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advisable that the document files related to a manuscript submission should always have the name of the
corresponding author as part of the file name, i.e., “Cilli MS text.doc” , “Cilli MS Figure 1”
etc.
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characters, mathematical symbols, Greek letters, equations, tables, references and images to ensure that
they appear in proper format.
References, figures, tables, chemical structures, etc. should be referred to in the text at the
appropriate places where they have been first discussed. Figure legends/captions should also be
provided.
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acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding author immediately. Any queries therein should be
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MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS:
Manuscript may be divided into the following sections:
Copyright Letter
Title
Title Page
Structured Abstract
Graphical Abstract
Keywords
Text Organization
Current & Future Developments
List of Abbreviations (if any)
Acknowledgements
Conflict of Interest
References
Appendices
Figures/Illustrations (if any)
Chemical Structures (if any)
Tables
Supportive/Supplementary Material (if any)
Copyright Letter:
Authors who publish in Bentham Science print & online journals will transfer copyright to their work to Bentham Science Publishers. Submission of a manuscript to the respective journals implies that all authors have read and agreed to the content of the Copyright Letter or the Terms and Conditions. It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication the authors agree that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors, if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright of their article is transferred to the publishers if and when the article is accepted for publication. Once submitted to the journal, the author will not withdraw their manuscript at any stage prior to publication.
It is mandatory that a signed copyright letter also be submitted along with the manuscript by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed. The article should not contain any such material or information that may be unlawful, defamatory, fabricated, plagiarized, or which would, if published, in any way whatsoever, violate the terms and conditions as laid down in the copyright agreement. Copyright letter can be downloaded from the journal's Web site. Download the Copyright letter.
Title:
The title of the article should be precise and brief and must not be more than 120 characters.
Authors should avoid the use of non-standard abbreviations. The title must be written in title case
except for articles, conjunctions and prepositions.
Title, running title, byline, correspondent footnote and keywords should be written as presented in
original manuscripts.
Short Running Title:
Authors must provide a short ‘running title’ of their manuscript.
Authors’ Names and Affiliations:
The names of the authors should be provided according to previous citations or as the authors would
want them to be published along with the institutional affiliations and current address, telephone,
cell & fax numbers and the email address must be provided, with an asterisk in front of the
name of the principal author. The corresponding author should also be designated and the full
address, telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address must be stated to receive
correspondence and galley proofs.
Structured Abstract:
The abstract of an article should be its clear, concise and accurate summary, having no more than 250
words, and including the explicit sub-headings (as in-line or run-in headings in bold). Use of
abbreviations should be avoided and the references should not be cited in the abstract. Ideally,
each abstract should include the following sub-headings, but these may vary according to
requirements of the article.
Background
Objective
Method
Results
Conclusion
Graphical Abstract:
A graphic must be included with each manuscript for use in the Table of Contents (TOC). This must be
submitted separately as an electronic file (preferred file types are EPS, PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Word,
PowerPoint and CDX etc.). A graphical abstract, not exceeding 30 words along with the illustration,
helps to summarize the contents of the manuscript in a concise pictorial form. It is meant as an aid
for the rapid viewing of the journals' contents and to help capture the readers’ attention. The
graphical abstract may feature a key structure, reaction, equation, etc., that the
manuscript elucidates upon. It will be listed along with the manuscript title, authors’ names and
affiliations in the contents page, typeset within an area of 5 cm by 17 cm, but it will not appear
in the article PDF file or in print.
Graphical Abstracts should be submitted as a separate file (must clearly mention graphical abstract
within the file) online via Bentham's Content Management System by selecting the option
“supplementary material”.
Keywords:
6 to 8 keywords must be provided.
Text Organization:
The main text should begin on a separate page and should be divided into title page, abstract and the
main text. The text may be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed, which should
be followed by the List of Abbreviations, Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgement and Reference
sections. For Research Articles the manuscript should begin with the title page and abstract
followed by the main text, which must be structured into separate sections as Introduction,
Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, List of Abbreviations, Conflict of Interest,
Acknowledgements and References. If your research article reports the results of a controlled health
care intervention such as a Drug Clinical Trial Studies/Case Report, list your trial registry, along
with the unique identifying number. The Review Article should mention any previous important, recent
and old reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive discussion starting with the general
background of the field. It should then go on to discuss the salient features of recent developments
along with relevant patents. The authors should avoid presenting material which has already been
published in a previous review. The authors are advised to present and discuss their observations in
brief. The manuscript style must be uniform throughout the text and 10pt Times New Roman fonts
should be used. The full term for an abbreviation should precede its first appearance in the text
unless it is a standard unit of measurement. Italics should be used for Binomial names of organisms
(Genus and Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar words or phrases. Non-assimilated words from
Latin or other languages should also be italicized e.g. per se, et al., in vitro, in vivo,
in situ, etc.
