Journal AI Policy
- Eludamos does not accept manuscript that use chatbots as co-authors. The reason for this is that LLMs do not satisfy our authorship criteria as they cannot bear responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the content they generate.
- Eludamos does not accept manuscripts that use chatbots as sources. The reason for this is that content generated by LLMs is not reproducible or traceable and can accidentally contain third-party material without identifying it as such.
- Eludamos does accept manuscripts that use chatbots as tools supporting research and writing processes (scaffolding). Acceptable purposes include research design, the formulation of RQs, proofreading, feedback on structure and style, general brainstorming, translations, data analyses, data visualization, and coding. Authors who use generative technologies in this manner need to acknowledge this at relevant locations in their manuscripts. This can be done in the following manner:
- For general scaffolding such as brainstorming, feedback on structure and style, research design, or proofreading, please add an acknowledgement at the end of your manuscript that contains information about the type of language model or other tool you employed as well as when and how you used it.
- For translations, please add a footnote to the part translated that contains information on the type of language model (or other machine translator) you employed, the prompt(s) you used, the date, and the original version of the text.
- Using LLMs for data analysis and coding purposes constitutes a significant methodological intervention. In such cases, please add a part to the methods section of your manuscript where you explain how you proceeded including the type of language model you employed, the prompt(s) you used (excluding the material to be coded or analyzed), the date, and a link to the dataset.
- When using chatbots for data analysis: Please keep in mind that most generative LLMs that are freely available do not adhere to accepted standards for the handling of personal or sensitive data. Make sure you only use models that have been approved by your research institution or other reliable bodies. Please describe how you used the language model in the methods section of your manuscript.
4. Before using LLMs or other generative technologies, please consider the ecological and human costs connected to these applications.
