Jurnal SPORTIF: Jurnal Penelitian Pembelajaran requires all research involving human participants to comply with applicable ethical principles and standards.
Research involving human participants, including students, teachers, athletes, coaches, or other individuals, must obtain ethical approval from an appropriate institutional ethics committee or authorized ethics review body when required. Ethical approval must be obtained before data collection begins.
Authors must include an Ethical Approval Statement in the manuscript, preferably in the Methods section, specifying the name of the approving institution or ethics committee, approval/reference number, and date of approval, where applicable.
Research involving human participants must be conducted in accordance with recognized ethical principles for research involving human participants. Authors must ensure voluntary participation, confidentiality and protection of participants' data, and respect for participants' rights and well-being. Informed consent must be obtained from participants where applicable. For participants who are minors, informed consent must be obtained from their parents or legal guardians, and assent from the participants should be obtained where appropriate.
If ethical approval was not required for a particular study, authors must clearly state this in the manuscript and provide an appropriate justification. Where an exemption was granted by an institution or ethics committee, the name of the institution or committee and relevant exemption information should be provided.

Examples of Ethical Approval Statements
Authors may use the following statements as appropriate:

Research with ethical approval:
“This study received ethical approval from [name of institution/ethics committee] (Approval No. [number], [date]). Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to data collection.”

Research exempt from ethical approval:
“Ethical approval was not required for this study because [brief reason]. The study was conducted in accordance with applicable ethical principles, and informed consent was obtained from all participants where applicable.”

Research not involving human participants:
“This research did not involve human participants and therefore did not require ethical approval.”