Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support language editing, formatting, or preliminary organization, but they must not replace author responsibility, scholarly judgment, data analysis, citation accuracy, or ethical accountability.

• AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
• Authors remain fully responsible for all content, data, citations, interpretations, and conclusions.
• Any substantial AI-assisted writing, translation, image generation, data processing, or analysis should be disclosed in the manuscript when relevant.
• Authors must ensure that AI-assisted content does not introduce plagiarism, fabricated references, privacy violations, or inaccurate claims.