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Bibliography and quote exclusion definitions
For papers written in English
Bibliography exclusion
Turnitin's machine learning algorithm understands what elements of the paper to exclude from a submission and dynamically removes them from the Similarity Report. Users don't need to specify a specific bibliography section of their paper; we'll do that for you!
Beginning and terminating phrases are still used as a fall back in the rare event of our machine-learning algorithm is unavailable at the time of submission. You can resubmit your paper at a later date to take advantage of this advanced exclusion option.
Beginning phrases
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Terminating phrases
When the document reaches any of the following words in the paper, it will resume the similarity check:
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Quotes
Supported marks
Turnitin will disregard any matches that use the following quotation marks (as well as quotations within a quotation):
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'...' | «...» | »...« | „…“ | 《...》 | 〈...〉 | 『...』 |
If single quotes have not been excluded in a submission, it is possible that the word processor used to create the file has labeled the quotes as an apostrophe and will need to be manually excluded. This should not happen with Google, Microsoft, or Apple word processors.
Block quotations
Turnitin will exclude block quotation (an indented block of text) when the original file is a .doc or .docx file.
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