Artificial Intelligence Use Policy

Cadernos de Linguística recognizes the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in academic publishing and research. AI tools can support authors, reviewers, and editorial teams by improving efficiency, clarity, and accessibility. However, their use must be transparent, carefully monitored, and aligned with principles of integrity, accountability, and respect for scholarly standards.

This policy governs AI use by authors and by the journal in editorial and communication workflows, ensuring that AI supports—never replaces—human judgment, creativity, and responsibility.

Use of Artificial Intelligence by Authors

The following guidelines describe the appropriate use of AI in manuscripts submitted to Cadernos de Linguística. Failure to comply may result in manuscript rejection or editorial sanctions.

1. Mandatory Disclosure of AI Usage
   Authors must declare any use of AI tools in manuscript preparation. The models or tools must be clearly identified, along with their role in data analysis, writing, or any other stage of the research process. This information must appear in the Methods section and in an AI Usage Statement at the end of the manuscript.

2. Explanation of AI Contribution
   Authors must provide a clear and detailed account of how AI was used. Specify whether AI assisted with text drafting, literature review, data analysis, hypothesis generation, or any other aspect of the research. All prompts used must be publicly shared, with a corresponding link in the Data Availability Statement.

3. Human Oversight and Responsibility
   AI outputs must undergo rigorous review by the authors. AI is a supporting tool, never a substitute for expertise. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of their work and must verify all AI-generated information to ensure accuracy and proper citation, confirm that AI-assisted analyses and interpretations are verifiable and reproducible, and review AI-generated summaries and syntheses to remove bias, distortion, or omission.

4. Prohibition of Misleading or Fabricated AI-Generated Content
   AI must not be used to produce misleading, plagiarized, or fabricated research. This includes: (i) avoiding false or incorrectly attributed references; (ii) prohibiting synthetic or manipulated data unless clearly labeled and justified; and (iii) ensuring AI-generated figures and tables accurately reflect research findings.

5. Compliance Monitoring and Consequences
   The journal may employ automated support tools to identify indications of undisclosed AI use or other formal inconsistencies. Such indications will never be treated as conclusive evidence without human review by a member of the editorial team. Confirmed violations may result in immediate rejection and other sanctions. The journal maintains strict policies on authorship, plagiarism, and data reliability.

6. AI as a Support Tool, Not an Author
   AI cannot be credited as an author. While it may contribute technically, it bears no intellectual responsibility. All responsibility rests with the human authors.

By following these guidelines, researchers show their commitment to scientific integrity and the ethical use of AI.

Use of Artificial Intelligence by Cadernos de Linguística

Consistent with the principles above and with COPE and SciELO guidance, Cadernos de Linguística uses AI tools in a limited way to support internal editorial and communication workflows. These tools are applied transparently, responsibly, and always under human supervision, to optimize processes and improve text clarity.

The journal's AI applications include:

1. Public and Private Communication
   We use AI tools to draft and review social media and email content to make our messages clearer and more accessible. All material is reviewed by human editors before publication.

2. Internal Text Review
   AI tools may assist with grammar, spelling, and style checks for texts on the website and in official journal documents. These resources are strictly supportive and never replace editorial judgment.

3. Initial Manuscript Screening
   Upon submission, manuscripts will be processed by computational tools with AI components for exclusively formal and administrative purposes, before entering the editorial workflow. This initial screening may include, among other checks: file structure and formatting, presence of mandatory sections, word count, basic reference completeness, documentary compliance, required supplementary materials, and preliminary correspondence between the submission and the journal's editorial categories or declared scope.

   This procedure does not constitute an assessment of scientific merit. The tools used do not replace human editorial judgment, do not make autonomous editorial decisions, and do not by themselves determine peer review assignment, rejection, revision requests, or acceptance. All communications to authors arising from the screening are validated by a member of the editorial team.

   Confidentiality and processors. Submitted manuscripts are treated as confidential. Where the screening involves an external service provider, processing will occur only to the extent necessary for the execution of the service, under the journal's instructions, subject to a contractual obligation of confidentiality, security measures compatible with applicable law, and a prohibition on using submission content to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve public AI models.

   Author acknowledgement. By submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author declares awareness that the submission will undergo formal AI-assisted screening, under the terms of this policy and the journal's Privacy Policy, and agrees to this processing for the purposes of initial editorial management. This acknowledgement is collected through a dedicated field in the submission system.

   Human oversight and right to information. The journal does not make editorial decisions based solely on automated processing. Nonetheless, the corresponding author may request clarification about the formal screening carried out and human review of any formal issue communicated by the editorial team, by contacting cadlin@abralin.org.

   Authors' responsibility regarding submitted content. Authors must ensure that files submitted to the journal comply with applicable law and the ethical standards of research, including with regard to the presence of personal data and sensitive personal data in the manuscript and supplementary materials.

For questions about our AI policy, please contact the editorial team at cadlin@abralin.org.