Plagiarism Policy

REB&S Journal does not allow the publication of plagiarized articles. All articles are scanned through anti-plagiarism software. The anti-plagiarism report will be provided to authors with their article revisions.

Authors are requested to check plagiarism at their end also to avoid any unpleasant situation.

Please respect the work of other researchers by proper quotation and citation in your article.

If you find copyright infringement of your work in any article published in REB&S journal, please inform us with adequate evidence to take necessary action. Please contact us in case of plagiarism related queries.

POSSIBLE EDITOR'S ACTIONS FOR HIGH SIMILARITY INDEX

The editorial board has approved the following actions:

1. Similarity Index greater than 50% --> Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing).

2. Similarity Index greater than 15% --> Editor may send the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all similarity sites and make a good paraphrase even if citation is provided).

3. Similarity index Less than 15% --> May be accepted or citation improvement may be required.

In cases 2 and 3: Authors should revise the article carefully, add the required citations and make a good paraphrase of the externalized text. And resubmit the article to be analyzed with the anti-plagiarism software until it shows NO PLAGIARISM and a similarity of less than 15%.