Carolus Journal of Nursing has a policy of screening for plagiarism. We use Turnitin to checking the authenticity article and tracking duplicate content. Carolus Journal of Nursing will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. 

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/ plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to Carolus Journal of Nursing must have similarity level less than 25%. Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the source properly.

Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the sources.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement.