Plagiarism Policy

Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Life-Span Psychology, Linguistics, and Media Studies (JLLM) will be screened using the Turnitin similarity detection tool. JLLM will immediately reject papers that exhibit plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

JLLM is committed to maintaining academic integrity and ensuring that all authors adhere to international standards in preventing plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without proper credit. Even if unintentional, plagiarism is considered a serious academic violation and is unacceptable in international academic publications.

Whenever an author obtains specific information (such as names, dates, locations, statistical data, or other detailed information) from a particular source, proper citation is required. The only exception is general knowledge—information that is widely available in at least five sources or commonly known facts (e.g., "Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world").

If an author takes an idea from another source, citation is required even if the author develops the idea further. This could involve interpretation of data, methodology, or conclusions. Any broad theoretical discussions, field-specific developments, or general concepts sourced from others must also be cited.

If an author uses another author's exact words, both citation and quotation marks are required. If four or more consecutive words from a source are identical, quotation marks must be used, as a citation alone is insufficient.

JLLM takes academic integrity very seriously. The editorial team reserves the right to withdraw acceptance from any paper found to violate the standards mentioned above.

For further inquiries, potential authors may contact the editorial office at jilhs.spdfharmony@gmail.com.