Best practices for research papers, theses, and dissertations: structure, citation accuracy, tone, and revision habits that survive peer review.
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ICMJE and COPE both say no, and neither stops there. Their authorship rules explain exactly which two obligations a language model cannot meet, and what happened to the handful of 2023 papers that tried crediting ChatGPT anyway.
Six ready-to-use AI disclosure statement templates: one each for language editing, literature search assistance, code generation, data analysis, image generation, and no AI used at all. Replace the brackets and go.
A DOI is a persistent identifier, not a dressed-up URL, and APA and MLA disagree about what replaces it when a source does not have one. Here is what a DOI actually is, how to check before assuming a source lacks one, and the exact rule each style applies when it is missing.
A readability formula counts syllables and sentence length, nothing else. That is why a precise methods paragraph scores as difficult and a vague one scores as easy. What a reader in the field actually needs is a different test entirely.
Where you place an AI disclosure statement, what it has to name, and what happens if a journal finds it missing afterward: the mechanics of disclosing AI use in a journal article, publisher by publisher.
A generative AI system is not one fixed thing: providers update and retire models on their own schedule, and a citation without a version string cannot say which one produced your text. Here is where to find the exact label your interface showed, what to do when it will not give you one, and how APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE each treat the version element differently.