By submission to IJMSPH entails that authors automatically attest that none of the parts of manuscripts is plagiarized from any other source. Proper reference should be provided whenever anything is extracted from a source. Technical editors use Plagiarism detection tools/softwares to ensure the originality of the article.

In the case of suspected plagiarism, Author will be issued a notice to defend the charge of plagiarism and after going through authors explanation if committee think that authors justification is not correct in that case IJMSPH committee would take immediate and strict actions against the authors ranging from rejection of the manuscript to preclusion of the authors from any future publication in the journal. Journal will report to the authors/s affiliating institution about author’s misconduct.