Plagiarism Policy

• Making someone else’s work as your own work.
• Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.
• Giving incorrect information about the sources.
• Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.
• Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.
• Using an image, figures and graphs in your work without receiving proper permission and providing appropriate citation is plagiarism. Authors must take written permission from the owner of the work if necessary for using any of the image, figures etc.

Action for Plagiarism
The Journal performs Similarity check on each manuscript before the peer-review process and following steps are taken based on the similarity content:
If the manuscript is found to have less similarity, it will be returned to the author for revision. Author can resubmit the manuscript after removing all similarity and reworking on the content.
If the similarity content is very high the manuscript will be rejected and cannot be considered for revision and publication. In cases if plagiarism is detected at a later stage all the actions pertaining to the offence of plagiarism will be taken. If the extent of plagiarism detected is too high after publication the paper will be removed.