Plagiarism policy

All the submitted manuscripts for publication are checked for plagiarism after submission and before starting review. The manuscripts in which the plagiarism is detected are handled based on the extent of the plagiarism. >5%

Plagiarism: The manuscript will be given an ID and the manuscript is sent to author for content revision.

>20% Plagiarism: The manuscript will pass to review.

5- 30% Plagiarism: The manuscript will not be given an ID and the manuscript is sent back to author for content revision.
>40% Plagiarism: The manuscript will be rejected without the review. The authors are advised to revise the manuscript and resubmit the manuscript. However, authors are welcome to do the required revisions and submit the manuscript as a new submission.

ORIGINALITY

By submitting Author(s) manuscript to the journal it is understood that it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal. Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software.

Plagiarism misrepresents ideas, words, and other creative expression as one's own. Plagiarism represents the violation of copyright law. Plagiarism appears in various forms.

1.  Copying the exact content from the other source. Purposely using portions of another author's paper.

  2. Copying elements of another author's paper, such as figures, tables, equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.

3. Using text downloaded from the internet.

4.  Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources.

 5.  In the case of a publication being submitted that was originally published in another language, the title, date and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience. 

6. In case author wants to use material from the other work then it is mandatory to cite the same in references. Else the author needs to change the language completely and use his/ her own language.