Screening for Plagiarism

Articles submitted to the Community Development Journal : Journal of Community Service will be screened using Turnitin software, with a maximum of 30% similarity permitted.

Plagiarism includes:

1. Word-for-word plagiarism : borrowing another writer's language word for word but not putting it in quotation marks or quoting it correctly.

2. Source plagiarism : uses someone else's ideas without explicitly giving credit or citing the source.
3. Plagiarism of authorship : presents another author's work as if it were his own.
4. Self-plagiarism : authors publishing articles in more than one journal by recycling papers. An important issue regarding self-plagiarism is that when citing one's own work, significant changes must be made to the new article. Previous articles should only contain a small portion of each new article produced. So readers will receive new information, which may be inspired by but different from previous articles.