Screening for Plagiarism

Manuscripts submitted to Sanggitarupa will be screened using the Turnitin similarity detection tool. The team will immediately reject papers that suggest plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Sanggitarupa wants to ensure that all authors exercise due care and adhere to international standards for academic integrity, particularly regarding plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without properly crediting that source. Even if unintentional, plagiarism remains a serious academic offense and is unacceptable in international academic publications.

Citations are required when an author learns specific information (names, dates, places, statistics, or other detailed information) from a specific source. (This is only excused in cases of common knowledge, where the data is readily available in more than five sources or is common knowledge, for example, the fact that Indonesia is an archipelagic country.)

When an author takes an idea from another author, citation is required even if that author later develops the idea further. This might be an idea about how to interpret data, what methodology to use, or what conclusions to draw. It might be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, authors must cite their sources. In cases where the author develops an idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source of the idea, and then in the following sentence, the author can explain the more developed idea.

When the author takes the words of another author, citations and quotation marks are required. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source the author has read, the author must use quotation marks to indicate the use of the other author's original words; a mere quotation is no longer sufficient.

Sanggitarupa takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance of a paper that violates any of the above standards.