Journal of Dance and Embodied Structure recognizes that artificial intelligence tools may assist authors, reviewers, editors, and researchers in certain aspects of academic work, including language editing, translation support, literature organization, coding, data processing, image generation, movement analysis, and digital documentation. However, the use of artificial intelligence must be transparent, responsible, ethical, and consistent with academic integrity.

This policy explains the journal’s expectations regarding the use of artificial intelligence tools and the protection of research integrity in submissions, peer review, editorial decision-making, and publication.

1. General Principle

Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, reliability, ethical compliance, and scholarly integrity of all submitted content, regardless of whether artificial intelligence tools have been used during the preparation of the manuscript.

Artificial intelligence tools may support research and writing, but they must not replace scholarly judgment, original analysis, methodological accountability, ethical responsibility, or authorial responsibility.

2. Definition of Artificial Intelligence Tools

For the purposes of this policy, artificial intelligence tools include, but are not limited to:

• Generative text tools;
• Large language models;
• AI-based translation tools;
• Grammar and language editing tools;
• AI-assisted coding or data analysis tools;
• Image, audio, video, or movement generation tools;
• AI-assisted literature searching or summarizing tools;
• Motion capture analysis systems using AI-based processing;
• Automated transcription, annotation, or classification tools;
• Other algorithmic tools that generate, transform, analyze, or interpret research materials.

3. Permitted Uses of AI Tools

Authors may use artificial intelligence tools in limited and responsible ways, provided that the use is disclosed where appropriate and does not compromise the integrity of the manuscript.

Permitted uses may include:

• Language editing and grammar checking;
• Translation assistance, followed by careful author verification;
• Formatting support;
• Assistance in organizing notes or research materials;
• Transcription support for interviews or performance documentation, subject to consent and privacy requirements;
• Coding assistance for data processing, provided that authors verify the code and results;
• AI-assisted movement, video, image, or motion data analysis, where the method is clearly described;
• Generation of visual materials only where clearly disclosed, ethically appropriate, and not misleading.

Authors must carefully review and verify all AI-assisted outputs before submission.

4. Prohibited Uses of AI Tools

The journal prohibits the use of artificial intelligence tools in ways that mislead readers, reviewers, editors, or the scholarly community.

Prohibited uses include:

• Generating fabricated references, quotations, sources, data, interviews, field notes, or archival materials;
• Creating false or misleading claims;
• Generating or manipulating images, videos, movement documentation, or performance records in a way that misrepresents evidence;
• Producing fabricated research findings, statistical results, coding outputs, or analytical interpretations;
• Using AI-generated text as original scholarship without critical review, verification, and disclosure;
• Submitting a manuscript substantially written by AI without meaningful authorial contribution;
• Using AI tools to disguise plagiarism, duplicate publication, or inappropriate text recycling;
• Uploading confidential, restricted, copyrighted, culturally sensitive, or personal data to AI tools without permission and legal basis;
• Using AI tools to generate peer review reports without permission from the journal;
• Using AI tools in ways that violate consent, privacy, copyright, cultural rights, or research ethics.

5. AI Tools Cannot Be Authors

Artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors. Authorship requires accountability, consent, responsibility for the integrity of the work, and the ability to respond to questions about the research.

Because AI tools cannot take responsibility for the submitted work, approve the final manuscript, disclose conflicts of interest, or be held accountable for errors or misconduct, they do not meet the requirements for authorship.

6. Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for all parts of the submitted manuscript, including any content produced, edited, translated, coded, analyzed, summarized, or generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools.

Authors must ensure that:

• All claims are accurate and supported by evidence;
• All references are real, complete, and correctly cited;
• All quotations are accurate and properly attributed;
• All data, documentation, images, and research materials are authentic and ethically obtained;
• AI-assisted analysis is checked and methodologically justified;
• AI-generated or AI-edited content does not introduce bias, distortion, fabrication, or misrepresentation;
• The final manuscript reflects the authors’ own scholarly judgment and responsibility.

7. Disclosure of AI Use

Authors must disclose the use of artificial intelligence tools when such tools have made a substantive contribution to the preparation, analysis, presentation, or generation of manuscript content.

Disclosure is required when AI tools are used for:

• Generating or substantially revising text;
• Translation assistance beyond routine dictionary use;
• Data processing or statistical assistance;
• Image, diagram, audio, video, or multimedia generation;
• Movement analysis, motion capture interpretation, or automated annotation;
• Literature summarization or evidence extraction;
• Coding, classification, or analytical interpretation;
• Any use that materially affects the research process or manuscript content.

Minor grammar checking, spelling correction, or formatting assistance does not normally require detailed disclosure, unless the tool has substantially altered the content or interpretation of the manuscript.

