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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.
- When you are viewing a similarity report, from the sources sidebar, select
Settings from the sidebar. -
Using the checkboxes, select the content types you would like to exclude from all future documents:
Bibliography: Your Turnitin looks for header phrases associated with terminology relating to a bibliography and excludes any material following it from the Similarity Report. Your Turnitin then looks for a terminating header to resume the similarity check. A full list of beginning and terminating phrases can be found here.
Quotes: Your 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.
Small Matches - # Words: Your Turnitin will remove 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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