Mammalogy Notes adheres to COPE's position on the use of Artificial Intelligence tools in its manuscripts.
Mammalogy Notes is in agreement with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for the refinement, correction, editing or formatting of the manuscript to improve the clarity of the language.
However, AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.
Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the acknowledgements (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.