Plagiarism Checker

Journal of Information Technology (JINTECH) employs Turnitin as a detection tool for plagiarism screening. It will prevent potential misconduct and ensure that all manuscripts submitted to share are from original works. The editor will undergo the manuscript screening prior to forwarding it to the reviewer/s. Although the editor will make the last judgment, the similarity level should be no more than 30%.

As cited from the University of Oxford, plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgment. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed, or electronic form, is covered under this definition. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of others.

To properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

Verbatim (word for word) quotation without explicit acknowledgment
Quotations must always be identified as such by using either quotation marks or indentation and with complete referencing of the cited sources. It must always be apparent to the reader which parts are your own independent work and where you have drawn on someone else’s ideas and language.

Cutting and pasting from the Internet without clear acknowledgment
Information derived from the Internet must be adequately referenced and included in the bibliography. It is important to carefully evaluate all material found on the Internet, as it is less likely to have been through the same scholarly peer-review process as published sources.

Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing the work of others by altering a few words and changing their order or by closely following the structure of their argument is plagiarism if you do not give due acknowledgment to the author whose work you are using.

Inaccurate citation
It is important to cite correctly, according to the conventions of your discipline. As well as listing your sources (i.e., in a bibliography), you must indicate where a quoted passage comes from using a footnote or an in-text reference. Additionally, you should not include anything in your references or bibliography that you have not actually consulted. If you cannot gain access to a primary source, you must make it clear in your citation that your knowledge of the work has been derived from a secondary text (for example, Bradshaw, D. Title of Book, discussed in Wilson, E., Title of Book (London, 2004), p. 189). 

Auto-plagiarism
You must not submit work for assessment that you have already submitted (partially or in full). Where earlier work by you is citable, i.e., it has already been published, you must reference it clearly. Identical pieces of work submitted concurrently will also be considered to be auto-plagiarism.