Plagiarism Policy
PLAGIARISM POLICY & PAPER EDITING TOOLS
The submission must not have been previously published, nor should it be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also have a strict policy against plagiarism. The plagiarism is checked through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool. All submissions will be checked by online software before being sent to reviewers. Editor in Chief having the right to publish or reject the article in pre or post publication Paper editing is the process of selecting and preparing written documents which is used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete work.
Editing may include the correction of grammatical mistakes, misspellings, mistyping, incorrect punctuation, inconsistencies in usages, poorly structured sentences, wrong scientific terms and dimensions and correcting errors in citations. Following are some of the useful editing tools available in web, which the authors may make use of while submitting the articles.
- turnitin.com
- afterthedeadline.com
- grammarly.com
Plagiarism, even though in some cases may be result of poor referencing practice, when it is deliberate and systematic, plagiarism amounts to cheating. Plagiarism consist of a person/s claiming another person’s ideas or findings or work as one’s own by copying or reproducing the work without due acknowledgement of the source. Plagiarism amounts to pilfering of intellectual property.Plagiarism may occur several forms like presenting substantial extracts from books, journal articles, thesis and other published or unpublished work without properly indicating the source of the material, using close paraphrasing of sentences or whole paragraphs without due acknowledgement in the form of reference to the original work, exactly copying and pasting of data, tables, figures from other publications without acknowledging the source and closely replicating the structure of someone else’s one’s own argument without apparent reference and due credit to the source.
Many useful websites are available which will help to check the plagiarism. Some of the websites offer the check for plagiarism online and some needed to purchased. Some of the websites are
- www.searchenginereports.net/articlecheck.aspx
- www.articlechecker.com/
- www.plagtracker.com/upload/#
Disclaimer: Please note that editing of a manuscript by using these tools in no way implies that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted by the publishers or any other publication. We neither endorse or authenticate nor take responsibility for the usefulness of services which are provided these commercial or non-profit tools. Use of these tools is entirely on discretion of authors. We declare that we do not have any commercial interest in listing of these tools
