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The full manuscript has to be submitted online via Bentham's Manuscript Processing System (MPS) at / View Submission Instructions However, technical terms and sometimes standard procedures cannot be rephrased therefore Editors must review these sections carefully before making a decision.Īn online submission and tracking service via Internet facilitates a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts. Authors can easily explain these parts of the manuscript in many ways. Higher similarity in the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion and conclusion sections indicates that the manuscript may contain plagiarized text. Authors should either paraphrase properly or quote and in both cases, cite the original source.
Similarly, manuscripts with language somewhere between paraphrasing and quoting are not acceptable. Properly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered as unintentional plagiarism. Verbatim copying of text without putting quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of the original author. Paraphrasing poorly: Copying complete paragraphs and modifying a few words without changing the structure of original sentences or changing the sentence structure but not the words. It is an author’s use of a previous publication in another paper without proper citation and acknowledgment of the original source. Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism. Reproduction of others words, sentences, ideas or findings as one’s own without proper acknowledgement. However, the following important features can assist in identifying different kinds of plagiarized content. It is therefore, not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and plagiarism.
We all know that scholarly manuscripts are written after a thorough review of previously published articles.