Plagiarism policy

 The editors of the "AgroChemistry and Soil Science" accept for expert consideration only original manuscripts of scientific articles that have not been published earlier and have not been submitted for publication in other journals. The authors guarantee this by signing the License Agreement.
 In the submitted manuscripts at the stage of peer review (before the review procedure), if necessary, for some manuscripts, the level of uniqueness of the author's text is determined using the appropriate software.
 If the level of uniqueness (originality) of the manuscript is less than 75 %, the review of the manuscript is terminated, the verification protocol will be sent to the author. The revealed fact of plagiarism, self-plagiarism or incorrect citation is regarded by the Editors as a violation of publication ethics.
 If plagiarism or incorrect citation is detected, but the level does not exceed 25%, the editors immediately warn the author about the need to rewrite the text or make a link to the original sources and resubmit a new version of the manuscript.
 If plagiarism in any volume is detected after the publication of the article, the Editorial Board analyzes this fact, informs the author and decides to post information about this in the PDF file of the article on the ACSS website, or even withdraw the article from its own website or from those databases where by that time it was already located.
 Plagiarism is the following:
 - verbatim citation of text from articles, books, abstracts of other authors in any volume without reference to the source;
 - use of copies of illustrations (figures, photos, graphs, tables, etc.) by other authors without reference to the source;
 Self-plagiarism:
 - copying large fragments of verbatim text from previously published own articles or books in print and electronic formats without reference to the original source;
 - use of unaltered illustrations from previously published articles or books in print and electronic formats; the author cannot copy his own material for a new manuscript without reference to the source.
 Incorrect citation includes:
 - the absence of graphic highlighting (in quotes) of the verbatim quoted text, even if there is a link to the source;
 - incorrectly formatted bibliographic description of the source, which prevents its identification;
 - absence of references in the text of the article (serial number in square brackets) to the sources given in the article list;
 - the absence in the article list of sources referred to in the text;
 - excessive citation (if there are references to sources and graphic highlighting of the quoted text), the volume of which is not justified by the topic and purpose of the article.
 Recommendations for authors on how to avoid plagiarism, self-plagiarism and incorrect citation are posted on the page "For Authors"