Journal of English Language Teaching and Education (JELTE) recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI and AI-assisted technologies, can support researchers and authors in various stages of academic work. At the same time, the use of AI must not compromise academic integrity, originality, transparency, confidentiality, or the responsibility of human authors.
Authors may use AI-assisted tools for limited purposes such as language improvement, grammar checking, translation, proofreading, formatting assistance, or generating ideas during the preparation of a manuscript.
However, authors remain fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including the accuracy of information, originality, interpretation of findings, citations, references, and conclusions.
AI-generated content must not be presented as original human scholarly work without appropriate disclosure and verification.
Authors should carefully check all AI-assisted content because AI tools may produce inaccurate information, fabricated references, inappropriate interpretations, or other errors.
Authors must disclose the use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools when such tools have been used substantially in the preparation of the manuscript.
The disclosure should identify:
A suitable statement may be written as follows:
“The authors used [name of AI tool] for [describe the purpose, e.g., language editing and grammatical improvement]. The authors reviewed and verified all AI-assisted content and remain fully responsible for the final content of the manuscript.”
Routine use of basic spelling, grammar, or reference-management software does not normally require a separate disclosure unless the tool uses generative AI in a substantive manner.
AI tools, including ChatGPT and other generative AI systems, cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of a manuscript.
Authorship requires human responsibility for the research, approval of the final manuscript, accountability for the work, and the ability to respond to questions concerning the research. AI systems cannot fulfill these responsibilities.
Authors remain responsible for ensuring that:
The use of AI does not transfer responsibility for the manuscript from the authors to the AI system or its developer.
Authors must not use AI systems in a manner that compromises research participants' privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, or institutional requirements.
Sensitive, confidential, personal, or unpublished research data should not be uploaded to public or third-party AI systems unless appropriate authorization, security safeguards, and ethical requirements have been satisfied.
Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts and peer-review materials.
Reviewers must not upload submitted manuscripts, unpublished research, reviewer reports, or confidential editorial correspondence to public or third-party generative AI systems for analysis, summarization, evaluation, or generation of review comments unless explicitly authorized by the Editor and consistent with applicable confidentiality requirements.
Reviewers remain responsible for the accuracy, fairness, and confidentiality of their reviews. AI tools must not replace the reviewer's independent academic judgment.
Editors may use appropriate AI-assisted tools for limited administrative or editorial purposes where confidentiality, security, and publication-ethics requirements are maintained.
Editors must not allow AI systems to make final editorial or publication decisions independently. Decisions concerning acceptance, revision, rejection, misconduct, corrections, or retractions must remain under human editorial responsibility.
Confidential manuscript information must not be disclosed to external AI systems without appropriate authorization and safeguards.
The use of AI-generated images, figures, tables, audio, video, or other materials must comply with applicable copyright, ethical, and research-integrity requirements.
Authors must disclose the use of AI-generated or AI-modified materials when such use is substantive and relevant to the published work. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the use of such materials does not infringe intellectual property rights or misrepresent research evidence.
AI-generated images or other visual materials must not be presented as authentic research evidence when they do not represent actual observations, data, or experimental results.
Failure to disclose substantive AI use, fabrication of information or references using AI, plagiarism, inappropriate manipulation of research materials, disclosure of confidential information, or other misuse of AI may be considered a violation of JELTE's publication ethics policies.
Where concerns arise, the Editor may request clarification or supporting information from the authors and may take appropriate action, including revision, rejection, correction, Expression of Concern, or retraction, depending on the nature and severity of the violation.
JELTE is committed to responsible and transparent use of AI while ensuring that human authors retain full responsibility for the scholarly integrity, originality, and reliability of published research.
