The Pena Anda Editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy, stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication in the Pena Anda. The Pena Anda will utilize Turnitin's originality checking software as a tool to detect similarities between text in article manuscripts and the final version articles ready for publication. A maximum of 30% similarity is allowed for the submitted papers. If we find more than 30 similarities,  the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission

Definition:

Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Policy:

Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also involves identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief is responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper, in agreement with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

 Minor Plagiarism

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

Punishment: A warning is issued to the authors, along with a request to revise the manuscript and properly cite the sources.

Intermediate Plagiarism

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

Punishment: The submitted article is automatically rejected.

Severe Plagiarism

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

Punishment: The paper will be automatically rejected, and the authors will be prohibited from submitting further articles to the journal.