Jurnal SAMBAS (Studi Agama, Masyarakat, Budaya, Adat, Sejarah): Journal of Religious, Community, Culture, Costume, History Studies)

Jurnal SAMBAS (Studi Agama, Masyarakat, Budaya, Adat, Sejarah): Journal of Religious, Community, Culture, Costume, History Studies) is committed to maintaining academic integrity and originality in scholarly publications. All manuscripts submitted to the journal must be original works and must not contain plagiarism, inappropriate textual overlap, or unattributed use of other authors' ideas, data, or intellectual contributions.

The journal uses Turnitin as a plagiarism screening tool to assess the similarity of submitted manuscripts. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts have a similarity index of less than 40% before submission.

Authors are strongly encouraged to attach the Turnitin similarity report when submitting their manuscripts through the journal's online submission system.

Manuscripts with a similarity index of 40% or higher will be rejected or returned to the authors for appropriate revision in accordance with the journal's editorial policy.

The similarity index is used as an initial screening indicator and does not, by itself, constitute a definitive determination of plagiarism. The editorial team will examine the similarity report carefully, considering the nature and context of the matched text, including properly cited quotations, references, bibliographies, commonly used academic expressions, and relevant methodological terminology.

Particular attention will be given to unattributed reproduction of scholarly arguments, historical narratives, religious texts, cultural documentation, ethnographic descriptions, traditional knowledge, and other intellectual works.

Authors must ensure that all sources are properly acknowledged and cited in accordance with the journal's referencing guidelines.

The journal reserves the right to reject manuscripts that contain plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct, regardless of their similarity index. All suspected cases of plagiarism will be handled in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policy and relevant guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).