Research is a novel proclamation based on extremely high moral values. Ethics and integrity are two very important aspects of Research Activities. Sometimes authors intentionally or unintentionally engage into practice of attributed borrowing of research content withoutfully acknowledging the sources using the rules of the specified academic referencing style, such Author is committing ‘plagiarism’ and this is an academic misconduct.

Such acts affect healthy journal atmosphere, which will also harm the reputation of the journal as well as the individual. International journal of innovative and informative multidisciplinary research (IJIIMR) strongly condemns such illegal form of copying.

Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.

What constitutes Plagiarism:

Plagiarism might occur when following acts are committed:

• ➢ Turning in someone else’s work as your own

• ➢ Copying and pasting from the Internet and posting somewhere else without proper citation

• ➢ Putting your name on another person’s essay or project

• ➢ Copying exact wording from another person’s text

• ➢ Using another person’s photo, diagram, tables, sounds, or ideas without proper citation

• ➢ Presenting research in your own words without providing references

• ➢ Purchasing another person’s text and using it as your own

• ➢ Presenting ideas in the same format and order as your research source and like activities.

Anti-plagiarism declaration, By submitting paper for publication to IJIIMR, Authors (all authors of the article) certify that:

• □ I/We are fully aware that plagiarism is a legal wrong.

• □ I/We know that plagiarism is the use of another person’s idea or published work and to pretend that it is one’s own.

• □ I/We hereby declare that this piece of written work is the result of my/ourown independent scholarly work.

• □ I/We declare that each contribution to IJIIMR’s project from the work(s) of other peoples’ published works or unpublished sources have been duly acknowledged and source of information have been referencedin all cases material from the work of others (in books, articles, essays, dissertations, and on the internet), and quotations and paraphrases are clearly indicated. No material other than that listed has been used.

• □ I/We certify that I/We shall be solely responsible for any incomplete reference that may remain in my/our work.

• □ I/We declare that the Publisher and Journal shall not be responsible regarding plagiarism issues raised out of my/our article. I/We understand that Plagiarized article will not be published in IJIIMR and if any plagiarized article is published by mistake, it will be deleted from IJIIMR’s website and contents.

• □ I/We undertake that I/We have taken due care of plagiarism while submitting this manuscript and I/We shall be responsible for text and work included in the manuscript.

• □ I/We undertake that this written work has not previously been published.