Anti-Plagiarism Policy
Simultaneously to the submission of an article, the authors must present the declaration of originality, which implies that the manuscript has not been previously published or sent to other journals simultaneously for evaluation. In addition, they are requested to declare that they have complied with the General Guidelines for Authors, which require that the articles to be submitted must be original.
When the journal sends the manuscript to the reviewers, since they are the ones who know the sources on the subject, they are asked to take into account possible plagiarism practices in order to detect them.
The following instances constitute plagiarism:
direct plagiarism
- Authorship is omitted and what was taken is not indicated with quotation marks.
- Minimal changes are made to the text of another (sentence structure is modified, lower case is replaced by upper case or vice versa, synonyms are used, etc.) and it is presented as original.
Plagiarism due to inappropriate use of paraphrasing
- Although authorship is noted, plagiarism occurs because the original text is reproduced with a few changes that are not paraphrasing.
Complex plagiarism using a reference
- The original authorship reference exists, but the source pages are inaccurately indicated.
Paraphrasing in which long texts are summarized, but with little or no indication that they are paraphrasing. - Absence of quotation marks in words and phrases of the original text that are reproduced verbatim.
Plagiarism with single quotes
- It is committed when a textual quotation continues to be reproduced once the quotation marks have been closed or when it is omitted that the previous sentences correspond to the same quotation.
The “self-plagiarism” or recycling fraud
- The appearance of a job is changed and it is presented as if it were a different one.
- The indication that the work is being recycled is omitted." (Marta Eugenia Rojas Porras, "Plagiarism in academic texts", in Educare Electronic Magazine, Vol. 16, N° 2, [55-66], ISSN: 1409-42 -58, May-August, 2012, available at http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/1941/194124286004.pdf)
To deal with cases of plagiarism, the following procedures are followed:
If plagiarism is detected, the journal editors are informed and their comments are requested.
Evidence of the detected plagiarism is sent to the author and a response will be requested.
If the response is not satisfactory, the manuscript will not be submitted for external evaluation and the journal will not receive any more articles from the authors. In turn, if applicable, the medium in which the original plagiarized article was published (whether it is self-plagiarism or third-party copies) will be informed.
The journal also uses online Plagiarism Detectors:
Plagiarisma
Paste the text directly or load a Word, Txt, Pdf file and you will find duplicate content in various search engines. https://plagiarisma.net/en/
Plagiarism Checker
Investigate content via url, text or file upload. It is a very effective and easy to use tool. https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
Docode
Plagiarism detection tool created by the University of Chile with which you can check up to 3500 words in its free version. It works by uploading files to your website. https://www.docode.cl/
In the Google search engine you can also check the existence of the contents, but it will give you results only if it matches exactly. Search in quotes for the desired phrase. https://www.google.es/
