Plagiarism is an unethical act that involves using someone else's prior ideas, processes, results, or words without proper acknowledgment of the original author and source. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author utilizes a significant portion of their own previously published work without appropriate references. This includes publishing the same manuscript in multiple journals or modifying a previously published manuscript with new data.

Originality

By submitting authors manuscript to the journal it is understood that it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the IJMSAR journal. Manuscripts submitted to the IJMSAR journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software.

Plagiarism misrepresents ideas, words, and other creative expression as one's own. Plagiarism represents the violation of copyright. Plagiarism appears in various forms.

1. Copying the same content from the other source. Purposely using portions of another author's paper or content.

2. Copying elements of another author's paper, such as figures, tables, equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.

3. Using exact text downloads form the internet.

4. Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources.

Accidental or Unintentional Originality

One may not even know that they are plagiarizing. It is the authors whose responsibility is to make certain that they understand the differences between quoting and paraphrasing, as well as the proper way to cite material.