Plagiarism Screening

Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are entirely original. If the work and/or words of others have been used, they must be appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism can take many forms, including presenting another author’s work as one’s own, copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another work without proper attribution, or claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in any form constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is strictly unacceptable.

Authors are required to conduct an independent plagiarism check using Turnitin. Only manuscripts with a similarity index of less than 20% are eligible for the peer-review process.

How to Check for Plagiarism

1. To access Turnitin, authors may use their institutional account via the official Turnitin website:
   https://www.turnitin.com

2. If the author’s institution does not provide access to Turnitin, authors may use a publicly managed Turnitin service operated by authorised institutions or academic service providers (e.g. through https://www.turnitin.com or https://www.turnitinuk.com).

3. Upload or paste the manuscript excluding the reference list into Turnitin.

4. Download the Turnitin similarity report in PDF format.

Once the Turnitin report has been obtained in PDF format, authors must insert a screenshot of the result (JPG format) into the Turnitin Check Result section as the third part of the manuscript submission (see the manuscript template).