Standard Protocol on Approvals, Registrations, Patient Consents & Animal Protection:
All clinical investigations must be conducted according to the Declaration
of Helsinki principles. For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human
participants, formal review and approval by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics
committee is required. For research involving animals, the authors should indicate whether the
procedures followed were in accordance with the standards set forth in the eighth edition of
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals_prepub.pdf;
published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.).
A specific declaration of such approval must be made in the copyright letter and in a stand-alone
paragraph at the end of the Methods section especially in the case of human studies where
inclusion of a statement regarding obtaining the written informed consent from each subject or
subject's guardian is a must. The original should be retained by the guarantor or corresponding
author. Editors may request to provide the original forms by fax or email.
Randomized Drug Clinical Trial Studies:
Randomized drug clinical trial studies are biomedical or health-related interventional and/or
observational research studies conducted in phases in human beings who are randomly allocated to
receive or not receive a preventive, therapeutic, or diagnostic intervention that follows a
pre-defined protocol. The study is intended to determine the safety and efficacy of approaches
to disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Authors of randomized controlled trials are encouraged to submit trial protocols along with their
manuscripts. All clinical trials must be registered (before recruitment of the first
participant) at an appropriate online public trial registry that must be independent of
for-profit interest (e.g.,www.clinicaltrials.gov).
If you wish the editor(s) to consider an unregistered trial, please explain briefly why the
trial has not been registered.
All randomized clinical trials should include a flow diagram
and authors should provide a completed randomized trial
checklist (see CONSORT Flow Diagram and Checklist; www.consort-statement.org)
and a trial protocol. For further details, please visit complete
guidelines at:
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html
Studies of diagnostic accuracy must be reported according to STARD guidelines; (http://www.stard-statement.org)
Observational studies (cohort, case-control, or cross-sectional designs) must be
reported according to the STROBE statement, and should be submitted with their
protocols; (www.strobe-statement.org).
Genetic association studies must be reported according to STREGA guidelines; (www.medicine.uottawa.ca)
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses must be reported according to PRISMA guidelines; (www.prisma-statement.org)
To find the reporting guidelines see (http://www.equator-network.org)
Important points to remember while submitting clinical trials:
Each manuscript should clearly state an objective or hypothesis; the design and methods
(including the study setting and dates, patients or participants with inclusion and
exclusion criteria, or data sources, and how these were selected for the study); the
essential features of any interventions; the main outcome measures; the main results of
the study; a comment section placing the results in context with the published
literature and addressing study limitations; and the conclusions. Data included in
research reports must be original.
Trial registry name, registration identification number, and the URL for the registry
should be included at the end of the abstract and also in the space provided on the
online manuscript submission form. If your research article reports the results of a
controlled health care intervention, list the trial registry, along with the unique
identifying number (Please note that there should be no space between the letters and
numbers of your trial registration number). Studies designed for other purposes, such as
to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (e.g., phase 1 trials), are exempted.
All reports of randomized trials should include a section entitled “Randomization and
Masking”, within the Methods section.
The manuscript must include a statement identifying the institutional and/or licensing
committee that has approved the experiments, including any relevant details.
The SI system of units and the recommended international non-proprietary name (rINN) for
drug names must be used. Kindly ensure that the dose, route, and frequency of
administration of any drug you mention are correct.
Please ensure that the clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies follow the
guidelines on good publication practice: (http://www.gpp-guidelines.org)
The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned
requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill the
above-mentioned requirements.
Patent Review Coverage:
Authors who wish to submit a review article on recent patents, should review the most recent and
important patents based on the topic covered. Coverage of novel bioactive compounds, analogs
& targets, techniques and drug design in all areas of DNA and gene sequence should be
emphasized, including the significance of reported patents.
Current & Future Developments:
The review/research article should conclude with a short section called “Current & Future
Developments”. The author(s) will give their opinion on the current and future important
developments on the topic discussed in their article.
Symbols and Units:
Greek symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes and get corrupted or lost
during preparation of a manuscript for publication. To ensure that all special characters used
are embedded in the text, these special characters should be inserted as a symbol but should not
be a result of any format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they will be lost during the
conversion to PDF/XML.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These guidelines provide a set of
recommendations comprising a list of items relevant to their specific research design.
Only ISO symbols, written in italic, should be used for the various parameters. All kinds of
measurements should be reported only in International System of Units (SI). SI units should
always be written in Roman and separated from the numerical value by a space (whatever the
language).
