Scope
This policy governs the use of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in manuscripts submitted to Dil Dergisi and in the journal’s review processes. It binds authors, reviewers and editors alike and follows COPE guidance. Authors submitting to the journal are deemed to accept this policy.
Authorship and accountability
AI tools may under no circumstances be listed as an author or co-author, nor cited as a source in the reference list. Authorship requires a substantive intellectual contribution to the design of the study and to the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, together with accountability for the accuracy of the result. AI tools cannot bear that responsibility. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, validity and originality of any AI assisted content.
Permitted uses
Subject to declaration, the following uses are permitted: editing of language, spelling and fluency; translation support, with the final text checked by the author; literature searching and summarisation; writing and debugging statistical or analytical scripts.
Prohibited uses
Having AI write the core claims, hypotheses or scholarly interpretation in the introduction, discussion or conclusion is prohibited. Generating data such as synthetic language data, participant responses or grammaticality judgements is prohibited. Citing non existent sources is unacceptable and authors must verify the authenticity of every reference. Generating or altering figures that represent language data, such as spectrograms, tree diagrams, corpus output and distribution charts, is prohibited.
Declaration
A declaration is mandatory and is given under the heading Statement on the Use of Generative AI in the article template, before the reference list. Where no AI was used, this must also be stated explicitly. Where AI was used, the tool and its version, the section and purpose of use, and confirmation that the outputs were checked by the authors must be given.
Example declaration where AI was used:
During the preparation of this work, ChatGPT (GPT-4) was used to check the language and fluency of the English text. The suggested changes were reviewed and verified by the authors and the scholarly content, data analysis and findings of the study are entirely the authors’ own.
Example declaration where AI was not used:
No generative artificial intelligence tools were used in the preparation of this research.
AI as an object of research
Given the scope of the journal, AI output may itself constitute research data, for example in an analysis of a language model’s Turkish production. In such studies the model and version, date of access, prompts and sampling procedure must be detailed in the Method section. Raw outputs should where possible be deposited in an open repository and cited by DOI. The prohibition on generation does not apply in these cases, since AI is the phenomenon under investigation rather than a tool.
Reviewers and editors
Submissions are confidential. Reviewers and editors may not upload manuscripts, supplementary files or review reports to AI tools at any stage of the review process. Doing so infringes the authors’ rights and transfers the content to third party systems. Review reports must reflect the reviewer’s own assessment and must not be AI generated. Editors may not base acceptance or rejection decisions on AI output.
Breaches
Where undeclared use of AI is suspected, the editors request an explanation from the author. Assessment is not based on the output of AI detection software, whose reliability is limited and which does not constitute evidence in itself. If the explanation is found insufficient, the manuscript is rejected. Where a breach is identified after publication, a correction or retraction notice is issued in accordance with COPE guidance.