Originality and Plagiarism

Manuscripts submitted to the Fundamentum: Journal of Legal and Judicial Reform will be screened using the Turnitin similarity detection tool. The Fundamentum: Journal of Legal and Judicial Reform will immediately reject manuscripts that indicate plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

The Fundamentum: Journal of Legal and Judicial Reform would like to ensure that all authors exercise due care and adhere to international standards for academic integrity, especially in matters of plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without giving proper credit to the source. Even if it happens unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious academic offense and is not acceptable in international academic publications.

When the author knows certain information (names, dates, places, statistical figures, or other detailed information) from a particular source, citation is required. (This is only excluded in cases of general knowledge, where the data is available in more than five sources or is common knowledge, for example, the fact that Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world).

When authors take ideas from other authors, citation is still required even if the author then develops the idea further. The idea could be an idea about how to interpret the data, what methodology was used, or what conclusions were drawn. It could be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Whatever the idea, the writer must cite the source. In cases where the writer develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source of the idea, and then in the next sentence, the writer can explain his or her more developed idea.

When the author takes words from another author, quotations and quotation marks are required. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source the author has read, the author must use quotation marks to indicate the use of another author's original words; quotation alone is no longer sufficient. Therefore, you must ensure that the article you submit for publication in the Fundamentum: Journal of Legal and Judicial Reform is completely original and new from other similar research and if you use the work and/or words of others, then you must cite them appropriately.

Fundamentum: Journal of Legal and Judicial Reform in ensuring the authenticity of your article, we use the Turnitin screening application, with a maximum limit of 30% similarity.

The Fundamentum: Journal of Legal and Judicial Reform takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to retract any article found to violate any of the standards set out above. For further information, prospective authors may contact the editorial office at.