Plagiarism Notice

12 Waiheru recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable for all authors and establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified by anti-plagiarism software detection (we use turnitin.com ) in an article submitted for publication. The article must be below 25% of plagiarism.

 

"Plagiarism is copying another person's text or ideas and passing the copied material as your work. You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course."

 

This definition of plagiarism applies to copied text and ideas:

1. Regardless of the source of the copied text or idea.

2. Regardless of whether the author(s) of the text or idea that you have copied that text or idea from another source.

3. Regardless of whether or not the authorship of the text or idea that you copy is known

4. Regardless of the nature of your text (journal paper/article, web page, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc) into which you copy the text or idea

5. Regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material permits for the material to be copied; and

6. Regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).

 

When the Plagiarism Checker software identifies plagiarism, the Editorial Board is responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the article in agreement with the following guidelines:

 

Minor Plagiarism

A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized with significant data or ideas from other papers or publications.

Punishment: The authors are given a warning and requested to change the manuscript and properly cite the sources.

 

Intermediate Plagiarism

A significant data, paragraph, or sentence of an article is plagiarized without proper citation to the source.

Punishment: The submitted article is automatically rejected.

 

Severe Plagiarism

A large portion of an article is plagiarized and involves many aspects, such as reproducing original results (data, formulation, equation, law, statement, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.

Punishment: The paper will be automatically rejected, and the authors will be forbidden from submitting further articles to the journal.