Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can help with language, but they cannot take responsibility for a paper. This policy follows COPE’s position on authorship and AI tools.
Authors
- AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
- Authors may use AI tools to improve language and readability, and must check the result carefully.
- Any other use (for example to analyse data, generate text, images or code) must be described in the Methods or in a declaration at the end of the paper, naming the tool and how it was used.
- Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of everything in the paper, including any content produced with AI help. Invented references or data are misconduct.
Reviewers and editors
- Do not upload submitted papers, or any part of them, to AI tools. This breaks confidentiality.
- Reviews must be the reviewer’s own assessment.