Generative AI Policy

Generative AI may be used transparently as an assistive tool. Human authors remain responsible for manuscript content; AI cannot be listed as an author.

Disclosure

Authors must identify the tool, its version where available, its purpose, and the tasks assisted by AI. Use in analysis, programming, or image generation must be reported in the methods so that it can be assessed. Use in drafting text must be explained in an AI use statement. Authors must verify facts, references, originality, and accuracy.

Restrictions

AI must not be used to fabricate data, participants, references, or research findings. AI-generated images must not be presented as empirical documentation. Personal data, confidential information, and unpublished manuscripts must not be uploaded to AI services without appropriate permission and safeguards.

Editors and reviewers

Editors and reviewers must not submit confidential manuscripts to external AI services that do not guarantee confidentiality. AI assistance that affects an assessment must be disclosed to the editor; decisions and reviews remain human responsibilities. AI detectors must not be used as the sole evidence of misconduct.

Reference: WAME recommendations on AI and scholarly publishing, adapted to DIKOTOM's context.