The µ in µg or µm should be in Roman. The symbol for litre is L and that for minute
is min. For temperature, please use only one of °C, °F or K in the entire
manuscript. As the Angström (1Å = 10-10m) is not an SI unit, it should be
replaced by the nanometre (1nm = 10-9 m) or by the picometer (1pm = 10-12
m): 1Å = 0.1nm = 100 pm. Multiple units should be written with negative superscripts (for
example, 25mgµL-1 µs-1). The list of notations should appear
just before the first paragraph of full text.
A list of symbols and units should be provided if used extensively throughout the text.
Conclusion:
A small paragraph summarizing the contents of the article, presenting the final outcome of the
research or proposing further study on the subject, may be given at the end of the article under the
Conclusion section.
List of Abbreviations (If Any):
If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or
a list of abbreviations can be provided.
Acknowledgements:
Any research assistants or other individuals who assisted with the research but are not listed as authors, such as those who carried out the literature review, produced, computerized, and analyzed the data, or helped with the language, writing, or proofreading of the article, or offered any comments or suggestions, should be acknowledged. Briefly, everyone who has contributed significantly to the improvement of the paper should be acknowledged. It is recommended to mention the "Declared None" if there is no acknowledgement for the study.
Guest or honorary authorship based solely on position (e.g. research supervisor, departmental head)
is discouraged.
The specific requirements for authorship have been defined by the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors (ICMJE; www.icmje.org). Examples of authors'
contributions are: 'designed research/study', 'performed research/study', 'contributed important
reagents', 'collected data', 'analyzed data', 'wrote paper' etc. This information must be included in the submitted manuscript as a separate paragraph under the heading 'Authors' Contribution'. The
corresponding author is responsible for obtaining permission from all co-authors for the submission
of any version of the manuscript and for any changes in the authorship.
Conflict of Interest:
Financial contributions and any potential conflict of interest must be clearly acknowledged under the
heading ‘Conflict of Interest’. Authors must list the source(s) of funding for the study. This
should be done for each author.
References:
References should be numbered sequentially [in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same
numerical order in the reference section. All references must be complete and accurate. Online
citations should include the date of access. Journal titles should conform to the present Index
Medicus abbreviations. It is necessary to list all authors if the total number of authors is 6 or
less, If the number of authors exceeds 6 then list the first 3 authors and then use et al. The
reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.
References should be listed in the following Vancouver Style:
Journal:
Boehm M, Nabel EG. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 - A new cardiac regulator. N Engl J
Med 2002; 347: 1795-7.
Book:
Crabtree RH. The organometallic chemistry of the transition metals. 3rd ed.
New York: Wiley & Sons 2001.
Book Chapter:
Yeh DC, Rocco T. In: David EG, Armen HT, Ehrin JA, April WA, Eds. Integrative
cardiovascular pharmacology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2005:
pp. 375-83.
Conference Proceedings:
Jakeman DL, Withers SGE. Carbohydrate bioengineering: interdisciplinary approaches.
Proceedings of the 4th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting.
Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-13, 2001.
Meeting Abstract:
Hoffman BJ. Metabolism: amino acid transporters as targets for therapeutic intervention.
American Chemical Society - 228th National Meeting.
Philadelphia, USA 2004.
Website:
National Library of Medicine. Specialized information services: Toxicology and
environmental health. Available at: sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html
(Accessed on: May 23, 2009).
Thesis:
Mackel H. Capturing the spectra of silicon solar cells. PhD Thesis, The Australian
National University, Canberra, Australia, December 2004.
Patent:
As a service, the Publishers can provide each author a certain number of relevant patents to
assist them in writing their article. All patent application references will be provided by the
author and will be published as it is.
Patent Reference Style:
All inventors’ names of the cited patents must be stated with the title, publication number
and the year of publication e.g. Chesnut JD, Carrino J, Leong L, Madden K, Gleeson MAG, Fan
J, Brasch MA, Cheo D, Hartley JL, Byrd DRN, Temple GF. Methods and compositions for
synthesis of nucleic acid molecules using multiple recognition sites. US7198924, 2007.
Citation of the patents will be according to the international convention as follows:
WO Patents: 1978-2003
Miranda J, Sablotsky S. Solubility parameter based drug delivery system and
method for altering drug saturation concentration. WO9300058, 1993.
Huang D, Qi DF. Protopanaxadiol and protopanaxatriol and their use as synergistic
anti-cancer agents. WO03024459, 2003.
WO Patents: 2004 onwards
Balzarini J, Liekens S. Anti-cancer combination therapy. WO2009138507, 2009.
