Typically, copying many paras from own publication leads to self-plagiarism.
As per university norms, I published required articles for PhD degree.
For my thesis preparation, I want use many paragraph from the journal paper, which was published by me towards the same work for PhD.
Many guidelines suggest that you should give proper citation.
what is proper citation?
Should I cite for each sentence? or one citation is sufficient for the whole paragraph?
How to cite the paragraph of the own paper in thesis?
It is of course a common requirement to publish articles related to your research during the process of writing a PhD, and it is expected that you would draw on these articles in your final thesis. However, you should not copy extensively from them. Copying entire paragraphs would be too much. If you copy, copy a sentence, put in quotation marks and cite appropriately (in the same way as citing any other research). In most cases, you would not be copying words, but drawing on the ideas or findings that you published, then paraphrasing, summarising, discussing and writing about them in a different way, and always cited appropriately. Proper citation just means following your university's normal citation guidelines ie including author's surname and year beside ideas taken from a source, and including page numbers as well if you use a quote. You might find my book chapter helpful. Chapter How much can you copy?
Your paper once published is just like any other publication. You must treat your paper the same way you treat other reference papers while writing your thesis. That is to say, do not copy-paste. That would be self plagiarism. The best you can do is to add more to your published work by adding more sentences/paragraphs (dilute the paper) as well as paraphrase the existing sentences (in your own publication).
Additionally, if you are copying an entire paragraph as such from your published paper, then you must have them in double quotes. Nonetheless, it is advisable not to copy from your publications as it is. Try paraphrasing.
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