BFRONT Journal makes its Generative AI Policy publicly available on the official journal website to ensure that authors, reviewers, editors, editorial staff, and readers can access and understand the journal's requirements regarding the use of AI technologies.

AI systems and AI-assisted technologies cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of submitted or published manuscripts. Authorship requires human accountability, intellectual contribution, and the ability to take responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of scholarly work. All listed authors must meet the journal's authorship requirements and accept responsibility for their contributions.

Authors may use GenAI for permitted supportive activities, including language improvement, grammar correction, manuscript organization, and other appropriately disclosed research-support tasks. AI must not replace the authors' scientific reasoning, critical interpretation, methodological decisions, or independent scholarly contribution.

Authors must disclose the use of GenAI when its use extends beyond basic spelling correction, grammar correction, language editing, and formatting. Disclosure should be provided in an appropriate section of the manuscript, such as the Acknowledgments or a dedicated Declaration of Generative AI Use section.

Any use of AI in research methods, data processing, or analysis must also be described in the Methodology section, where applicable. Authors should follow any additional disclosure requirements specified by the journal.

AI disclosures must identify the AI tool used, its intended purpose, and the nature and scope of its contribution to the manuscript or research process. Authors must confirm that relevant outputs have been critically reviewed and verified and that they accept full responsibility for the final work.

AI-generated content must not be presented in a misleading manner or used to fabricate research findings, references, citations, data, images, or evidence. Authors must ensure that all reported results and supporting sources are authentic and verifiable.

Editors and editorial staff may use appropriate AI-assisted or automated tools for limited administrative support and preliminary screening, including manuscript workflow administration, metadata checks, text similarity screening, preliminary image-integrity checks, and reviewer identification.

Such tools must be used responsibly, with appropriate confidentiality safeguards and human oversight. Automated screening results must be interpreted carefully and must not independently determine editorial decisions. Routine use of automated tools by the journal or its publisher must be disclosed through appropriate public documentation.

Reviewers must not use GenAI to generate, perform, or substantially replace their independent scientific assessment, critical analysis, recommendations, or peer-review reports. The evaluation of originality, methodological rigor, validity, and scientific contribution must remain the reviewer's own intellectual work.

Limited AI-assisted language editing of independently prepared review comments may be permitted only when confidentiality is protected and the use is disclosed to the editor. Reviewers remain responsible for the accuracy, fairness, confidentiality, and integrity of their assessments.

Unpublished manuscripts, figures, tables, supplementary materials, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and other confidential materials must not be uploaded to publicly available AI systems or external AI services that lack appropriate confidentiality and data-protection safeguards.

All decisions concerning manuscript acceptance, rejection, revision, peer-review evaluation, research integrity concerns, and publication actions must be made by qualified human editors based on independent judgment and relevant evidence. AI-generated recommendations and automated screening results must not independently determine editorial outcomes or be treated as definitive proof of research misconduct.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, validity, and integrity of their manuscripts, including all AI-assisted content. Editors and editorial staff remain responsible for editorial actions and decisions made with the support of AI tools, while reviewers remain responsible for their independent assessments.

The use of GenAI does not transfer professional, academic, ethical, or legal responsibility from the individuals involved to the AI system or its provider. All parties must ensure that their use of AI is consistent with the journal's publication ethics requirements.