Plagiarism Policy

Originality and plagiarism

• The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that work and/or words has been appropriately cited or quoted. Copyright material (e.g. data, tables, figures or extensive quotations) should be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement.
• Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work.
• Author should not submit and publish the same manuscript to more than one publication concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing same research in more than one publication.

• Authors should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in research work.

  Important note: editors or the publisher may use software to screen for plagiarism.