ANTIPLAGIUM

Plagiarism exists when a natural person attributes the work of another or when a natural person attributes the work of another, not reproducing it identically, but imitating it in its essential extremes. Thus, among other aspects, the following types of plagiarism are distinguished:

 a.- Data or information not cited: It consists of the absence of reference from the sources on which the data used in the documents is obtained

 b.- Idea not cited, either specific or general concept: Use of concepts or ideas in the text without presenting who the author is, which makes them go through their creation. It is also plagiarism when a correct citation is made by copying verbatim and in quotes those that the source expresses, but after the citation it presents more ideas from the same or another source, changing the order of the ideas

 c.- Direct plagiarism: When the structure of the sentences is changed and content is added or deleted without recognizing the original author

 d.- Plagiarism using a citation: When, although the true author is recognized, plagiarism occurs because the original text is reproduced with only minor changes without using quotation marks or footnotes

 e- Simple plagiarism with a footnote: When quotation marks are not used even though academic citation rules require their use and some words are slightly changed to make the passage appear to be different from the original

 f.- Paraphrasing as plagiarism: When paraphrasing without reference to the original paragraph extensively and continuously, even when the source is cited

 g.- Self-plagiarism: When the author steals himself by duplicating or recycling previous publications of his authorship, to promote himself or increase his prestige

 Plagiarism report: The peer or peers assigned to evaluate and review the scientific article that detect plagiarism in any of its modalities will inform the Editor of such circumstance, explaining precisely and in detail the fact or facts constituting plagiarism, indicating the the work or production to which the plagiarist claims all or a part that is not his

General consequences for plagiarism: The author who incurs in any form of plagiarism of those referenced in this document or any established in the law, will incur a serious fault and will generate as a consequence, the rejection of the corresponding scientific article and the sanctions that the Colombian legal system provides in this regard.

Consequences for acts other than plagiarism: Authors who violate the responsibilities indicated in this document may be subject to reprimands or rejection of their articles, taking into account the seriousness of the behavior. For this particular case, the sanction imposed will be imposed by the Editor with prior approval of the Editorial Committee.

Penalty process for plagiarism: Once the plagiarism report has been received, the Editor will proceed if he finds merit to do so, to open the respective investigation utilizing a decision in which it will be arranged to transfer said report to the authors denounced as authors of plagiarism so that through written render the discharges to which there is place. The term to render the discharges will be 10 days from the notification to the author or authors of the work in which the plagiarism was reported. Notification of the opening decision will be made by written communication sent to the email that the author has reported. If the author or authors accept their responsibility for the plagiarism investigated when the discharges are rendered, the action will end with a decision in which the rejection of the scientific article will be imposed as the only sanction.

If the charges are not accepted, it will be arranged to continue with the investigation employing a decision that only admits an appeal for reversal in which, besides, a term of 3 days will be given from its notification so that the interested parties can present or request evidence in defense of their interests. The term for the practice of suitable, pertinent and conducive tests will be 10 days, which if necessary may be extended for a period of 5 days.

Once the testing phase is concluded, the decision of the investigation will be issued, in which if it is found that plagiarism was committed, the offender or offenders will be imposed as a sanction the rejection of the scientific article and the impossibility of re-submitting scientific articles to the Journal within a period of two (2) years

 The decision can be appealed before the Committee of Academic Unity of the Faculty of Law and its procedure will be assimilated to the appeal determined in the CPACA.