The editorial board of Jurnal Peduli : Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stipulating specific actions (penalties) upon identifying plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication. Jurnal Peduli : Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat will use originality checking software from Plagiarism Checker Pro as a tool to detect text similarities in article manuscripts and final ready-to-publish articles. A maximum similarity rate of 25% is allowed for an article to be processed further. If we find more than a 25% similarity index, the article will be returned to the author to be revised and resubmitted.

Definition

Plagiarism involves "the use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Policy

Articles must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source. Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (here defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief is responsible for the review of the article and will approve measures according to the level of plagiarism detected in the article in accordance with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

• Minor Plagiarism: A short sentence or short paragraph from another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper or publication.
  Penalty: A warning is given to the author and a request to change the manuscript and properly cite the original source.
• Intermediate Plagiarism: A significant data, paragraph, or sentence from an article is plagiarized without proper citation to the original source.
  Penalty: The submitted article is automatically rejected.
• Severe Plagiarism: A large portion of an article is plagiarized which involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulations, equations, laws, statements, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.
  Penalty: The article is automatically rejected and the author is forbidden to submit further articles to the journal.