Clio’s Psyche recognizes that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be used in scholarly writing and editing. Their use does not diminish the author’s responsibility for the intellectual content, accuracy, originality, interpretation, documentation, and integrity of a submitted work.
Human Authorship and Intellectual Responsibility
Artificial intelligence tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship belongs to persons who can take responsibility for the ideas, interpretations, evidence, language, and conclusions presented in the work.
AI should assist rather than substitute for the author’s intellectual contribution. Authors must be able to understand, defend, and take responsibility for every part of the manuscript submitted under their name.
Permitted Uses
AI-assisted technologies may be used for purposes such as spelling and grammar correction, language refinement, organizational assistance, or other editorial support.
Authors may also use generative AI for more substantive assistance, including brainstorming, restructuring, summarizing, translation, or drafting or revising text, provided that such use is disclosed when it materially contributes to the submitted manuscript and that the author has independently reviewed and verified the resulting material.
Disclosure
Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI in preparing a manuscript. The disclosure should identify the AI tool and briefly describe how it was used.
Routine spelling, grammar, or typographical correction that does not materially alter the content or intellectual substance of the manuscript does not ordinarily require a published disclosure.
Editors may request additional information concerning AI use when necessary to evaluate the originality, provenance, or scholarly integrity of a submission.
Accuracy and Verification
Authors are responsible for independently verifying all factual statements, quotations, citations, references, historical claims, archival material, and other evidence contained in their manuscripts.
AI-generated citations, quotations, references, historical evidence, archival findings, interview material, clinical information, or other purported source material must never be accepted without verification against the original source.
AI-generated material must not be used to fabricate or misrepresent evidence, sources, data, quotations, personal experiences, interviews, or historical records.
Psychohistorical and Psychobiographical Interpretation
In psychohistorical, psychobiographical, biographical, and psychoanalytic writing, authors must distinguish documented evidence from interpretation and inference regardless of whether AI tools have been used.
Generative AI must not be treated as an evidentiary source for psychological or historical claims about an individual. Responsibility for such interpretations remains with the human author.
Personal and Reflective Writing
In memoir, personal reflection, autobiographical writing, and other first-person contributions, AI must not be used to invent experiences, memories, events, quotations, or observations that are presented as belonging to the author.
Editorial assistance from AI does not transfer authorship of the experience or its interpretation from the human author.
Confidential and Sensitive Material
Authors must exercise particular caution before entering unpublished manuscripts, identifiable clinical material, confidential communications, interview transcripts, personal records, or other protected or sensitive information into external AI systems.
Applicable requirements concerning confidentiality, informed consent, privacy, copyright, and protection of human participants remain fully in force.
Editorial Responsibility
The use of AI does not by itself determine whether a manuscript is suitable for publication. Manuscripts are evaluated according to the journal’s standards of originality, scholarly merit, evidence, intellectual contribution, and integrity.
Failure to disclose significant AI use, fabrication or misrepresentation of AI-generated material, or reliance on unverifiable AI-generated sources may result in editorial action under the journal’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
