Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

Journal of Law & Sociocultural Studies-JLSS regards plagiarism as a very serious offense. It is an illegal form of copying. Plagiarism is defined as the unacknowledged use of the work of others as if this were your own original work. Please be aware that we check all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism. We use Turnitin, the leading plagiarism detection system, to check for similarity to previously published documents. The Journal editors will run a plagiarism check for the submitted manuscripts before sending them to reviewers. We do not process any plagiarized content. If a manuscript has over 19% plagiarism based on the result of the Turnitin check, we will send back the manuscript to the author to be revised for the plagiarized contents. All manuscripts containing plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, and dishonesty will be declined.

Examples of plagiarism: 

• Copying and pasting from the Internet and posting somewhere else without proper citation
• Putting your name on another person’s essay or project
• Copying exact wording from another person’s text
• Using another person’s photo, diagram, tables, sounds, or ideas without proper citation
• Presenting research in your own words without providing references
• Purchasing another person’s text and using it as your own
• Presenting ideas in the same format and order as your research source

By submitting the paper for publication to the journal, the Author(s) certify that: 

• I/We are fully aware that plagiarism is wrong
• I/We know that plagiarism is the use of another person’s idea or published work and pretending that it is one’s own.
• I/ We declare that each contribution to your project from the work(s) of other people's published works or unpublished sources has been acknowledged and sources of information have been referenced.
• I/We certify that you are solely responsible for any incomplete reference that may remain in my/our work.

Anti-Plagiarism Declaration:

I have read and understood the JLSS rules on plagiarism. I hereby declare that this piece of written work is the result of my own independent scholarly work and that in all cases material from the work of others (in books, articles, essays, dissertations, and on the internet) is acknowledged, and quotations and paraphrases are clearly indicated. No material other than that listed has been used. This written work has previously not yet been published.