Screening for Plagiarism

Every manuscript is screenedPlagiarism means rejection

Every manuscript submitted to Ingenium Journal of Science, Technology and Business (IJSTB) is screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool or the X Plagiarism Checker tool. The journal will immediately reject papers found to involve plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Ingenium Journal of Science, Technology and Business (IJSTB) wants to ensure that all authors are careful and comply with international standards for academic integrity, particularly on the issue of plagiarism.

What Counts as Plagiarism

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without proper credit to the source. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious academic violation and is unacceptable in international academic publications.

When a Citation Is Required

Specific information
When the author learns specific information (a name, date, place, statistical figure, or other detailed information) from a specific source, a citation is required. This requirement is waived only for general knowledge, where the information is readily available in more than five sources or is common knowledge, for example, the fact that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.
Ideas
When the author takes an idea from another author, a citation is required even if the author then develops the idea further. This might be an idea about how to interpret the data, what methodology to use, or what conclusion to draw. It might be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, authors should cite their sources. Where the author develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source of the idea; in a subsequent sentence, the author can then explain their more developed idea.
Words
When the author takes words from another author, both a citation and quotation marks are required.
Four-word rule: whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source the author has read, quotation marks must be used to denote another author's original words. A citation alone is not sufficient.

Academic Integrity

Ingenium Journal of Science, Technology and Business (IJSTB) takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance from a paper found to violate any of the standards set out above. For further information, potential authors can contact the editorial office.

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