8. AI Use Statement

Where artificial intelligence tools have been used, authors should include an AI Use Statement in the manuscript. The statement should identify the tool, explain the purpose of use, and confirm that the authors reviewed and verified the output.

Example where AI tools were used:

AI Use Statement: The author(s) used [name of tool] for [specific purpose, such as language editing, translation assistance, coding support, or movement data processing]. The author(s) reviewed, edited, and verified all outputs and remain fully responsible for the content, accuracy, originality, and integrity of the manuscript.

Example where AI tools were not used:

AI Use Statement: The author(s) declare that no artificial intelligence tools were used in the preparation, writing, analysis, or generation of this manuscript.

9. AI and Language Editing

Authors may use AI tools for grammar checking, proofreading, and language editing. However, authors must ensure that the edited text remains accurate, faithful to the original meaning, and appropriate for academic publication.

AI-assisted language editing must not introduce unsupported claims, incorrect terminology, fabricated citations, altered meanings, or misleading interpretations.

Authors remain responsible for the final wording of the manuscript.

10. AI and Translation

Authors may use AI tools for translation assistance, but the translated text must be carefully checked by the authors or qualified language users.

This is especially important for manuscripts involving culturally specific concepts, movement terminology, traditional dance forms, embodied practices, philosophical terms, interview materials, or archival sources.

Authors must ensure that translations are accurate, contextually appropriate, and ethically responsible.

11. AI and Citations

Authors must not rely on artificial intelligence tools to generate references without verification. AI tools may produce inaccurate, incomplete, nonexistent, or fabricated references.

Authors are responsible for checking every citation and reference against reliable sources. All references must correspond to real publications, documents, performances, archives, interviews, or materials used in the research.

Fabricated references may result in rejection, correction, retraction, or further editorial action.

12. AI and Data Analysis

When AI tools are used for coding, classification, transcription, statistical analysis, movement analysis, image analysis, video annotation, or other forms of data processing, authors must describe the tool and method clearly enough for readers and reviewers to understand the research process.

Authors should explain:

• What tool or system was used;
• What data or materials were processed;
• How the tool was applied;
• What outputs were generated;
• How the outputs were checked, interpreted, or validated;
• Any limitations, biases, or uncertainties associated with the tool.

AI-assisted analysis must not be presented as neutral, objective, or authoritative without critical evaluation.

13. AI and Images, Video, Audio, and Movement Materials

AI-generated or AI-modified visual, audio, video, or movement materials must be disclosed clearly. Authors must not use AI-generated or AI-manipulated materials in ways that misrepresent evidence, performance documentation, archival records, fieldwork materials, or research data.

Where AI-generated images, diagrams, movement maps, reconstructions, or visualizations are included, captions should indicate the nature of AI involvement.

Authors must ensure that AI-generated or AI-assisted materials do not infringe copyright, privacy rights, cultural rights, performer rights, or community rights.

14. AI and Practice-Based Research

In practice-based or practice-led research, AI tools may be part of the artistic process, choreographic method, movement generation, interactive performance system, or documentation process. Such use is acceptable when clearly described, critically examined, and ethically justified.

Authors should explain how AI tools contributed to the artistic or research process and how the use of AI relates to the manuscript’s argument, method, and contribution.

AI should not be used to obscure the role of human performers, choreographers, collaborators, communities, or research participants.

15. AI and Human Participants

Authors must be especially careful when AI tools are used in research involving human participants, interviews, movement recordings, performance documentation, identifiable images, bodily data, or personal information.

Authors must ensure that:

• Participants have given appropriate consent where required;
• Personal data and identifiable information are protected;
• Confidential materials are not uploaded to external AI systems without permission;
• AI processing complies with applicable ethical, institutional, and legal requirements;
• Participants are not misrepresented through AI-generated or AI-modified materials.

16. AI, Copyright, and Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for ensuring that AI-assisted work does not infringe copyright or other rights. This includes the use of copyrighted images, video stills, performance documentation, choreographic materials, archival materials, music, scripts, scores, datasets, or other protected content.

Authors should not use AI tools to reproduce, imitate, alter, or derive materials from copyrighted or restricted works in ways that violate legal, ethical, cultural, or contractual obligations.

17. AI, Cultural Sensitivity, and Community Knowledge

Research involving traditional dance, ritual movement, Indigenous knowledge, local community practices, religious performance, or culturally restricted materials must not use artificial intelligence tools in ways that extract, distort, expose, or misrepresent culturally sensitive knowledge.

Authors should consider whether AI processing, translation, visualization, classification, or dissemination may violate community expectations, cultural protocols, or ethical responsibilities.

