IJ Press follows the position of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in scholarly publishing.

Authorship

Generative-AI tools (for example, large language models) cannot be listed as authors. They cannot take responsibility for the work, declare conflicts of interest, or approve a final version, and so do not meet authorship criteria.

Disclosure

Authors who use AI tools in any part of manuscript preparation, drafting, editing, code, figures, or analysis, must disclose this in the Methods or Acknowledgements, naming the tool and describing how it was used. Routine grammar and spell-checkers are exempt.

Accountability

• Authors are fully responsible for the entire content, including any AI-assisted portions, and must verify all facts, citations, and outputs. AI-fabricated references or data constitute misconduct.
• AI must not be used to fabricate or alter data, results, or images.
• Reviewers must not upload any part of a submitted manuscript to public or generative-AI tools, as this breaches confidentiality, and must not delegate their scholarly judgement to AI.
• Editors preserve confidentiality and do not enter manuscript content into non-confidential AI systems.