Community Service Research Innovation (CSRI) recognizes that generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies may support scholarly communication when used responsibly, transparently, and ethically. This policy explains what is permitted, restricted, and prohibited in the use of AI by authors, reviewers, and editors. CSRI follows international publication ethics principles and maintains human accountability as the foundation of scholarly publishing.

AI Use at a Glance

1. Purpose of the Policy

This policy ensures that the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies supports academic quality without compromising originality, authorship accountability, research integrity, confidentiality, transparency, data protection, community ethics, and editorial independence. CSRI supports responsible technological innovation while maintaining strict standards for scholarly contribution and publication ethics.

2. Definition of Generative AI

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of producing, transforming, summarizing, translating, analyzing, organizing, or editing content based on user prompts. This may include tools that generate or modify text, images, tables, computer code, data summaries, visual materials, references, or other academic content. AI-assisted technologies include grammar tools, translation tools, reference support tools, coding assistants, and other systems that may influence manuscript preparation.

3. What Is Allowed and Not Allowed

4. Use of AI by Authors

Authors may use AI tools only as supporting tools in manuscript preparation. Acceptable uses include improving clarity, grammar, structure, translation quality, formatting, readability, coding support, and technical workflow assistance. AI tools must not replace the author’s intellectual contribution, methodological responsibility, critical reasoning, interpretation of findings, or scholarly judgment.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, validity, ethical compliance, and scholarly quality of all submitted content. Any AI-assisted output must be carefully reviewed, verified, corrected, and approved by all authors before submission.

5. AI Tools Cannot Be Listed as Authors

AI tools, chatbots, large language models, software systems, or other non-human technologies cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship requires human accountability, approval of the final manuscript, responsibility for research integrity, disclosure of conflicts of interest, and accountability for ethical compliance.

6. Mandatory Disclosure of AI Use

Authors must disclose the use of AI tools when such tools are used beyond basic spelling, grammar, formatting, or reference management. Disclosure is required when AI contributes to text generation, translation, summarization, coding, data interpretation support, literature organization, image generation, or other substantive manuscript elements.

7. Prohibited Uses of AI

8. AI-Generated Images, Figures, and Visual Materials

The use of AI-generated or AI-modified images, graphical abstracts, diagrams, illustrations, or visual materials must be clearly disclosed. Authors must ensure that such materials do not misrepresent data, create false evidence, alter research results, violate copyright, infringe privacy, or mislead readers. AI-generated visual materials involving identifiable persons, sensitive content, confidential data, copyrighted images, or empirical evidence may be rejected when they compromise transparency or research integrity.

9. Verification of Data, Sources, and References

Authors are responsible for verifying all AI-assisted outputs, including facts, citations, references, quotations, formulas, tables, data summaries, statistical interpretations, theoretical claims, and methodological statements. AI-generated references must not be included unless they are independently verified against reliable bibliographic databases, publisher websites, DOI records, official repositories, or other authoritative sources.

10. Use of AI by Reviewers and Editors

11. Confidentiality and Data Protection

Manuscripts under review are confidential documents. Authors, reviewers, and editors must ensure that AI use does not violate confidentiality, intellectual property rights, personal data protection, unpublished research ownership, institutional policies, or legal obligations. Unauthorized disclosure of manuscript content through AI tools may be treated as a breach of publication ethics.

12. Editorial Screening and AI-Related Concerns

CSRI may conduct editorial checks for originality, similarity, citation reliability, image integrity, ethical compliance, data validity, and possible misuse of AI-generated content. The journal does not rely solely on automated AI-detection tools because such tools may produce uncertain or inaccurate results. Editorial assessment will consider manuscript quality, transparency, coherence, verifiability, ethical compliance, author disclosure, and evidence of fabrication or manipulation.

13. Failure to Disclose or Misuse of AI

Failure to disclose substantial AI use, submission of unverified AI-generated content, fabrication of data or references, misuse of AI-generated images, manipulation of peer review, or violation of confidentiality may result in editorial action. Actions may include request for clarification, revision, rejection, correction, expression of concern, retraction, notification to institutions, or other measures consistent with publication ethics standards.

14. Author Responsibility Statement

By submitting a manuscript to CSRI, authors confirm that they are fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, validity, transparency, and ethical compliance of the submitted work. Authors also confirm that any use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies has been properly disclosed, critically reviewed, verified, edited, and approved by all authors before submission.