Authors, reviewers and editors of JIDS must declare any interest that could appear to influence their judgement; a declared interest does not by itself disqualify anyone.

A conflict of interest may be financial (funding, employment, consultancy, shares, fees) or non-financial (personal relationships, political, religious or ideological commitments, academic rivalry, or a role in the policy or institution being studied).

Authors

• Every manuscript must contain a Conflict of Interest Statement before the References. If there is none, use: "The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."
• Research funded by a government agency, political party, company or NGO must name the funder and state its role, if any, in design, data collection, analysis or the decision to publish.
• Authors who hold office in, or are employed by, the institution they study must say so.

Reviewers

• Reviewers must decline an invitation when they work at the same institution as an author, have co-authored with an author in the past three years, have a close personal relationship with an author, or have a competing manuscript under consideration.
• If a conflict is discovered after accepting, the reviewer must inform the editor at once.

Editors

• An editor with a conflict on a manuscript does not handle it; another editor takes the decision.
• Manuscripts by members of the editorial board, including those from Universitas Pendidikan Nasional, go through the same double-blind review, and the author has no access to the review process or the decision.
• The journal publishes no more than one article per issue authored by a member of the editorial team.

Undeclared conflicts discovered later are handled under the Corrections & Retractions Policy.