Romanian Review of Geographical Education observes the publishing ethics according to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and to Elsevier’s Ethics in Research and Publishing (Publishing Ethics Resource Kit). Romanian Review of Geographical Education does not accept plagiarism and therefore we ask the authors to sign a Journal Publishing Agreement. Download the form here.
The Romanian Review of Geographical Education does not allow any form of plagiarism while being committed to high standards of research and publication ethics.
The definition of “plagiarize” taken from the Merriam-Webster (2012) online dictionary and Plagiarism.org (2012), is “to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.” Sometimes that “existing source” is a work written by another scholar, and sometimes it is a work written by the author him-/herself. The latter circumstance constitutes self-plagiarism. Plagiarism most often takes the form of verbatim copying of passages from an existing source, but without the quotation marks and page numbers needed to convey proper attribution to the reader. However, pla-giarism can also take the form of “close copying,”wherein passages are taken almost verbatim from elsewhere but changed slightly (Wager, 2011) (COLQUITT, 2012, p. 749).
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References:
COLQUITT, J. A. (2012) From The Editors – Plagiarism Policies and Screening at AMJ. Academy of Management Journal 55 (4), p. 749-751. DOI. – https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.4004
COPE (2014) Guidelines. Available from: http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines
ELSEVIER (2014) Publishing Ethics Resources Kit Available from: https://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk