A. For Authors

1. Permitted Use: Authors may use AI tools to improve language, readability, translation, or manuscript organization.

2. Disclosure: Any use of AI must be disclosed in the manuscript or during submission.

3. Responsibility: Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of all submitted content. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

B. For Editor

1. Permitted Use: Editors may use AI-assisted tools for technical and administrative purposes, such as language checking and plagiarism screening.

2. Editorial Decisions: Editorial decisions must always be made by humans.

3. Confidentiality: Unpublished manuscripts must not be uploaded to public AI platforms.

C. For Reviewer

1. Confidentiality: Reviewers must not upload manuscripts, figures, tables, or any confidential submission materials to public AI systems.

2. Peer Review Responsibility: AI must not be used to generate peer-review reports or replace the reviewer's scientific judgment.

3. Review Integrity: The confidentiality of the peer-review process must be maintained at all times.

D. General Principles

1. Human Accountability: AI may assist scholarly communication but cannot replace human accountability, authorship, editorial judgment, or peer-review responsibility.

2. Transparency: All AI use must be transparently disclosed where applicable.

3. Publication Ethics: AI use must be ethical and consistent with publication integrity standards.