Excluding the bibliography

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!

Excluding citations

Turnitin will look for common in-line citation methods using our machine learning algorithm and remove them from the Similarity Report. Both the citation and associated text will be excluded. For quoted text, anything inside the quotes will be filtered out of the Similarity Report. For unquoted citations, the associated sentence will be filtered.

In the rare event that citation and reference detection is not working at the time of submission, Turnitin will default to header-based exclusion. Resubmit your paper at a later time to take advantage of our machine learning exclusions.

Excluding Quotes

Supported marks

Turnitin will disregard any matches that use the following quotation marks:

Unsupported marks

Turnitin will not disregard matches that use the following quotation marks:

Block quotations

Turnitin will exclude block quotation (an indented block of text) when the original file is a .doc or .docx file.