Plagiarism Policy

Papers should be original, unpublished, and not unfinished publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source must be clearly known as totally different from the current original text by

1. indentation
2. use of quotation marks
3. identification of the source

Any text of an quantity exceeding use standards (herein outlined as quite 2 or 3 sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another supply needs permission from the copyright holder and, if possible, the initial author(s) and conjointly needs identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is known, the Associate Editor or Lead Editor responsible for the review of this paper and also the Editor-in-Chief can agree on measures per the extent of plagiarism detected within the paper in agreement with the subsequent guidelines:

Plagiarism	Measures
Minor A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper	A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made
Intermediate A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication	The submitted article is accepted with major changes.
Severe A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication	The paper is rejected.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as all of them sign the IJIRTM If a second case of plagiarism by a similar author(s) is known, choices on the measures to be enforced are created by the Editorial team (Editor-in-Chief, Lead Editor and Associate Editors) with the Chair of the Editorial Committee. The author(s) may be impermissible to submit additional articles forever.

This policy applies conjointly to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have antecedently been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures ought to be identified and also the previous publication referenced. it's understood that just in case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the fabric was antecedently revealed. The author ought to determine the supply of the antecedently revealed material and obtain permission from the original author and also the publisher.

In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings then is submitted for publication in IJIRTM either in identical or in swollen type, the authors should determine the name of the conference proceedings and also the date of the publication and procure permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor might decide to not accept this paper for publication. However, an author shall be allowable to use material from an unpublished presentation, as well as visual displays, in an exceedingly subsequent journal publication

In the case of a publication being submitted that was originally published in another language, the title, date and journal of the initial publication should be known by the authors, and therefore the copyright should be obtained. The editor might settle for such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience.

The editor might choose a selected paper that had been published (e.g. a “historic” paper) for republication so as to produce a higher perspective of a series of papers published in one issue of IJIRTM. This republication shall be clearly known intrinsically and therefore the date and journal of the initial publication shall be given, and therefore the permission of the author(s) and the publisher shall be obtained.