Plagiarism Check

All manuscripts submitted to LITERATUR: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra are screened for plagiarism (similarity) using Turnitin. The journal will reject manuscripts found to involve plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before a manuscript is sent to reviewers, a member of the editorial team checks its similarity using Turnitin. Manuscripts submitted to LITERATUR: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra must have a similarity index of no more than 20%. Manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned to the authors or declined without review.

Plagiarism is the presentation of another person’s ideas or words as one’s own without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or through failure to cite sources properly. Plagiarism can take many forms, from verbatim copying to paraphrasing another person’s work. To determine whether an author has committed plagiarism, the journal considers the following situations:

1. Verbatim copying. An author copies another author’s work word for word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledgment, or citation of the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source with the manuscript suspected of plagiarism.
2. Substantial copying. An author reproduces a substantial part of another author’s work without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. The term “substantial” refers to both quality and quantity and is often used in the context of intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
3. Paraphrasing. An author takes ideas, words, or phrases from a source and rewords them into new sentences. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not cite the source properly or fails to acknowledge the original work or author. This form of plagiarism is more difficult to identify.
4. Self-plagiarism. An author reuses substantial parts of their own previously published work, including text, data, or findings, without proper citation, or submits the same work to more than one publication.