Plagiarism Screening

In publishing, KIDDIE: Early Childhood Education and Care Journal strongly against any case of plagiarism on its own merits. SVS commits to deterring plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Papers found with such problems are automatically rejected, and authors are so advised. Also, significant parts of the work have not been published. The author also respects the Author Guidelines of KIDDIE: Early Childhood Education and Care Journal regarding the redundant, duplicate or fraudulent publication entirely.

Before the author submits the manuscript to AKIDDIE: Early Childhood Education and Care Journal, please check first for using a plagiarism checker. When submitting a published article for an originality check, KIDDIE: Early Childhood Education and Care Journal recommends using Turnitin Plagiarism Scanner from http://turnitin.com. It is a totally free and easy to use step-by-step process—the similarity rate allowed in the KIDDIE: Early Childhood Education and Care Journal a maximum of 20 per cent. Before using Turnitin for the first time, we highly recommend that the author reads the instruction to use this plagiarism detector. The KIDDIE: Early Childhood Education and Care Journal recommends using Turnitin Plagiarism Scanner from Plagiarism with the minimum unique 70 per cent.

Apart from Turn it in, other plagiarism software can be used free of charge via the following link: