Plagiarism
Papers submitted to MARJINAL EDU: Journal of Social, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Education will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck/iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. MARJINAL EDU will immediately reject papers found to involve plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, they are first checked for similarity/plagiarism by a member of the editorial team. Papers submitted to MARJINAL EDU must have a similarity level of less than 20%.

Plagiarism is the presentation of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or due to failure to cite sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing another’s work. To properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

• An author can literally copy another author’s work—word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledgment, or citing the original source. This can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript suspected of plagiarism.

• Substantial copying means reproducing a significant part of another author’s work without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. The term substantial can be understood in terms of both quality and quantity, often used in the context of intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the entire work.

• Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is more difficult to detect.