Screening for Plagiarism

Manuscript submitted to Sipakatau Journal will be screened using Turnitin or iThenticate  similarity detection tool. The Journal of Coaching and Sports Science will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Sipakatau Journal wants to ensure that all authors are careful and comply with international standards for academic integrity, particularly regarding plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without proper credit. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is a serious academic violation and is unacceptable in international academic publications.

When the author learns specific information (a name, date, place, statistical number, or other detailed information) from a specific source, a citation is required to be provided. (This is only forgiven in cases of general knowledge, where the data is readily available in more than five sources or is common knowledge, e.g., the fact that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.)

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

When the author takes words from another author, citation and quotation marks are required. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source that the author has read, the author must use quotation marks to denote the use of another author's original words; just a citation is no longer sufficient.

Sipakatau Journal takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance from a paper found to violate any of the standards set out above. For further information, potential authors can contact the editorial office at journaljcss@gmail.com