The Journal is currently using iTthenticate for plagiarism detection in manuscripts. Papers will be withdrawn from any stage of the publication process (even if the article has already been published) if any form of plagiarism has been found.

Plagiarism may take various forms, from passing off another paper as the author(s) own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another(s) paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is therefore unacceptable.

The Editorial Board considers the following to be the forms of plagiarism:

• use (word-for-word citation) of any materials without indicating the source;
• use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information presentation without indicating the source;
• use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information presentation published in scientific and popular issues without approval of the copyright holder;
• use of the materials without written permission, whose authors or copyright holders do not permit use of their materials without their formal approval.

The Editorial Board considers the following to be the forms of incorrect borrowing:

• absence of graphical highlighting of literal text citation when there are references to the source;
• incorrect references (incomplete bibliographic description of the sources, which prevents their identification;
• reference not to the first source of the borrowed text without clear indication of this fact (mistake in primary source determination);
• absence of references from the text to the sources listed in the bibliography of the article;
• excessive citation (in case there are references to the sources and graphical highlighting of the cited text), the volume of which is not justified by the genre and aims of the article.

The Journal does not allow any forms of plagiarism.