Plagiarism Issue

• Matching Passages: The extent and distribution of matching text within the introduction, methods, findings, discussion, and other sections.
• Source Concentration: Whether substantial overlap comes from one source or multiple sources and whether reused material has been accurately attributed.
• Citation and Quotation: The correctness and completeness of in-text citations, quoted passages, and reference entries.
• Academic Terminology: Legitimate overlap in conventional scientific expressions, common definitions, bibliographic entries, and standard methodological descriptions.
• Original Intellectual Content: The originality of arguments, evidence, datasets, images, tables, figures, and scholarly contributions.
• Prior Publications: Any appropriately disclosed reuse of the authors' own earlier material and possible redundant or duplicate publication.

Plagiarism is a question of scholarly attribution and research integrity, not merely a numerical similarity score. Every use of another person's intellectual work must be acknowledged accurately.

1. Prepare the manuscript in accordance with the ITJ Author Guidelines and official article template.
2. Assess the manuscript for inappropriate text overlap and accurately identify original sources.
3. Revise copied or insufficiently paraphrased passages without altering the scientific meaning of the cited work.
4. Cite borrowed ideas, methods, findings, datasets, tables, figures, images, and quotations appropriately.
5. Check that every in-text citation has a matching reference entry and that bibliographic information is accurate.
6. Disclose relevant reuse of the authors' previously published research and avoid redundant publication.
7. Retain genuine similarity-check documentation if the editorial team requests it.

Authors are responsible for originality and source attribution regardless of the Turnitin percentage. Concealing matching text, falsifying reports, or simply replacing words without crediting the source does not meet academic integrity requirements.

Authors are not required to purchase a third-party plagiarism detection service as a condition of using this list. Any independent report is supplementary; editorial assessment remains based on the journal's official Turnitin procedure and examination of the underlying sources.

1. The manuscript title or submitted filename.
2. The similarity-detection platform used and the date of examination.
3. The overall similarity percentage recorded for the version screened.
4. The matching sources and the locations of relevant matching passages, where available.
5. The relationship between the screened document and the manuscript currently under editorial assessment.
6. A legible, authentic copy of the assessment report when specifically requested by the editorial team.
7. A revised manuscript and explanation of the changes, where correction is required.

A similarity report is supporting editorial evidence, not a certificate of plagiarism-free writing. Submitted reports and the corresponding manuscript should match; manipulation, misrepresentation, or selective concealment of findings is unacceptable.

The existing ITJ policy specifies a target of below 10% similarity after necessary corrections. Authors must still ensure proper citations, quotations, paraphrasing, and source acknowledgment throughout the manuscript.

Editorial assessment should distinguish legitimate source matches from unacknowledged borrowing while applying ITJ's published thresholds consistently. Authors must not manipulate report settings or hide relevant sources to give a misleading impression of originality.

1. Review the overall Turnitin similarity index and the sources identified in the report.
2. Examine where matching passages occur and how much substantive text is reproduced.
3. Check citations, quotations, paraphrasing, and the correspondence between claims and supporting sources.
4. Consider whether tables, figures, images, data, or published findings have been reused without appropriate acknowledgment.
5. Examine whether prior publications, including the authors' earlier work, have been disclosed accurately.
6. Request clarification or correction where the findings are uncertain or require author input.
7. Apply the published similarity thresholds and make a reasoned editorial decision.

Rewriting source language is not sufficient if borrowed concepts, datasets, arguments, or findings are left unattributed. Acceptable scholarly paraphrasing must preserve source meaning and include accurate acknowledgment.

• Clarification: Seek an explanation of identified matching text or use of previously published sources.
• Citation Correction: Require quotations, references, source acknowledgments, and paraphrasing to be corrected.
• Revision: Return manuscripts in the 10–40% category to the author for substantive revision and improved attribution.
• Rescreening: Reassess a corrected manuscript using Turnitin and review the remaining matches.
• Further Ethical Assessment: Temporarily stop editorial consideration where serious concerns require additional inquiry.
• Rejection: Reject manuscripts above 40% similarity without resubmission of the rejected manuscript, in accordance with the published ITJ threshold.

Authors must address the actual source-use concerns identified by the editors. Artificially replacing words, altering document structure solely to conceal text matches, or falsifying the similarity report does not resolve plagiarism.

Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions should be documented transparently; the published record must not be silently altered to conceal serious ethical concerns.

• Authenticity: Screening results and supporting documents should correspond to the actual manuscript version being considered.
• Accuracy: Authors and editorial participants must not fabricate, alter, or misrepresent similarity reports or related evidence.
• Traceability: Where relevant, records should show the nature of identified concerns, explanations supplied, revisions requested, and editorial outcomes.
• Restricted Access: Unpublished manuscripts, confidential reports, and private communications should be accessed only by persons authorized to participate in the editorial process.
• Responsible Handling: Documentation should be managed with appropriate regard for confidentiality, applicable laws, privacy, and research integrity.

The purpose of recordkeeping is to support fair and accountable decisions, not to disclose confidential manuscripts or reviewer information to unauthorized parties.

“We declare that the manuscript submitted to the Indonesian Tourism Journal (ITJ) represents original scholarly work. All borrowed words, ideas, data, findings, quotations, tables, figures, images, and intellectual contributions have been appropriately acknowledged.

We confirm that the manuscript has been examined for inappropriate textual overlap and that all citations, paraphrased material, and quotations comply with academic integrity requirements. We agree to cooperate with ITJ's Turnitin-based assessment and to provide authentic explanations, supporting documents, or revised manuscript content when requested by the editorial team.”

The wording above is a suggested declaration for author use and does not imply that ITJ currently requires this exact signed statement. The journal's existing originality and similarity thresholds remain applicable.