Expanding on Dickson: Zero plagiarism is ensuring that no quote, paraphrase, figure, table or idea of anyone's paper, article or thesis appears in your paper without proper citation in the text, plus inclusion in your References section.

APA is only one particular style guide. There are other style guides, none of which, by themselves, can guarantee zero plagiarism.

You must maintain an attitude of mind, which meticulously records the source of all you read, and carefully curates it in a document management system, so that the correspondence of document to source is never lost, and carried over into your every paper.

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I add that because you have published your conference paper on the Web, your PDF will fall into the trap of being found "by gadgets" to be similar with your conference paper and raise a false alarm.

Your attached PDF is interesting. Certainly your idea of mandating students to comply with every minute detail of APA Formatting could be used by plagiarism detection software as a hint that something is amiss. My own experience is that the plagiariser does not care about formatting either, and so this gives the game away early on. A small problem is that each discipline and each journal and each university and each department has their own prescribed Style Manual and variations thereto.

I suggest that Punctuation, Formatting, Spelling and Grammar checkers can all be mandated. This is partly because plagiarisers love submitting wildly formatted, misspelled ungrammatical versions of originals in the belief that any checks will not catch them out. My own experience has also been that the weak students who become rushed-for-time panicking plagiarisers do not care two hoots about uniform formatting, spelling and grammar either. They want to take every stupid shortcut.

Whenever the person as a researcher aspire to take few lines for the writing from another original author, it is mandatory to quote all these lines in inverted quote (“...”) and then put an author name, comma and year of publication for in parenthesise (Kale, 2017) and everything the scholars have cited in-text, mandatory inclusion in the reference list that equally everything listed in references must be included in the text. This is the one rule of APA citation style guide. Lots more rule has given by the this style to make your writing as plagiarism free (Zero tolerance)

Zero plagiarism deals with ensuring that no aspect of one's paper is guilty of copying from other person's work without proper citation akin to 'stealing' one's or a person's own (Self-plagiarism) intellectual property. This condition can be maintained if authors:

1. give proper citation to due sources in written papers

2. Paraphrase ideas rather than resorting to massive tracts of people's ideas in verbatim.

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Dickson Adom

Dickson Adom

You are rightly pointed out that what is zero plagiarism?

Expanding on Dickson: Zero plagiarism is ensuring that no quote, paraphrase, figure, table or idea of anyone's paper, article or thesis appears in your paper without proper citation in the text, plus inclusion in your References section.

APA is only one particular style guide. There are other style guides, none of which, by themselves, can guarantee zero plagiarism.

You must maintain an attitude of mind, which meticulously records the source of all you read, and carefully curates it in a document management system, so that the correspondence of document to source is never lost, and carried over into your every paper.

I use http://www.qiqqa.com/Register/70557

I add that because you have published your conference paper on the Web, your PDF will fall into the trap of being found "by gadgets" to be similar with your conference paper and raise a false alarm.

Your attached PDF is interesting. Certainly your idea of mandating students to comply with every minute detail of APA Formatting could be used by plagiarism detection software as a hint that something is amiss. My own experience is that the plagiariser does not care about formatting either, and so this gives the game away early on. A small problem is that each discipline and each journal and each university and each department has their own prescribed Style Manual and variations thereto.

I suggest that Punctuation, Formatting, Spelling and Grammar checkers can all be mandated. This is partly because plagiarisers love submitting wildly formatted, misspelled ungrammatical versions of originals in the belief that any checks will not catch them out. My own experience has also been that the weak students who become rushed-for-time panicking plagiarisers do not care two hoots about uniform formatting, spelling and grammar either. They want to take every stupid shortcut.

its possible but very difficult rather rare.

Zero (copy-paste) action.

Emad

There must be no type of quoting or araphrasing as Emad Kamil calls it Zero(copy-paste) action. Regards

Better to say No plagiarism rather than zero plagiarism

Here is an example where reproducing exact words without quotes is permissible:

I have just written an invited book chapter that is based on a journal article published by the same company as is publishing the book. They wanted an expanded article, and set standards for percent of new content.

Even so, we included an acklowledgement saying thaht this chapter was based on an article previously published in ___(Journal)___ and the content was used with permission. In this case, because the authors and the copyright holders all give permission, reproduction of exact wording with acknowledgement is permissible. Thus it does not fit the definition of plaigerism.

Sometimes we need to quote (copy - paste) a sentence from a reference and referring to it by using two quotations " ", so, is that plagiarism?

Emad

@Emad. No, not unless you forget to include the correct reference details in your References Section.

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This paper is deals with plagiarism minimization may be up to zero level that APA citation style exclusively framed specific rules that researcher have to follow plagiarism free writings while citing another person writing Firstly I would like to say that if you are using another person’s ideas, theories or opinion, you should give adequate credit (properly not improperly) adequacy is important thing here. Second while using statistics, theories, graphs, figure etc. any other similar information, the writers have to take care of the manuscripts not becoming the common knowledge. A manuscript writer also takes care to use quotation marks for written as well as oral ideas. Paraphrasing should used use for the oral and written ideas. In the methodology of paper used this specific certain rules of APA citation style as parameters to the doctoral theses that are applied the APA citation style guide (only) from shodhganga repository of INFLIBNET in India (list of doctoral theses are included in the papers). If the person applies this rule accurate and correct mannerism his or her manuscript will come under zero plagiarism this is the main finding of the study. As you are answered the query that there are so many citation styles that are using in the universities over the world is not my hypothesis to be tested here. The APA citation style guide is a prominent one that researchers are using precisely in the world not only for social science but pure and applied sciences this for citation and referencing.

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