US Patent Applications: 2001 onwards
Strelchenok O. New compounds for the treatment of cancer. US20010018425, 2001.
Landau BR, Landau S. Treatment of cancer with 2-Deoxygalactose. US20090163442,
2009.
Issued/Granted US Patents:
Sakamoto I, Takagi K. Anti-cancer device. US4536387, 1985.
Baguley BC, Ching L-M, Philpott M. Cancer treatment by combination therapy.
US7510830, 2009.
EP Patents:
Rimm DL, Wardlaw SC, Levine RA, Fiedler P. Method for the detection,
identification, enumeration and confirmation of circulating cancer cells and/or
hemotologic progenitor cells in whole blood. EP0919812A2, 1999.
Miller TM, Jamison JM. Non-toxic anti-cancer drug combining ascorbate, magnesium
and a naphthoquinone. EP2034835A2, 2009.
Some important points to remember:
Superscripts in the in-text citations and reference section should be avoided.
Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications (which can only be included if prior
permission has been obtained) should not be given in the reference section but they may be
mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes.
The authors are encouraged to use a recent version of EndNote (version 5 and above) or
Reference Manager (version 10) when formatting their reference list, as this allows
references to be automatically extracted.
Tables (If Any):
Data tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word table format.
Each table should include a title/caption being explanatory in itself with respect to the
details discussed in the table. Detailed legends may then follow.
Table number in bold font i.e. Table 1, should follow a title.
The title should be in small case with the first letter in caps. A full stop should be
placed at the end of the title.
Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according to their appropriate placement in the
submitted manuscript.
Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring that the borders of each
cell are displayed as black lines.
Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially in order of their citation in the
body of the text.
If a reference is cited in both the table and text, please insert a lettered footnote in the
table to refer to the numbered reference in the text.
Figures/Illustrations (if any):
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for preparing illustrations for publication in
Recent Advances in DNA & Gene Sequence. If the figures are found to be
sub-standard, then the manuscripts will be rejected and the authors offered the option of figure
improvement professionally by Eureka Science.
The costs for such improvement will be charged to the authors.
Illustrations should be provided as separate files, embedded in the text file, and must be numbered
consecutively in the order of their appearance. Each figure should include only a single
illustration which should be cropped to minimize the amount of space occupied by the illustration.
If a figure is in separate parts, all parts of the figure must be provided in a single composite
illustration file.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate, as well as high-resolution component
files.
Scaling/Resolution:
Line Art image type is normally an image based on lines and text. It does not contain tonal or
shaded areas. The preferred file format should be TIFF or EPS, with the color mode being
Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200 dpi.
Halftone image type is a continuous tone photograph containing no text. It should have the
preferred file format TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination image type is an image containing halftone , text or line art elements. It should
have the preferred file format TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of
500-900 dpi.
Formats:
Illustrations may be submitted in the following file formats:
Illustrator
EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
PDF (also especially suitable for diagrams)
PNG (preferred format for photos or images)
Microsoft Word (version 5 and above; figures must be a single page)
PowerPoint (figures must be a single page)
TIFF
JPEG (conversion should be done using the original file)
BMP
CDX (ChemDraw)
TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham Science does not process figures submitted in GIF format.
For TIFF or EPS figures with considerably large file size restricting the file size in online
submissions is advisable. Authors may therefore convert to JPEG format before submission as this
results in significantly reduced file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality.
JPEG is a ‘lossy’ format. However, in order to maintain acceptable image quality, it is
recommended that JPEG files are saved at High or Maximum quality.
Zipit or Stuffit tools should not be used to compress files prior to submission as the resulting
compression through these tools is always negligible.
Please refrain from supplying:
Graphics embedded in word processor (spreadsheet, presentation) document.
Optimized files optimized for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG) because of the low
resolution.
Files with too low a resolution.
Graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware or shareware, capable of converting to
and from different graphics formats, including PNG.
General tools for image conversion include Graphic Converter on the Macintosh, Paint Shop Pro,
for Windows, and ImageMagick, available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
Bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted to EPS as they result in a much larger
file size than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, and poor quality. EPS should only be used
for images produced by vector-drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. Most
vector-drawing applications can be saved in, or exported as, EPS format. If the images were
originally prepared in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, original Office files
should be directly uploaded to the site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format of
low quality.
Color Figures/Illustrations:
The cost for each individual page of color figures/plates/illustrations is US$ 920
.
Color figures should be supplied in CMYK and not RGB colors.
Chemical Structures (if any):
Chemical structures MUST be prepared in ChemDraw (CDX file) and provided as separate file.
