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Recommended Tools

Advances in Public Law and Crime (PLICE)

Essential academic tools to support originality checking, reference management, manuscript clarity, citation accuracy, and ethical legal scholarship.

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A Note for Authors

To improve manuscript quality and accelerate editorial screening, Advances in Public Law and Crime (PLICE) recommends that all authors use appropriate academic tools before submission. These tools help authors strengthen originality, citation accuracy, reference consistency, language clarity, and ethical compliance. However, the use of any tool does not replace the author’s scholarly responsibility, legal reasoning, source verification, and final accountability for the submitted manuscript.

RESEARCH QUALITY TOOLS

Recommended Academic Tools

Tools are grouped according to manuscript preparation needs.

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Turnitin

Similarity and originality checking

Turnitin may be used to identify textual similarity, duplicated wording, improper paraphrasing, and possible overlap with existing scholarly or online sources.

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iThenticate

Professional plagiarism detection

iThenticate is widely used in scholarly publishing to support originality screening, especially for manuscripts prepared for academic journals.

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Mendeley

Reference management

Mendeley helps authors organize legal and academic sources, manage citations, and prepare consistent reference lists according to journal style.

Visit Mendeley
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Zotero

Open-source citation manager

Zotero supports collecting, organizing, citing, and synchronizing references, including journal articles, legal documents, books, and online sources.

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Grammarly

Language and grammar support

Grammarly may assist authors in improving grammar, readability, spelling, punctuation, and clarity before submission.

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DeepL

Translation and language polishing

DeepL may support translation and language refinement, but authors must carefully verify legal terminology, meaning, and citation accuracy.

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Before Submission

  • Check manuscript similarity and ensure all sources are properly cited.
  • Use a citation manager to avoid missing references or inconsistent formatting.
  • Proofread language, grammar, punctuation, and legal terminology.
  • Verify all statutes, court decisions, reports, article numbers, and web sources.

Important Reminder

Recommended tools are intended to support manuscript preparation, not to replace author responsibility. Authors remain fully responsible for originality, accuracy of legal sources, citation integrity, ethical compliance, and the scholarly quality of the submitted manuscript.

Editorial Recommendation

Authors are encouraged to use originality-checking, citation-management, and language-support tools before submission to improve manuscript quality and reduce delays during editorial screening.

© 2026 Advances in Public Law and Crime (PLICE). Published by PT. Inovasi Analisis Data.

E-ISSN: 3064-5875 | P-ISSN: 3064-6057 | Recommended Tools