Generative AI Policy

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted Technologies

CAUCHY allows the limited and responsible use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies to support manuscript preparation, for example to improve language, readability, organization, literature mapping, translation, or technical presentation. These tools must not replace the authors' own critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, scientific judgement, analysis, interpretation, or original contribution. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, originality, validity of references, and final content of the submitted and published work.

AI tools must not be listed as an author or co-author because authorship requires human accountability, approval of the final manuscript, and responsibility for the integrity of the work. Authors must carefully review, verify, and edit any AI-assisted output before it is included in the manuscript. AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, results, mathematical proofs, references, citations, images, figures, or any other research content.

If AI tools are used as part of the research method, data analysis, code development, modelling, or visualization workflow, the use must be described transparently and reproducibly in the Methodology section, including the tool or model name, version where available, developer or provider, purpose of use, and the authors' verification process.

Authors must protect confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, unpublished manuscripts, research data, and third-party rights when using any AI tool. Authors should not upload confidential, sensitive, copyrighted, or personally identifiable material to an AI system unless they have verified that the tool's terms and privacy protections permit such use and do not allow the uploaded material to be retained, shared, or used for model training beyond the service requested.

Use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation must be disclosed in a separate section before the References, entitled Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted Technologies. Basic spelling, grammar, and punctuation checks that do not substantially change the content, structure, analysis, or interpretation of the manuscript do not require disclosure.

Where disclosure is required, authors should use the following format:

During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [name of tool/service] for [purpose of use]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed, verified, and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.

If no generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were used, authors should state:

No generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were used during the preparation of this manuscript.

This policy is adapted from Elsevier's guidance on generative AI policies for journals: Elsevier, Generative AI policies for journals, accessed 5 July 2026.