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Editorial Guidelines

Authorship and AI Tools

MPA Journals recognizes that there are a myriad of AI tools available, and our policy is designed to guide their responsible use while maintaining the integrity and excellence of scientific publishing in this journal. Authors using AI tools should use them transparently and ethically, in accordance with the Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Research and following the best practices and policies detailed below. Authors are responsible for all submitted content including the accuracy of AI-generated content as well as referencing associated material as appropriate.

Transparency

All use of AI tools should be disclosed within the submission. As stated in each journal's Author Guidelines:

"The use of AI tools for text or image generation should be disclosed in the manuscript within the Acknowledgment section with a description of when and how the tools were used. For more substantial use cases or descriptions of AI tool use, authors should provide full details within the Methods or other appropriate section of the manuscript."

Authorship

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility and accountability for the published work. As such, AI tools should not be included in the authorship list.

Instead, AI tools should be acknowledged and mentioned transparently (as described in the Transparency guidelines).