Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism, where someone assumes another's ideas, words, or other creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation of scientific ethics. Plagiarism may also involve a violation of copyright law, punishable by legal action.

Plagiarism includes the following:

- Word for word, or almost word for word copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragment (for example, using quotation marks);

- Copying equations, figures or tables from someone else's paper without properly citing the source and/or without permission from the original author or the copyright holder.

Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality of their submitted manuscripts. All sources, including the authors’ own previously published work, must be appropriately cited and, where applicable, quoted accurately.

Please note that all submissions are thoroughly checked for plagiarism. To support the maintenance of academic standards, the Religious Education Journal (REJ) employs plagiarism detection software, such as iThenticate, as part of its manuscript screening process.

In instances where the originality assessment raises concerns, editors reserve the right to request clarifications, appropriate acknowledgements, or substantive revisions prior to advancing the manuscript in the editorial review process. Failure to comply with these requests will result in rejection of the manuscript.

In case plagiarism is discovered in a paper that has already been published by the journal, it will be retracted in accordance with the procedure described under Retraction policy.

 

Refer to the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy for further details on authors’ responsibilities.