Generative AI Guidelines

Generative AI

Authors are permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process to improve readability and language. The application of generative AI should be subject to close human oversight and control, with authors carefully reviewing and editing the results. AI and AI-assisted technologies should not be listed as authors or co-authors or cited as authors.

Authors must disclose their use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, including the nature of the AI use, by including a statement in the acknowledgments section of the submitted manuscript. The Editor will work with the author to determine how disclosure will appear in the published version of the article, which could include a mention in the acknowledgements, as a citation or as part of a methodology section.

No disclosure is required for the use of software to check grammar and spelling or when used to format references.

 

Text Integrity and Plagiarism

Authors must disclose, at the time of manuscript submission, any actual or potential conflicts of interest that may arise in connection with the submitted manuscript through or as a result of their consulting activities, financial interests, or other non-academic activities.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the work and for ensuring that the work involves no plagiarism. Plagiarism includes the misappropriation of intellectual property and unattributed textual copying of another's work. An author’s substantive re-use in a current submission, without appropriate citation, of text or figures previously published by that author is considered self-plagiarism. Authors must ensure that all sources are appropriately cited and should review their work to guard against biases, plagiarism, and citation errors that may be introduced by AI and AI-assisted technologies.

 

Acknowledgements

Given that authors are responsible for the content of their work, only those individuals who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to an article and agree to be accountable for the content should be credited as an author. In most cases, there will be individuals who made contributions to the research who are not authors, but who nonetheless should be acknowledged. Authors should include with their manuscript a note of acknowledgement, which includes individuals who provided help during the research and writing process. Contributions authors may consider for acknowledgements include helping with research design or creation; writing or proofreading; peer review or feedback solicited by the author from colleagues; and work done by student research assistants.

For research requiring approval by a research ethic board, authors should include information about the ethics approval process with the acknowledgements, including the file number for the approval.