Editorial policies

 

Policy Against Plagiarism

Armiliar operates a policy against plagiarism oriented to guarantee that all the published works are original and unpublished.

In the face of the limitations that the programmes of automatic plagiarism detection present with the Spanish language, and with the objective of giving an answer to broader aspects that fall within plagiarism practices, the magazine implements the following procedure for each manuscript received:

• When applying the article, the authors are requested to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and that they have followed the Guidelines for Authors, in which It is stated that the postulated articles must be original.

• Upon receiving the article, the editor will use Internet search tools with the purpose of verifying and comparing data, results and aspects in the writing of works by the same author or different authors to ensure the originality and avoid plagiarism.

• When submitting the article for evaluation, the reviewers will be requested to use their knowledge about the sources and literature on the subject to inform about possible indicators of plagiarism with papers previously published in other sources.

If plagiarism practice is proven, Armiliar follows the guidelines provided by COPE

The magazine considers the following practices plagiarism:

Direct plagiarism
- Minimal changes are made and an outside text is presented as its own.
- The authorship of fragments (sentences or paragraphs) corresponding to foreign texts is omitted (whether they are reproduced in textual form and no quotes are placed as if they are presented by paraphrase).

Plagiarism in direct quotes
- No quotes are used to indicate the fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that are reproduced in a textual way.
- Only a part of the fragment (sentences or paragraphs) that is reproduced literally is indicated with quotation marks (it is omitted that the phrases before and/or after the passage between quotation marks also correspond to the quoted text).

Plagiarism in paraphrases
- The changes made do not substantially modify the wording of the original fragment (sentences or paragraphs), so they do not constitute paraphrases.
- The paraphrase is extensive and the paraphrased passages are not clearly differentiated from the passages themselves.
- The paraphrase is continuous and there are no added materials, own ideas or critical reflections that allow the interaction or that enrich the information available in other works already published.

Autoplagiarism or recycling fraud
- Minimal changes are made to your own text and presented as if it were a different work.
- The indication that it is a previously published work that has been recycled with corrections or with new additions is omitted.

It is not considered autoplagiarism when:
- The previous work is the basis for a new contribution and key parts must be repeated to explain and defend the new arguments.
- The author considers that what has been developed in previous works cannot be presented in a better way for the new publication.
- Repeated passages do not exceed 30% of the original work.