Plagiarism Policy

The ethical guidelines and plagiarism policy provided by the HEC (https://jcs.ndu.edu.pk/public/pages/HEC-Ethical-Guidelines-for-Journals.pdf) will be followed by the authors for publication in JLJ. Plagiarism for all the manuscripts will be checked using Turnitin plagiarism check software. Similarity index must be less than 16%. It is the writers' duty to be aware of plagiarism in all its forms, including self-plagiarism and paraphrase.

An author will be provided three chances to remove the plagiarism if found exceeding the mentioned similarity index value. After that the manuscript will be returned and will not be further considered for publication.

On further request, the corresponding author will be required to provide an explanation. If the author/s fails to respond within the allotted timeframe or provide an inadequate justification, the article will be permanently withdrawn and their identity will be blocked.