Bibliography and quote exclusion definitions
For papers written in English
Bibliography exclusion
Turnitin's machine learning algorithm understands what elements of the paper to exclude from a submission and dynamically removes them from the Similarity Report. Users don't need to specify a specific bibliography section of their paper; we'll do that for you!
Beginning and terminating phrases are still used as a fall back in the rare event of our machine-learning algorithm is unavailable at the time of submission. You can resubmit your paper at a later date to take advantage of this advanced exclusion option.
Quote exclusion
Supported marks
Turnitin will disregard any matches that use the following quotation marks:
"..." | «...» | »...« | „…“ | 《...》 | 〈...〉 | 『...』 |
Unsupported marks
Turnitin will not disregard matches using single quotation marks.
'...'
Block quotations
Turnitin will exclude block quotation (an indented block of text) when the original file is a .doc or .docx file.
For papers not written in English
Bibliography
Turnitin can automatically exclude content from a Similarity Report so you can better tailor it to your assignments. We look for specific headings within a submission to understand the beginning and end of what should be excluded.
Turnitin will detect the following keywords and disregard any matches between them:
Beginning phrases
- work cited
- works cited
- citations
- literature
- literature cited
- references and further reading
- reference list
- Resources Directory
- additional reading
- additional sources
- annotated bibliography
- article cited
- bibliographic record
- bibliographical references and notes
- bibliography cited
- citation
- cited
- cited articles
- cited references
- cited works
- endnote
- endnotes
- footnote
- footnotes
- further information
- further reading
- key references
- list of literature
- list of references
- literary sources
- literature reviewed
- literature used
- literatures
- literatures cited
- previous work
- previous works
- published work
- published works
- reference notes
- references and links
- references index
- references list
- references section
- referred articles
- selected references
- selected works
- selective bibliography
- sitography
- source link
- source list
- sources
- sources cited
- used literature
- used sources
- works received
- textbooks
- reference
- references
- reference cited
- references cited
- reference and note
- references and note
- reference and notes
- references and notes
- reference & note
- references & note
- reference & notes
- references & notes
- resource
- resources
- bibliography
Terminating phrases
When the document reaches any of the following words in the paper, it will resume the similarity check:
- appendix
- appendices
- glossary
- table
- tables
- acknowledgment
- acknowledgments
- acknowledgement
- exhibits
- acknowledgements
- figure
- figures
- chart
- charts
Quotes
Supported marks
Turnitin will disregard any matches that use the following quotation marks:
"..." | «...» | »...« | „…“ | 《...》 | 〈...〉 | 『...』 |
Unsupported marks
Turnitin will not disregard matches using single quotation marks.
'...'
Block quotations
Turnitin will exclude block quotation (an indented block of text) when the original file is a .doc or .docx file.
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