IMPORTANT NOTICE ON THE USE OF AI TOOLS

It is the position of the editorial board, in line with the guidelines of the COPE council that an AI tool cannot be listed as an author of a manuscript. All use of AI tools in the research, creation and writing of manuscripts should be declared by the author(s). Failure to do so could result in rejection of the manuscript.

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.

COPE Council. COPE position - Authorship and AI - English.
https://doi.org/10.24318/cCVRZBms