Plagiarism Screening Policy

Manuscripts submitted to the Lentera Cendekia: Journal of Community Service will be screened for plagiarism using the CrossCheck/iThenticate plagiarism detection tool. Lentera Cendekia: Journal of Community Service will promptly reject papers that indicate plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting an article to reviewers, it is first checked for similarity/plagiarism by a member of the editorial team. Articles submitted to the Lentera Cendekia: Journal of Community Service must have a similarity level of less than 25% (excluding the bibliography), and a similarity score with each source of no more than 3%.

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's thoughts or words as if they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgement, or by failing to properly cite the source. Plagiarism can take many forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing another's work. To accurately assess whether an author has committed plagiarism, we emphasize the following possible situations:

1. An author may literally copy another author's work—by copying it word for word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledgment, or citation of the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work suspected of plagiarism.

2. Substantial copying means an author reproduces substantial portions of another author's work without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. The term substantial can be understood in terms of both quality and quantity, often used in the context of intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.

3. Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and arranging them into new sentences within the text. This practice becomes unethical when the author fails to properly cite or acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is more difficult to identify