All manuscripts must be the authors’ original, unpublished work, and the manuscript must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Note that we check all submissions for plagiarism (including self-plagiarism), and we take the matter seriously. See our Ethics Policy at https://www.informingscience.org/Pages/EthicsPolicy. 

Self-Plagiarism. It is easy to avoid self-plagiarism. It is acceptable, even desirable, to build on your prior published works. Just be sure to cite such works in your submission. If you reuse a small portion of wording from your prior works, you need just explain in your paper at the appropriate section of your text that the section is re-using such previously used wording and cite that work.