Plagiarism Policy | Civil and Sustainable Urban Engineering

Civil and Sustainable Urban Engineering (CSUE)

Civil and Sustainable Urban Engineering (e-ISSN: 2808-9200) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open-access journal on all aspects of basic and applied research involving three important divisions of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Urban Engineering published biannually online (June and December) by Society of Tropical Science and Technology & Tecno Scientifica. Open Access — free for readers and authors, with no article processing charges (APC). High Visibility: indexed within CrossRef, Scilit, Google Scholar and many other databases. Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 3 weeks after submission. About CSUE journal | All volumes & issues

The journal will not accept manuscripts that are plagiarized in any circumstances. The journal will verify the originality of the submitted manuscripts with Turnitin, the plagiarism detection software. Editorial board has passed the following actions:

1. Similarity Index (>20%): Article Rejected. If a manuscript uses a text copied directly from another source, this text must be written in quotation marks and original source must be cited. If any kind of plagiarism is detected during the review process, the manuscript will be rejected.
2. Similarity index Less than <20%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).