Generative AI Policy

Archipelagic Studies in Language, Literature, and Education (ASLLE) recognizes the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in scholarly work while maintaining the principles of transparency, accountability, originality, and research integrity.

Generative AI tools, including large language models and similar technologies, cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship is limited to individuals who meet the journal's authorship criteria and who can take full responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work.

Authors must disclose any substantive use of generative AI in preparing a manuscript, including its use to generate or substantially revise text, conduct or support analysis, produce code, tables, figures, images, or other scholarly content. The disclosure should identify the AI tool used and explain its purpose. Routine spelling, grammar, formatting, or language-support tools that do not generate substantive scholarly content do not normally require disclosure.

Authors remain fully responsible for all AI-assisted content. They must verify the accuracy of factual statements, quotations, references, citations, data, and other material produced or suggested by AI tools. AI-generated content must not result in plagiarism, fabricated references, falsification, misrepresentation, or infringement of third-party rights.

Editors and reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts, unpublished data, or confidential peer-review materials must not be uploaded to external generative AI systems when doing so could compromise confidentiality, intellectual property, or data protection.

Failure to disclose substantive use of generative AI, or the use of AI in ways that compromise research integrity, may be addressed in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics and Malpractice Policy.