Plagiarism

• FJSS will check plagiarism with the Turnitin software, as recommended by HEC Pakistan.
• All submissions to FJSS must be free of plagiarism. Authors must declare that their work is original at the time of submission.
• Plagiarism includes copying the same content from another source or article including text, figures, tables or illustrations, without giving credit to the original source.
• Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes and the original source must be cited. However lengthy reuse of text is discouraged.
• If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language has been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.
• Self-Plagiarism or the intentional or unintentional reuse of one’s own copyrighted work without citing the original source is also not acceptable.
• Submissions with plagiarism will be rejected directly without any other justification.