AI Policy

AI authorship
iThenticate will be used to evaluate submitted manuscripts for potential plagiarism, including the assessment of AI–assisted content. Authors may use AI tools solely to enhance language quality, verify grammatical accuracy, and improve the clarity and readability of their manuscripts.
The use of artificial intelligence for any other purposes, including to generating initial manuscript ideas, figures, or diagrams, is not permitted.

AI for peer review
AI tools will not be used at any stage of the peer-review or editorial decision-making process.