Download the SEAMJ Publishing Agreement.

Content Originality and Plagiarism

Authors are responsible to submit contents which are original, and for other works which have been referred to in the research, proper citations must be made to the referred works. All articles submitted to the journal are subject to plagiarism check using Turnitin software.

Open Access Policy

Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal (SEAMJ) is a peer-reviewed journal that is completely open access. All articles are free to read, distribute, and download. Authors and journals must be properly attributed in accordance with publication ethics and best practices in scientific publishing.

Publication Charges

There is no submission charge or article processing charge (APC).

Licensing Information

Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ISSN 1819-5091) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Under the terms of this license, you are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

You may share or adapt SEAMJ content under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

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Review of Manuscript

Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal (SEAMJ) uses double-blind academic review, which means that both the author and the reviewer are anonymous to one another.

If considered appropriate, each submitted manuscript will go through a review procedure involving a minimum of two and a maximum of four reviewers. The number of reviewers is decided by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Editorial Panel. The review may be lengthy, but every effort is taken to ensure that an outcome is communicated to the author as quickly as feasible. Delays are typical since reviewers are working academics with demanding workloads. The writers' patience is much appreciated.

Manuscript submissions can be made through this online system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/seamj