Authors must ensure that all submitted work is entirely original. When referencing the ideas, words, or findings of others, proper citation or quotation is required. Any publications that have significantly influenced the reported research should be appropriately acknowledged. Plagiarism—whether it involves presenting someone else’s work as one’s own, copying or closely paraphrasing large portions of another’s work without proper attribution, or claiming results from research conducted by others—is a serious ethical violation. All forms of plagiarism are considered unacceptable and unethical in scholarly publishing.

Authors bear the responsibility to check for similarity and originality of the article before making the submission. Maximum similarity allowed is 15 percent.

Whenever a copyrighted material is used, contributors/authors should accurately reproduce, and obtain written permission from the copyright holders (publishers), and the same should be acknowledged in the article.

Proper citation should be given in the manuscript for Images/Figures and Tables reproduced from any other sources.