Symbiosis Civicus apply Zero tolerance towards plagiarism and therefore, establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication in Jurnal Symbiosis civicus.

All submitted papers will be checked for their similarity by turnitin.

When plagiarism is identified, the Principal Editor responsible for the review of this paper will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:

Similarity level

Symbiosis Civicus practices Zero tolerance towards plagiarism. We use turnitin to evaluate the similarity index, and then the editor decides on the case of possible plagiarism (A similarity report will be provided to the author). The editorial board has passed the following actions:

1. Similarity Index above 45%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted).
2. Similarity Index (16-39%):Send to the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
3. Similarity index Less than 25%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).

 In cases 2 and 3, The authors should revise the article carefully, add required citations, and paraphrase the outsourced text well. And resubmit the article with a new turnitin report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity less than 25%.