Manuscripts submitted to the SYNAPSI: Journal of Information Systems and Informatics Education will be checked for plagiarism using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool. SYNAPSI: Journal of Information Systems and Informatics Education will promptly reject papers containing plagiarism or self-plagiarism and return them to the author for correction. The maximum similarity index we accept is 20% (without references exceeding 15%).

SYNAPSI: Journal of Information Systems and Informatics Education wants to ensure that all authors exercise due care and adhere to international standards for academic integrity, particularly regarding the issue of plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without properly crediting the source. Even if unintentional, plagiarism remains a serious academic offense and is unacceptable in international academic publications.

Citation is required when an author obtains specific information (names, dates, places, statistics, or other detailed information) from a specific source.

When an author takes ideas from another author, citation is still required even if the author later develops the ideas further. This might be an idea about how to interpret data, what methodology to use, or what conclusions to draw. It might be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, the author must cite the source. In cases where the author develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source, and then in the following sentence, the author can explain the more developed idea.

When an author takes the words of another author, citations 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 the other author's original words; a quotation alone is no longer sufficient.

SYNAPSI: Journal of Information Systems and Informatics Education takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw any manuscript found to violate any of the standards set out above. For further information, prospective authors can contact the editorial office at synapsicic@gmail.com