American Meteorological Society AI Guidelines

Policy Summary

The American Meteorological Society permits authors to use AI tools in preparing manuscripts, including for writing-related work such as language refinement and editing. Authors must disclose how and which AI tool was used when the use is substantive. Authors remain fully responsible for all manuscript content, including any portions produced by an AI tool. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

AMS permits authors to use AI tools when writing a manuscript, producing images or graphical elements, or collecting and analyzing data. When such use is substantive, authors must disclose how the AI tool was used and identify which tool was used in the appropriate section(s) of the paper. Authors remain fully responsible for all manuscript content, including any portions produced by an AI tool, and AI tools are not permitted to be listed as authors. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

The publisher does not provide explicit guidance on this classification.

Evidence

• Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

When authors make substantive use of AI tools in the collection and analysis of data, they must disclose both how the AI tool was used and which tool was used in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including any parts produced by an AI tool. The policy does not otherwise provide specific guidance on using AI tools for refining or formatting data reported in the manuscript beyond these disclosure and responsibility requirements. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

The American Meteorological Society permits authors to use AI tools to produce images or other graphical elements. When authors make substantive use of an AI tool for producing images or graphical elements, they must disclose in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections how the tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for all manuscript content, including any parts produced by an AI tool, and are liable for any breach of publication ethics. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

Authors remain fully responsible for all content in their manuscript, including any portions produced using an AI tool. When authors make substantive use of AI tools in producing images or graphical elements of the paper (including visualizations), they must transparently disclose in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. The policy does not specify additional requirements uniquely for data visualizations beyond these disclosure and responsibility statements. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

AMS journals expect authors to make their software available for others to use and to include a data availability statement in the submitted manuscript explaining how the data and/or software can be obtained. If the code is not publicly available, authors must make it available to reviewers at the time of submission and make it publicly available with proper documentation at the time of publication. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors of papers published in AMS journals are expected to make their data and software available for others to use... Authors should include a data availability statement at the end of their submitted manuscript (before the acknowledgments) that explains how the data and/or software can be obtained. If using code that is not publicly available, it is the author's responsibility to make it available to the reviewers at time of submission and to the public with all proper documentation at the time of publication.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

The American Meteorological Society permits authors to use AI and AI-assisted technologies only to improve the language and readability of their manuscripts. These technologies are prohibited from being used as a source for citations (including when assisting with gathering references). Human authors are accountable for the accuracy of citations in any work submitted to AMS.

Evidence

• Authors should use artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies only to improve the language and readability of their papers. These technologies should not be used as a source of text, citations, figures, or data for the AMS publication. Human authors are accountable for all aspects of their work that is submitted for publication with AMS, including the accuracy of citations, the absence of plagiarism (including self-plagiarism), and the appropriateness of the content.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/

Policy Summary

The American Meteorological Society requires authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the collection and analysis of data to transparently disclose, in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections, both how the tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for all manuscript content, including any portions produced by an AI tool, and are liable for any breach of publication ethics arising from that content. Beyond these transparency and author-responsibility requirements, the policy does not explicitly address presenting AI-generated content as though it were original research data or results from non-machine sources. The policy does not specify human review requirements for this classification.

Evidence

• Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. Authors who make substantive use of AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the appropriate data/methods/materials sections of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Source

• https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/author-disclosure-and-obligations/