Journal of Research in Ecology judge any instance of plagiarism on its point of confinement. In the event that plagiarism is identified by the editorial board number, reviewer, editor, supervisor and so on., in any phase of article process earlier or after acceptance, amid editing or at a galley proof level. We caution the same to the author(s) and will request them to rewrite or to refer the references from where the substance has been taken. On the off chance that over 30% of the paper is plagiarized the article might be rejected and the same is informed to the author.

 Self-plagiarism is a related issue. In this record we characterize self-plagiarism as the verbatim or close verbatim reuse of huge bits of one's own copyrighted work without refering to the first source. Note that self-plagiarism does not matter to publications in view of the author's own already copyrighted work (e.g., Proceedings of a conference) where an explicit reference is made to the pre-publication. Such reuse does not require quotes to depict the reused data however requires that the source be refered to. When an author’s own copy righted material is needed to be included in his own words then it should be given within the double quotes, provided proper citation should be given. The using of citation without double quotes are not accepted because, the text we see is for us to read and understand but not to be used as such; using as such violated the copy rights of the publisher and author as it is an intellectual property.