artificial intelligence

Indonesian Journal of Community Service in Education (IJCSE), published by PT. Intelektiva Global Nusantara, recognizes the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in manuscript preparation and educational community engagement. The journal requires transparent, ethical, and accountable AI use while ensuring that reported community service activities, documentation, and outcomes remain authentic.

Authors may use AI-assisted tools for legitimate academic and technical support, including:

• Grammar correction, language refinement, and translation.
• Improving readability, organization, and reference formatting.
• Supporting the preparation of educational materials and program planning, with appropriate human review.
• Assisting with coding, analysis, or evaluation of community service data when methodologically justified and transparently reported.
• Preparing illustrative materials when clearly identified and not misrepresented as authentic program documentation.

All AI-assisted content must be reviewed and verified by the authors, who remain responsible for its accuracy and relevance.

• Listing AI systems as authors or co-authors.
• Submitting AI-generated manuscripts without meaningful human intellectual contribution.
• Fabricating community service activities, participant numbers, attendance records, or evaluation data.
• Generating fictitious participant testimonials, interviews, institutional approvals, or impact assessments.
• Presenting AI-generated photographs, videos, or images as authentic documentation of activities.
• Producing unsupported outcomes, conclusions, or claims of program effectiveness.
• Inventing scholarly references or manipulating citations.
• Disclosing confidential community information or personal data to unauthorized AI services.

AI tools cannot qualify as authors because they cannot take responsibility for research integrity, publication ethics, or the accuracy of published content.

Human authors remain fully accountable for the authenticity of the community service program, the accuracy of supporting documentation, the reliability of evaluation results, and all conclusions presented in the manuscript.

Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI in a dedicated Declaration of AI Use section. The disclosure should identify the tool, provider, version when available, purpose, and author verification procedures.

Basic spelling, grammar, and punctuation checks that do not materially alter the manuscript do not require disclosure. Substantive AI-assisted drafting, analysis, educational material generation, and image creation must be declared.

When AI tools are incorporated into community service activities, program delivery, evaluation, or analysis, their role must also be explained in the Methods or Implementation section.

Authors must obtain appropriate permissions for the collection, processing, and publication of photographs, videos, testimonials, institutional documents, and participant information.

Identifiable or confidential community data must not be uploaded to external AI platforms without appropriate authorization and data-protection safeguards.

AI-generated illustrative images must be clearly labeled and must never be presented as photographs or direct evidence of actual community service activities.

Editors and reviewers must protect the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts, reviewer reports, community partner information, participant records, and editorial correspondence.

Such materials must not be shared with unauthorized AI services. Peer-review reports and editorial decisions must remain the responsibility of qualified human reviewers and editors.

The Editorial Board may request clarification, original program documentation, evaluation records, or information about AI use when credible concerns arise.

Automated AI-detection scores are not sufficient on their own to establish a policy violation. Editorial decisions must be based on verifiable evidence and appropriate assessment procedures.

Confirmed violations may result in requests for correction, rejection, withdrawal of acceptance, publication of an expression of concern, or retraction where appropriate.

This policy considers the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and may be updated in response to emerging technologies and developments in scholarly publishing ethics.