I submitted an article today that was rejected within a couple hours, which I have never had an article reviewed that fast. Anyway, the reason stated was, "We accept only completely original content."
Now, I did quote two of my sources, but they were small and did not represent a significant portion of the text. Otherwise, the article was original.The only thing else I could think of was that I had saved the article as a draft, but when I submitted it there were two copies... one as a draft and one as a submission. So, I deleted the draft.
The rejection was not an outright claim of plagiarism. Was it that I did not quote my sources properly or did the system think it was a duplicate submission?
The article was deleted, and rejection states because of that "editors may not be able to answer specific questions about it." So, I have come here hoping for answers.
All in all, it is no big deal. I can use the article elsewhere. I would just like to figure this out so I don't have this problem in the future.
Completely Original Content.
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