Uncited copied text
Someone else’s sentence used as your own. The fix is a citation — and if the exact wording matters, quotation marks around it.
- Source located and cited
- Short quotes marked properly
- Long quotes trimmed or rewritten
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High similarity or an AI flag? Send it. We bring it down properly.
Manuscripts and theses rewritten so the similarity score drops because the underlying problem is fixed — then formatted to the exact style your target journal asks for.
Most requested service
Send us the flagged file. We send back a clean one.
A high similarity percentage almost always comes from three causes: text copied without a citation, paraphrasing that stayed too close to the original, and generic machine-sounding phrasing. Each needs a different fix. We work through the report passage by passage, apply the right fix to each one, and re-check before returning it.
- Similarity report read passage by passage
- Missing citations added; direct quotes marked as quotes
- Over-close paraphrase genuinely rewritten, not word-swapped
- Flat AI-sounding text rewritten in your own register
- Meaning, results and technical claims left untouched
- Re-checked and returned with a fresh report
Similarity workflowIn progress
Three causes, three different fixes
Why a word-spinning tool makes it worse.
Synonym spinners lower the number and wreck the sentence. Supervisors notice, reviewers notice, and the technical meaning drifts. We fix the cause instead.
Too-close paraphrase
Restructured, but still recognisably the original’s sentence shape. The fix is writing the idea again from the meaning up.
- Sentence structure genuinely rebuilt
- Technical terms kept accurate
- Source still cited — a paraphrase needs one too
AI-sounding phrasing
Fluent, generic, evenly hedged text that reads like a machine produced it. The fix is restoring a human register.
- Filler and hedging cut
- Specifics and detail put back
- Your own voice and rhythm restored
What actually drops the score: the flagged passages are now properly cited or genuinely rewritten — not disguised. That is the version that survives a supervisor reading it, which a spun version does not.
Where we draw the line
Worth reading before you send anything.
We will
- Rewrite your own work so it reads as yours and cites properly
- Add the attributions that should have been there
- Improve English so non-native writing stops reading as borrowed
- Explain what a similarity or AI report is really telling you
- Format the cleaned manuscript to your journal’s style
We will not
- Disguise plagiarism that is real instead of fixing it
- Use character swaps, hidden text or other detector tricks
- Rewrite a paper somebody else wrote so it passes as yours
- Promise a specific similarity percentage in advance
- Alter data, results or conclusions while rewriting
Being straight about it: if the report shows a whole section lifted from one source, the honest fix is rewriting and citing it — and sometimes telling you the section has to be written again from your own results. We will say that rather than quietly disguise it. See research ethics.
Journal formatting
Name the journal. We format to its guide for authors.
Every publisher has its own rules for headings, references, figures, abstracts and word counts. Getting them wrong is one of the commonest reasons a manuscript is returned before a reviewer ever sees it.
Structure
- Section order and heading levels
- Abstract type and word limit
- Keyword count and format
- Length fitted to the page limit
References
- Style converted to the journal’s own
- BibTeX or EndNote cleaned up
- Missing DOIs and page numbers found
- In-text citations matched to the list
Figures & tables
- Resolution raised to spec
- Captions placed and styled
- Table rules to house style
- Colour and greyscale versions
Submission files
- Word or LaTeX as required
- Blinded version for review
- Highlighted revision copy
- Cover letter and checklist
Templates we work in every week
IEEEtranIEEE AccessElsevier elsarticleSpringer NatureWileyMDPITaylor & FrancisSAGEIETScientific ReportsOverleaf projectsUniversity thesis classes
Next step
Send the report and the manuscript together.
The similarity or AI report plus the file it refers to is all we need in order to quote. Both as PDFs is ideal.