Increased use and availability of electronic text matching software (such as ithenticate ) to screen submissions to peer reviewed journals, means that Editors are increasingly being made aware of potential cases of plagiarism (Debnath 2016). While there are no true figures for academic plagiarism within submissions to peer-reviewed journals (Gasparyan et al 2017), anecdotally upwards of 25% of all submissions require some level of follow up and investigation. The text matching details provided by software such as ithenticate supports Editor decision-making, and assists Editors to explore all incidences of text matching fully.