Avoiding plagiarism in articles?

[Den]

Ok, so I wrote an article for a magazine, and they rejected it saying that it was copied from the internet. However, I never copied anything from internet, but I did some research from the internet. It was necessary to do some before writing something. I think I never cited sources that's why they rejected it. How can I cite sources in my articles? One more thing, I found two or more articles in their magazine which were directly copied from the internet. Those two articles were written by two different authors, but in that magazine they were shown as written by one author!! It is interesting that they accused me of plagiarism, when in fact they are the ones who are plagiarizing. I feel like I have been scammed, and my article is gone in some nasty hands!!

[Jake]

I have heard of article brokers not paying contributors, or appropriating small audition articles without compensation, seems, I hadn't head of real magazines doing such things.

Some plagiarism checking tools: dupeoff.com, copyscape, turnitin.com

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[robert m]

Run you own work thru some plagiarism checkers, such as these listed

[Caligula]

If you didn't cite your sources, then yes, you did plagiarize. So no, it's not that interesting that you have been accused of plagiarism.

As for your accusation that the magazine plagiarizes, there are a number of explanations for what you found that wouldn't mean the magazine has done anything wrong. However, if you dislike the magazine *for any reason*, you don't have to submit your work to them. There are plenty of other publications you could tailor your work to.

What it sounds like is that you submitted work to someone you weren't employed by and that you are unhappy that they rejected it, so now you want to accuse them of doing bad things. If you're going to try to make a go of it as a writer, you're going to need a tougher skin, you're going to need to be careful about how you respond to rejection and you're going to either need to use words like "scam" more precisely or make it clear why a word like "scam" is actually warranted in a situation where it doesn't appear to be.

Good luck with your next piece.