Authors may use AI tools to support their writing, including language, grammar, readability, structure, formatting and editing. They may also use them to explore literature. Authors remain fully responsible for everything they submit.
Three conditions apply. The ideas, argument and interpretation must be the authors' own. Every source, quotation and verse reference must be checked by an author against the work itself; where a work was not read directly, the cited source must be the one actually read. AI tools must never be listed as authors.
Use must be disclosed in the submission's AI-use statement, naming the tool and what it was used for. Disclosure is never held against a manuscript. Where disclosed use raises a question, the editors may ask the authors to verify or rewrite particular passages.
A statement that no AI tool was used is a statement of fact for which the authors are responsible.
The journal's own use of AI. Chirantan holds itself to the same disclosure standard it asks of authors. The editorial process uses AI tools for triage, screening, reviewer shortlisting and advisory subject-area reading, which involves sending manuscript text to a third-party AI provider. These tools never make an editorial decision, are never counted as peer review, and never replace a human reviewer. The peer-review policy sets out what is used, at which stage, and how to opt out.