Plagiarism

All manuscripts submitted to JLSPA: Journal of Law, Social, and Public Affairs must be original scholarly works and free from plagiarism. Authors are responsible for ensuring that all ideas, statements, arguments, data, legal materials, documents, theories, and other sources originating from previous works are properly acknowledged and cited.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use reliable plagiarism-detection software to check the similarity level of their manuscripts before submission.

The editorial team of JLSPA: Journal of Law, Social, and Public Affairs conducts similarity screening for submitted manuscripts using  iThenticate  or other reliable similarity-detection tools. Similarity reports are evaluated carefully by the Editorial Board, taking into account the source, extent, and nature of textual overlap rather than relying solely on the overall similarity percentage.

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism in any form, including:

  1. direct copying of text without proper citation or attribution;

  2. inappropriate paraphrasing of another author’s work;

  3. mosaic or patchwork plagiarism;

  4. using another person’s ideas, arguments, data, or findings without proper acknowledgement;

  5. self-plagiarism or substantial reuse of previously published material without appropriate citation or disclosure;

  6. duplicate or redundant publication; and

  7. improper citation or deliberate concealment of original sources.

In legal and policy research, similarity resulting from the appropriate quotation of laws, regulations, court decisions, official government documents, policy documents, and other primary legal sources will be evaluated according to the context and proper citation practices.

Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism, excessive or unjustified similarity, unattributed textual overlap, inappropriate reuse of previously published material, or improper citation may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected at any stage of the editorial process.

If plagiarism or other serious originality concerns are discovered after publication, JLSPA: Journal of Law, Social, and Public Affairs may take appropriate editorial action, including issuing a correction, expression of concern, or retraction in accordance with the journal’s publication ethics policy.