GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING DOCUMENT IN TURNITIN

FOR SIMILARITY CHECK

TURNITIN
TURNITIN is similarity detection software, used at various universities and colleges all
around the world. TURNITIN's system checks all documents against three central source
areas: a. The Internet b. Published material such as Journals, Books etc. c. previously
submitted student material stored his repository (e.g. memorandum, case studies and
examination works)
AUTHORIZED USERS

With the help of Library Staff the Faculty Members, Research Scholars and Students of
National Law Institute University, Bhopal are authorized to use the system for similarity
detection.
DOCUMENTS COVERED

Project Submission, Dissertation, and Research Paper

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Document files Format : MS Word (.doc, .docx)

Paper format : Use the standard A4 format
Font : Times New Roman, 12 pt
SUBMISSION EMAIL ACCOUNT

Scholar/Student/Faculty members should personally send a mail for similarity check from
his/her official/institutional mail account

Your Submission Email Account: ….@nliu.ac.in

To
NLIU Similarity Account plagiarism.check@nliu.ac.in

SIGNIFICANT SIMILARITY (%)

In the different TURNITIN interfaces, percentages and colors are displayed to the
reviewer, but none of these mean, under any circumstances, that the document contains
plagiarized text. What TURNITIN does is to show similarities between the submitted text
and the sources that are indexed and these similarities, which may have come from
quotations used perfectly correctly, are to be judged by the reviewing teacher or
examiner – who then proceeds according to the rules and regulations that apply to your
own organization (“FAQ,” n.d.). The criteria depend on supervisor and the policy of
university. The software will report even the cited content or quotation as plagiarized

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content in the similarity report. As per NLIU norms the permissible similarity level is
30%. If similarity level of the content ranges from 31-50, the candidate and the research
supervisor have to modify the content of the document and reduce the similarity level
below 30%. The modified document has to be submitted for re-evaluation for plagiarism
check after a period of 3 days. If the similarity level is above 50% the research supervisor
has to give a justifiable explanation for the same, the modified document is eligible for re-
submission only after 5 days.

TIMING FOR SIMILARITY CHECK

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (during working days)

SIMILARITY CHECK DO'S AND DON'T

DO'S

Steps for submission of document for similarity check

Step 1: Prepare your document (research paper/project/dissertation), use file name for
submission as described in below table, open your institutional email account
(…….@nliu.ac.in) and compose mail ( as per below mentioned mail subject, body
of your email text, file name etc).

Detail for Composing Email for Similarity Check

Document Type File Name Use Subject Body of Email Text

of Email as
Project Report / Enrollment Id Similarity Email id of Guide
Dissertation Trimester/ Semester Check – Project Guide Name
Paper name.docx Project/Thesis
Researcher:
Name, Course, Class,
Trimester, Enrollment
number

Research Article Enrollment Id.docx Similarity Detail of Researcher:

(in case of student), Check-
First Name.docx (in Research My Name & Class/
case of faculty Article Enrollment number
and staff) Designation

Step 2: Attach your document and send this E- mail from your institutional ID to:
plagiarism.check@nliu.ac.in

Step 3: The library will forward report to you by e- mail as soon as possible.
DON'T

Do not use multiple email account Id, email Ids or Ids of your friend, or other personal
email Ids (not provided by the NLIU) for submission your document to

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 TURNITIN.
Do not submit your document without proper subject and body text as recommended
in above table.
All the authors of the joint project/research paper need not submit their project for
similarity check. Only one of the people from the joint authors may use his/her
email account (i.e. ….@nliu.ac.in) for submission of project/paper for similarity
report.
Do not use "Homogliphs or any other tricks" to bypass similarity check, it is
considered as unfair means, you may be penalized accordance with regulation of
NLIU.

For detail if any, you may contact to:

LIBRARY
NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY, BHOPAL

Email: plagiarism.check@nliu.ac.in