COPYRIGHT POLICY
Unless a Prior agreement is reached with the editors, it is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright for their article is transferred to the publisher if and when the article is accepted for publication. This transfer does not negate the authors’ rights to use their own work in the future, as in a book they are writing. The copyright does cover the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprinted, photographic reproductions, microform or any other reproductions of similar nature, and translations.
The Journal holds all material under the Creative Commons license (Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivatives 4.0 International License), allowing non-authors to distribute Journal works independently. All reprints shall give attribution to the authors and Journal. There shall be no further commercial uses of the works by any party other than the Journal. All articles and essays shall be whole and complete, there shall be no derivative works and modifications to the Journal materials.
Duties of Authors
The Use of AI and AI-assisted Technologies in Scientific Writing
This policy has been triggered by the rise of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies which are expected to increasingly be used by content creators. The policy aims to provide greater transparency and guidance to authors, readers, reviewers, editors and contributors.
Where authors use AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, these technologies should only be used to improve readability and language of the work and not to replace key researcher tasks such as producing scientific insights, analyzing and interpreting data or drawing scientific conclusions. Applying the technology should be done with human oversight and control and authors should carefully review and edit the result, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. The authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work.
Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies and a statement will appear in the published work. Declaring the use of these technologies supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, reviewers, editors and contributors and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant tool or technology.
Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite AI as an author. Authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans. Each (co-) author is accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved and authorship requires the ability to approve the final version of the work and agree to its submission. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that the work is original, that the stated authors qualify for authorship, and the work does not infringe third party rights.
Any correspondence on this subject of copyright should be addressed to :
JOURNAL OF FUTURES STUDIES
Department of Education and Futures Design
College of Education
Tamkang University
Tamsui, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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