Plagiarism Policy
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It is the author(s)’ responsibility to ascertain that s/he has submitted an entirely original work, giving due credit, by virtue of proper citations, to the works and/or words of others where they are used.
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Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is not acceptable.
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Material quoted verbatim from the author (s)’ previously published work or other sources must be placed in quotation marks.
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As per HEC policy, in case the manuscript has been found to have a similarity index of more than 19% it will either be rejected or left at the discretion of the editor for purposes of conditional acceptance.
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Authors may submit their article turnitin report as ‘supplementary material’ during paper submission for proof.