Generative AI Policy

Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura (JIIF) recognizes that generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies may support academic writing when used responsibly, transparently, and under full human oversight. This policy applies to all authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial staff involved in the submission, review, editing, and publication process of JIIF.

1. Use of Generative AI by Authors

Authors may use generative AI or AI-assisted tools only to improve the readability, grammar, language quality, translation support, formatting, or technical clarity of the manuscript. Such tools must not be used to replace the author's scholarly judgment, critical analysis, interpretation of data, argument development, or responsibility for the accuracy and originality of the work.

Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all content submitted to JIIF, including the accuracy of facts, citations, quotations, data, interpretations, references, and conclusions. AI-generated text must be carefully reviewed, edited, verified, and approved by the authors before submission.

2. Disclosure Requirement

Any use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in preparing the manuscript must be disclosed clearly in the manuscript. The disclosure statement must be placed before the reference list under the following heading:

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process

Authors may use the following format:

During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [name of tool/service] for [purpose, e.g., language editing, grammar checking, translation assistance, or improving readability]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed, edited, and verified the content as needed and take full responsibility for the final content of the manuscript.

If no generative AI or AI-assisted technology was used, authors may state:

The author(s) declare that no generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were used in the writing process of this manuscript.

3. Prohibition of AI Authorship

Generative AI tools, chatbots, large language models, or other AI systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship is limited to human individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation, writing, or revision of the manuscript and who can take responsibility for the published work.

4. Accuracy, Citations, and Research Integrity

Authors must not rely on generative AI to create, fabricate, or verify references, quotations, data, legal texts, religious texts, hadith, Qur'anic interpretation, historical claims, field findings, or other scholarly evidence. All references, quotations, translations, and data must be checked against reliable and traceable sources.

The use of AI-generated or AI-assisted content that results in fabricated references, inaccurate quotations, false data, plagiarism, misleading claims, or unsupported arguments may be considered a breach of publication ethics and may lead to rejection, correction, retraction, or other editorial action.

5. Use of AI-Generated Images, Tables, and Figures

Authors must not submit images, figures, tables, diagrams, or visual materials generated or substantially altered by AI unless such use is scientifically justified, clearly disclosed, and permitted by copyright, licensing, and research ethics standards. Any AI-assisted visual material must be labeled transparently, and authors must be able to explain how it was produced and verified.

6. Use of AI in Data Analysis

If AI-assisted tools are used as part of the research process, including data processing, coding, translation of interview materials, text mining, classification, statistical support, or qualitative analysis, authors must describe this use in the Methods section. The description should include the tool used, the purpose of use, the level of human supervision, and the steps taken to verify the results.

7. Confidentiality in Peer Review and Editorial Process

Reviewers, editors, and editorial staff must treat submitted manuscripts as confidential documents. They must not upload manuscripts, reviewer comments, unpublished data, or any part of the submission to public or external generative AI tools, because this may violate confidentiality, authors' rights, data protection, and publication ethics.

Generative AI tools must not be used by reviewers or editors to replace their own critical judgment, scholarly evaluation, recommendation, or editorial decision. Reviewers and editors remain fully responsible for the content of their reviews, recommendations, and decisions.

8. Editorial Screening and Sanctions

JIIF reserves the right to request clarification from authors regarding the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies. The editorial team may reject a manuscript, request revision, issue a correction, or take further publication ethics action if undisclosed or inappropriate AI use is identified.

Failure to disclose the use of generative AI, listing AI as an author, submitting AI-fabricated references or data, or using AI in a way that compromises originality, confidentiality, or research integrity may be treated as a violation of JIIF's publication ethics policy.

9. Policy Updates

This policy may be updated periodically in response to developments in publication ethics, indexing standards, publisher policies, and international best practices regarding the responsible use of generative AI in scholarly publishing.