Plagiarism Policy

Authors must ensure that they write and submit only entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that such work and/or words are properly cited or quoted. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the manuscript must also be cited.

Plagiarism can occur in many forms, ranging from “passing off” another person’s work as the author’s own, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another person’s work without proper attribution, to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal are screened for plagiarism using Turnitin with a similarity threshold of less than 25%.