Royal Society Of Chemistry AI Guidelines

Policy Summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry requires authors to disclose any use of AI tools involved in producing any part of the manuscript, including use for refinement, correction, editing, or formatting to improve language clarity. This disclosure must be included in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all article content, including any portions produced by an AI tool. The policy requires disclosure but does not prohibit editing use.

Evidence

• Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool. You should also declare all sources of funding and any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at this point.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

The publisher requires authors to disclose any use of AI tools that contributed to producing any part of the manuscript, with that use described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all article content, including any portions produced by an AI tool. The policy does not explicitly state whether using AI tools to write or draft manuscript text is permitted or prohibited beyond these disclosure and accountability requirements. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool. You should also declare all sources of funding and any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at this point.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities
• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/publish-with-us/publish-a-journal-article/chemical-science

Policy Summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry requires authors to clearly disclose any use of AI tools used to produce any part of a manuscript, including use for translation. Such disclosure must be made in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all article content, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Evidence

• Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool. You should also declare all sources of funding and any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at this point.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

Authors must disclose any use of AI tools, including for the collection and analysis of data, and this use must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section of the manuscript. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all content in their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Evidence

• Any use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, producing images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section of the manuscript. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

If authors use AI tools to help create figures, they must confirm that the tool was trained on fully licensed datasets and that the licence terms for using the AI output allow commercial reuse. Any use of AI tools to produce any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for the article's content, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Evidence

• If using AI tools to help create figures, authors must confirm that the AI tool has been trained using fully licensed datasets and the terms of the licence to use the AI output allow commercial reuse. Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

If authors use AI tools to help create figures or visualizations of research data, they must confirm that the tool was trained using fully licensed datasets and that the licence terms for the AI output allow commercial reuse. Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all article content.

Evidence

• If using AI tools to help create figures, authors must confirm that the AI tool has been trained using fully licensed datasets and the terms of the licence to use the AI output allow commercial reuse. Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry requires authors to clearly disclose any use of AI tools in producing any part of a manuscript, including AI use for refining or formatting code. This disclosure must be made in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. Authors are fully responsible and accountable for all article content, including any parts produced by an AI tool.

Evidence

• Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool. You should also declare all sources of funding and any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at this point.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry requires authors to disclose any use of AI tools used in producing any part of the manuscript, including AI use for assisting with gathering references. Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all article content, including any AI-produced portions.

Evidence

• Any use of AI tools in producing any part of the manuscript must be clearly described in the Experimental or Acknowledgement section. The authors are fully responsible and accountable for the content of their article, including any parts produced by an AI tool. You should also declare all sources of funding and any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at this point.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities

Policy Summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry requires authors to be fully responsible for the originality and integrity of all manuscript content, including content produced using AI-assisted technologies. Any supplementary images or data files provided with a submission must be the original data. Suspected data fabrication or falsification is investigated under the publisher's ethics policy. Presenting AI-generated content as original research data or results would constitute data fabrication and is prohibited.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the originality and integrity of the content of the manuscript. Any supplementary images or data files must be the original data. Any suspected cases of data fabrication or falsification will be handled under our ethics policy.

Source

• https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/processes-and-policies/author-responsibilities