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Generative AI
Generative AI Guidance for Authors and Reviewers
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidance for Authors
These guidelines are designed to help you use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools responsibly while ensuring that your work meets the academic, ethical, and professional standards of Saksama: Jurnal Sastra. As an author, you remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of your work. Any use of Generative AI (GenAI) and/or AI-assisted technologies must be acknowledged explicitly and documented appropriately in a Disclosure section within your manuscript.
What is Generative AI (GenAI)?
Generative AI refers to tools that can create or produce content—such as text, images, or data structures—based on user prompts. Examples include large language models like ChatGPT (for text generation or structuring) and image generators like DALL-E. It is critical to exercise caution when using these tools to ensure your manuscript remains an original reflection of your own literary critique, intermedial analysis, and research.
When You Can and Cannot Use AI Tools
| Task | When It Is Permitted (Requires Disclosure) | When It Is Prohibited |
| Proofreading & Editing | Using AI for checking spelling, grammar, or suggesting writing style improvements (e.g., Grammarly, Hemingway). | Using AI to rewrite critical sections of your manuscript, such as the introduction, theoretical framework, or core arguments. |
| Organizing References | Using AI-assisted software to organize citations or format your bibliography (e.g., Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote). | Relying on AI to decide which literary sources to include or to assess the academic quality of references. |
| Generating Ideas | Using AI to brainstorm broad ideas or generate prompts to help overcome writer's block. | Using AI to formulate the main ideas, structural analysis, or postcolonial critique in your manuscript. |
| Creating Visuals | Using AI to create supplementary visuals (e.g., formatting comparative charts or diagrams). | Generating fake data or using AI visuals to replace essential research evidence from films, video games, or primary texts. |
| Corpus & Data Sorting | Using AI data mining tools to organize large volumes of textual data, song lyrics, or metadata for your research. | Using AI to interpret textual findings, identify literary themes, or replace your role in analyzing the narratives. |
| Writing Core Content | Not applicable. AI cannot be used to write manuscript content. | Using AI to write substantial parts of your manuscript, such as the abstract, research argument, analysis, or conclusion. |
General Guidelines for Using AI Tools
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Be Transparent: Always inform readers what AI tools you used and how they assisted your research process. If you used an AI tool for generating ideas, formatting text, or organizing corpus data, it must be clearly stated.
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Disclosure Section: If AI tools were used, you must include a brief statement at the end of your manuscript detailing:
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The specific AI tools used (e.g., ChatGPT-4, Grammarly Premium).
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The precise application of the tool (e.g., "AI was used to extract metadata from video game scripts" or "AI provided grammatical proofreading").
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A clear affirmation that AI did not generate the core analytical content or literary research.
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Academic Integrity: AI tools cannot replace your responsibility to produce original academic content. Ensure that the main arguments, textual readings, and conclusions are entirely your own intellectual output.
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AI and Authorship: AI cannot be listed as a co-author on your manuscript. AI tools lack the legal and ethical capacity to take responsibility for academic rigor. Only humans who contributed directly to the manuscript’s intellectual work qualify for authorship.
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Ethical Use of AI: AI must not be used to create fake citations, hallucinate literary quotes, plagiarize existing critiques, or misrepresent data. AI should only function as an assistive tool to enhance the manuscript development process.
Author Responsibility
You, as the submitting author, are solely responsible for ensuring that all work submitted to Saksama: Jurnal Sastra is original, accurate, and free from ethical violations. You must follow these guidelines to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. For further details on the ethical use of AI in scholarly publishing, authors are encouraged to consult the latest guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidance for Reviewers
While Generative AI possesses potential benefits for processing information, Saksama: Jurnal Sastra strictly requires that reviewers provide their own independent, human feedback on all manuscripts.
To protect the intellectual property, original ideas, and unpublished textual analyses of our authors, reviewers are strictly prohibited from uploading any part of a submitted manuscript into external AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for summarization, critique generation, or language checks. We deeply value the unique critical perspectives, theoretical expertise, and professional experience our reviewers bring to the double-blind peer review process, which cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence.
