Anti-Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts in which we detect plagiarism are treated according to the degree of plagiarism. All manuscripts with >15% plagiarism are rejected without exception.

If more than 15% plagiarism is detected, it is considered highly unlikely that the authors have revised the manuscript. Authors may rectify and submit a corrected version.

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part, without proper citation in APA format. The originality of manuscripts submitted to the journal can be checked by means of an anti-plagiarism software tool.

Plagiarism consists of passing off ideas, words and other creative expressions as one's own. Plagiarism takes several forms.

Copying elements of another author's work, such as figures, tables or illustrations that are not in the public domain, or intentionally copying or using textual phrases without citing the source.

The only exception will be texts by other authors marked in quotation marks and duly cited with their source, a mechanism that will be used only when the textual citation is strictly necessary. Therefore, the authors undertake to guarantee that the article submitted is an original-unpublished work and that it does not infringe the rights of third parties.