Generative AI Policy

For Authors

Authors who use generative artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted technologies in preparing a manuscript must disclose their use in a section entitled “Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Statement”, placed immediately before the References section. The statement must specify the name of the AI tool and explain how it was used.

  • Permitted Uses: AI tools may be used to assist with language editing, improve readability, organize ideas, and enhance manuscript presentation. Authors must carefully review and verify all AI-assisted content before submission.
  • Prohibited Uses: AI tools must not be used to generate, modify, fabricate, or manipulate research data; replace the authors’ scientific analysis, critical judgment, or interpretation of results; or generate citations and references that have not been verified against the original sources.
  • Authorship and Responsibility: AI tools cannot be listed or cited as authors or co-authors. Human authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of all submitted content, including any content produced with AI assistance.

For Reviewers

Reviewers must treat all submitted manuscripts and related materials as strictly confidential. Reviewers must not upload manuscripts, reviewer questionnaires, review reports, correspondence, or any part of the submitted material into generative AI tools.

Reviewers must not use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies to assist in the peer-review process, including to evaluate, analyze, summarize, or generate recommendations concerning submitted manuscripts.

Peer-review assessments must be based on the reviewer's own expertise, critical thinking, and independent scholarly judgment. Reviewers remain fully responsible and accountable for the content of their review reports.

For Editors

Editors must treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents and must not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into an external generative AI tool, as this may compromise authors' confidentiality, proprietary rights, and data privacy.

Editors remain fully responsible and accountable for the editorial assessment, decision-making process, and final editorial decisions. Generative AI must not replace the editor's critical thinking, independent evaluation, or decision-making.

Generative AI may be used by editors only in a supportive capacity, such as improving the language or structure of editorial decision letters or assisting with background literature searches, provided that confidentiality, human oversight, and editorial independence are maintained.