Screening for Plagiarism
Every manuscript submitted to Islamic Studies in the World will be screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool. Islamic Studies in the World will immediately reject papers found to contain plagiarism or self-plagiarism, and the manuscript will be returned to the authors for correction.
The maximum overall similarity index accepted is 15%, with no single source contributing more than 10% of that similarity.
Islamic Studies in the World wants to ensure that all authors are careful and comply with international standards for academic integrity, particularly on the issue of plagiarism.
Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without proper credit. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious academic violation and unacceptable in international academic publications.
When the author learns specific information (a name, date, place, statistical number, or other detailed information) from a specific source, a citation is required.
When the author takes an idea from another author, a citation is required even if the author then develops the idea further. This might be an idea about how to interpret the data — either what methodology to use or what conclusion to draw — or about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, authors should cite their sources. In cases where the author develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source first, and then in a subsequent sentence, explain the more developed idea.
When the author takes words from another author, citation and quotation marks are required. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source the author has read, quotation marks must be used to denote another author's original words — a citation alone is no longer sufficient. This rule does not apply to direct quotations of the Qur'an or Hadith cited according to standard scholarly reference conventions (surah/verse or Hadith collection and number), which are not themselves subject to plagiarism screening; however, the surrounding explanatory text, interpretation, and argumentation must be original or properly quoted and cited like any other text.
Islamic Studies in the World takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance from a paper found to violate any of the standards set out above. For further information, potential authors can contact the editorial office at journal@adra.ac.id.
