Integrity
Use of AI tools
This page states the house rule for generative tools. It sits beside COPE and WAME guidance on chatbots and does not replace the author’s accountability.
Authors
A generative model cannot be listed as an author and cannot receive a CRediT role that implies accountability. If a tool was used for language editing, reference formatting, code scaffolding or figure drafting, name the tool, the version, and the task in the manuscript or cover letter. The authors remain responsible for every claim, citation and image.
Reviewers and editors
A confidential manuscript must not be pasted into a public model. Doing so is a breach of review confidentiality. Tools that run inside the publisher’s own systems, including Tabib Guide, may answer policy questions; they do not referee papers and they do not issue acceptances.
What Tabib Guide is
Tabib Guide is a public assistant trained on this site’s policies. It can point an author to a title or a paragraph of policy. It cannot see your files, cannot assign reviewers, and cannot change a decision.