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[As according to the ACS style sheet]
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Drawing Settings:
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| Chain angle |
120° |
| Bond spacing |
18% of width |
| Fixed length |
14.4 pt (0.500cm, 0.2in) |
| Bold width |
2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in) |
| Line width |
0.6 pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in) |
| Margin width |
1.6 pt (0.096cm) |
| Hash spacing |
2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in) |
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Text settings:
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| Font |
Times New Roman |
| Size |
8 pt |
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Under the Preference Choose:
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| Units |
points |
| Tolerances |
3 pixels |
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Under Page Setup Use:
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| Paper |
US letter |
| Scale |
100% |
Supportive/Supplementary Material (if any):
We do encourage to append supportive material, for example a PowerPoint file containing a talk about
the study, a PowerPoint file containing additional screenshots, a Word, RTF, or PDF document showing
the original instrument(s) used, a video, or the original data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access
Db files etc.) provided it is inevitable or endorsed by the journal's Editor.
Supportive/Supplementary Material intended for publication must be numbered and referred to in the
manuscript but should not be a part of the submitted paper. In-text citations as well
as a section with the heading "Supportive/Supplementary Material" before the "References" section
should be provided. Here, list all Supportive/Supplementary Material and include a brief caption
line for each file describing its contents.
Any additional files will be linked to the final published article in the form supplied by the
author, but will not be displayed within the paper. They will be made available in exactly the same
form as originally provided only on our website. Please also make sure that each
additional file is a single table, figure or movie (please do not upload linked worksheets or PDF
files larger than one sheet). Supportive/Supplementary material must be provided in a single zipped
file not larger than 4 MB.
Authors must clearly indicate if these files are not for publication but meant for the
reviewers'/editors' perusal only.
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We refer to 'third party content' as any work that authors haven't developed themselves and have copied
or adapted from other sources. Text, figures, photographs, tables, screenshots, and other items may be
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PLAGIARISM PREVENTION:
Bentham Science Publishers uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar
text in submitted manuscripts. iThenticate software checks content against a database of periodicals,
the Internet, and a comprehensive article database. It generates a similarity report, highlighting the
percentage overlap between the uploaded article and the published material. Any instance of content
overlap is further scrutinized for suspected plagiarism according to the publisher’s Editorial Policies.
Bentham Science allows an overall similarity of 20% for a manuscript to be considered for publication.
The similarity percentage is further checked keeping the following important points in view:
Low Text Similarity:
The text of every submitted manuscript is checked by using the Content Tracking mode in iThenticate.
The Content Tracking mode ensures that manuscripts with an overall low percentage similarity (but
which may have a higher similarity from a single source) are not overlooked. If the similarity level
is significantly high, then the manuscript is returned to the author for paraphrasing the text and
citing the original source of the copied material.
It is important to mention that the text taken from different sources with an overall low similarity
percentage will be considered as a plagiarized content if the majority of the article is a
combination of copied material.
High Text Similarity:
There may be some manuscripts with an overall low similarity percentage, but a higher percentage from
a single source. For instance, a manuscript may have less than 20% overall similarity but there may
be 15 % similar text taken from a single article; the similarity index in such cases is higher than
the approved limit for a single source. Authors are advised to thoroughly rephrase the similar text
and properly cite the original source to avoid plagiarism and copyright violation.
Types of Plagiarism:
We all know that scholarly manuscripts are written after a thorough review of previously published
articles. It is therefore, not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and
plagiarism. However, the following important features can assist in identifying different kinds of
plagiarized content. These are:
Reproduction of others words, sentences, ideas or findings as one’s own without proper
acknowledgement.
Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism. It is an author’s use of a previous
publication in another paper without proper citation and acknowledgment of the original
source.
Paraphrasing poorly: Copying complete paragraphs and modifying a few words without changing
the structure of original sentences or changing the sentence structure but not the words.
Verbatim copying of text without putting quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of
the original author.
Properly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered as
unintentional plagiarism. Similarly, manuscripts with language somewhere between
paraphrasing and quoting are not acceptable. Authors should either paraphrase properly or
quote and in both cases, cite the original source.
Higher similarity in the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion and
conclusion sections indicates that the manuscript may contain plagiarized text. Authors can
easily explain these parts of the manuscript in many ways. However, technical terms and
sometimes standard procedures cannot be rephrased; therefore Editors must review these
sections carefully before making a decision.
Plagiarism in Published Manuscripts:
Published manuscripts which are found to contain plagiarized text are retracted from the journal
website after careful investigation and approval by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. A
‘Retraction Note’ as well as a link to the original article is published on the electronic version
of the plagiarized manuscript and an addendum with retraction notification in the journal concerned.
For further details, please visit: https://www.eurekaselect.com/research-misconduct