18. Research Integrity Standards

All submissions must meet the journal’s research integrity standards. The use of artificial intelligence does not reduce the author’s responsibility to follow these standards.

Research integrity includes:

• Honest reporting of research methods and findings;
• Accurate citation and attribution;
• Responsible use of data and documentation;
• Protection of participants and communities;
• Transparency in funding and conflicts of interest;
• Respect for copyright, privacy, cultural rights, and consent;
• Avoidance of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and misrepresentation;
• Correction of errors when identified.

19. Fabrication and Falsification

Fabrication and falsification are serious violations of research integrity. Authors must not invent, alter, manipulate, or misrepresent data, sources, images, documentation, interviews, field notes, performance records, movement analysis, or research findings.

AI tools must not be used to create false evidence, simulated data presented as real data, fabricated interviews, invented fieldwork records, manipulated images, or misleading performance documentation.

20. Plagiarism and AI-Assisted Text

AI-assisted writing does not remove the risk of plagiarism. Authors must ensure that submitted text does not reproduce protected or unattributed material from other sources.

Authors should properly cite all ideas, theories, findings, arguments, images, data, performance materials, or concepts that come from other sources, regardless of whether AI tools were used during writing or editing.

21. Peer Review and AI Tools

Reviewers must treat manuscripts and review materials as confidential. Reviewers should not upload unpublished manuscripts, reviewer reports, author data, images, or confidential editorial materials to artificial intelligence tools or external platforms unless explicitly permitted by the journal.

Reviewers may not rely on AI tools as a substitute for their own scholarly judgment. Review reports must reflect the reviewer’s own evaluation and responsibility.

If reviewers use AI tools in a limited way for language assistance or organization of their own comments, they must ensure that confidentiality is not compromised and that the final review is accurate, fair, and independently assessed.

22. Editorial Use of AI Tools

The Editorial Office may use technical tools to support manuscript management, plagiarism checking, metadata preparation, indexing preparation, formatting, or administrative workflow. Such tools do not replace editorial judgment.

Editors are responsible for editorial decisions and must not rely solely on automated systems to accept, reject, rank, or evaluate manuscripts.

23. Detection of AI-Generated Content

The journal may use editorial judgment, plagiarism checks, reference verification, image review, metadata review, or other tools to assess concerns related to AI-generated or AI-manipulated content.

AI detection tools are not treated as definitive proof of misconduct. When concerns arise, the Editorial Office may request clarification, source materials, data, permissions, revision, or an explanation from the authors.

24. Failure to Disclose AI Use

Failure to disclose substantive AI use may result in editorial action. The appropriate action will depend on the nature and severity of the issue.

Possible actions include:

• Requesting an AI Use Statement;
• Requesting revision or clarification;
• Returning the manuscript before peer review;
• Rejecting the manuscript;
• Publishing a correction after publication;
• Issuing an expression of concern or retraction in serious cases.

25. Corrections and Post-Publication Concerns

If AI-related errors, fabricated content, manipulated materials, undisclosed AI use, copyright concerns, privacy issues, or research integrity problems are identified after publication, the journal may investigate and take appropriate action.

Actions may include correction, clarification, expression of concern, retraction, or notification to relevant institutions where appropriate.

26. Author Checklist for AI Use

Before submission, authors should confirm that:

• Any substantive use of AI tools has been disclosed;
• All AI-assisted outputs have been reviewed and verified;
• No fabricated references, data, quotations, images, or documentation are included;
• All references are real and accurately formatted;
• AI-assisted analysis is methodologically explained where applicable;
• Copyright, consent, privacy, and cultural rights have been respected;
• The manuscript reflects the authors’ own scholarly contribution and judgment;
• The authors accept full responsibility for the final submitted content.

27. Relationship with Other Journal Policies

This policy should be read together with the journal’s related policies, including:

• Publication Ethics;
• Author Guidelines;
• Peer Review Process;
• Copyright and Licensing;
• Data Availability Policy;
• Conflict of Interest Policy;
• Corrections and Retractions;
• Complaints and Appeals.

28. Policy Updates

The journal may update this AI and Research Integrity Policy when necessary to reflect changes in artificial intelligence technologies, research ethics, publishing standards, legal requirements, or editorial practices.

Any updates will be published on this page.

29. Contact

Authors, reviewers, readers, or other parties with questions or concerns about AI use, research integrity, disclosure, or related editorial matters may contact the Editorial Office through the journal’s official contact page.

30. Editorial Note

The responsible use of artificial intelligence requires transparency, verification, accountability, and ethical judgment. Journal of Dance and Embodied Structure welcomes responsible innovation, but it does not accept the use of AI tools to compromise authorship, evidence, originality, confidentiality, consent, copyright, cultural responsibility, or the integrity of the scholarly record.