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Excluding content from the Similarity Report
Content exclusions can include removing any matches to the bibliography or any places within a document where the author has used quotes.
Changing your settings will only change the setting for future uploads. If required, previously uploaded documents will need to be individually adjusted.
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Using the checkboxes, select the content types you would like to exclude from all future documents:
Bibliography: For papers written in English, Turnitin's machine learning algorithm is able to understand what elements of the paper should be excluded and dynamically remove them from the Similarity Report without the need for the uploader to specify a specific bibliography section of their paper. For papers written in a non-English language, Turnitin looks for a beginning and terminating phrase to work out where the bibliography is. Learn more.
Quotes: Turnitin looks for all content between quotation marks and excludes this text from the report. A list of supported quotation mark types can be found here.
Citations: Turnitin uses machine learning to check every line in a document. If we find something we can tell is an in-line citation, it won't be included in the Similarity Report. The quoted part of the citation can be removed using Exclude Quotes.
Small Matches - # Words: Turnitin will filter all matches that are less than or equal to the length of the number of words supplied.
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Changes should automatically apply, but select the Done button to confirm and close the side-bar.
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