BMIT acknowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable for all authors and, as a result, establishes the following policy outlining specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is detected by BMIT anti-plagiarism software (we are using turnitin) in a submitted article for publication.

 "Plagiarism is copying and presenting someone else's work as your own." To avoid plagiarism, you must differentiate the copied content from your text and attribute the source.  Plagiarism is fraud and can lead to job loss, reputation damage, and failing grades.

This definition of plagiarism applies for copied text and ideas:

1. Regardless of the original author of the concept or text that was copied.
2. Regardless of whether the author(s) of the text or idea which you have copied actually copied that text or idea from another source.
3. Regardless of whether or not the authorship of the text or idea which you copy is known.
4. Regardless of the type of text (journal article/paper, website, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc.) in which you incorporate the copied text or idea, you must cite it.
5. Regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material gives permission for the material to be copied.
6.  Regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).

When plagiarism is identified by the Plagiarism Checker software,  the Editorial Board responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the article in agreement with the following guidelines:

Minor Plagiarism

A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other papers or publications.

Punishment: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.

Intermediate Plagiarism

A significant data, paragraph, or sentence of an article is plagiarized without proper citation to the original source.

Punishment: The submitted article is automatic rejected.

Severe Plagiarism

A large portion of an article is plagiarized that involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulation, equation, law, statement, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.

Punishment: The paper is automatic rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to the journal.

Working Process:

1. Editorial Team checks manuscript on offline and online database manually (checking proper citation and quotation).
2. Editorial Team checks manuscript using Turnitin.