Plagiarism is defined as the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.  Another category of plagiarism is self-plagiarism when author published his own idea, data, and text in different journals when no need of such duplication exists. JMSA uses all means to detect plagiarism. As a matter of quality assurance, a similarity of more than 25 percent in the text of a manuscript will be returned to the author to remove the similarities and reduce the chance of plagiarism. JMSA strictly follows the COPE follow chart in dealing with plagiarised articles. All of manuscripts submitted to JMSA will be screened for plagiarism by using Turnitin.