Plagiarism policy
«Didactics» magazine undertakes to publish only original materials, that is, materials that have not been published anywhere and are not reviewed.
«Didactics» magazine uses software to detect cases of duplication and similarity of text in submitted manuscripts: Strike Plagiarist.com from the Polish company Plagiat.pl. Manuscripts in which plagiarism or text borrowings without reference to the original source are found are rejected by the editorial board for publication in the journal.
Plagiarism before publication
«Didactics» magazine will judge any case of plagiarism on its merits. If plagiarism is detected by editors, reviewers or editorial staff at any stage prior to publication of the manuscript - before or after acceptance, during editing or at the page proofing stage - we will notify the author(s) and ask them to either rewrite the text or quote the text exactly and indicate the original source. If the plagiarism is extensive, i.e. if at least 25% of the source material is plagiarized, the article may be rejected and the author's institution/employer notified.
Plagiarism check policy
Manuscripts found to be plagiarized are processed based on the degree of plagiarism in the manuscript: if < 25% plagiarism, the manuscript is immediately sent back to the authors for content revision, and if > 25% plagiarism, the manuscript is rejected. without editorial review. Authors are advised to revise the plagiarized parts of the manuscript and resubmit it as a new manuscript.
The percentage of plagiarism is calculated by software and also estimated manually.
Plagiarism after publication
If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the Journal will investigate. In case of detection of plagiarism, the editorial office of the journal will contact the author's institute and financial institutions. An article that contains plagiarism will be flagged on each page of the PDF file. Depending on the degree of plagiarism, the article may also be officially retracted.
Tips for avoiding plagiarism
- Put words taken verbatim from the source in quotation marks
- Do not change any part of the quote in the context of the sentence
- Use single quotation marks within a quotation
- Use ellipses (space and ellipsis) for the missing part of the quote.
- Use brackets around added words
- Limit the use of quotation marks
Try to paraphrase information or summarize information from different sources using your own words.
Authors are responsible for obtaining author’s permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, figures taken from other authors and/or sources. The permission must be placed at the foot of each figure.
Self-plagiarism
Some authors have written multiple chapters for several different books with only minor changes. Each manuscript is copyrighted at the time of publication. Since the author no longer owns the rights to these words, plagiarism should not be used. Most editors and reviewers argue that self-plagiarism is unethical. Thus, an author may not copy his own material for a new manuscript without the permission of the copyright holder. Alternatives include using citations around short phrases of your own work and citing relevant references.
