The Use of AI in Manuscript Preparation
Meteoritics and Planetary Science has adopted Wiley's guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies in the preparation of manuscripts, available at Wiley's AI Guidelines for Authors. Authors should review these guidelines in full prior to submission.
Consistent with Wiley's policy, if AI technology has been used to substantially edit, develop, or translate any portion of a manuscript, this use must be disclosed transparently and in detail, including the tool name/version and the purpose and extent of its use, in the Methods or Acknowledgments section. Tools used solely for spelling, grammar, or general copyediting are exempt from this disclosure requirement. However, this exemption can overlap in practice with non-exempt tasks like restructuring arguments, reorganizing sections, or improving document flow, and when in doubt, authors should err on the side of disclosure. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of all submitted content, including verifying any AI-generated text, citations, data, or analysis before submission.
Authors should be aware that inputting unpublished manuscript text, data, or other confidential research materials into a public or third-party AI/LLM tool may not preserve confidentiality. Many AI platforms retain, log, or use submitted content to train future models, and once entered, authors may lose control over how that material is stored, reused, or disclosed. Authors should review the terms of use of any AI tool carefully before entering unpublished work, and should not assume that content shared with an AI platform remains private.
Special note to reveiwers
While Wiley's general AI guidelines permit reviewers limited use of AI tools for certain tasks, MAPS has adopted a stricter policy. You may not use AI or LLM tools at any stage of evaluating your assigned manuscript, including uploading the manuscript text, associated data, or your own notes on the manuscript to an AI platform. Doing so risks exposing unpublished, confidential work to a third party without the authors' consent. Accepting a review assignment constitutes agreement to this restriction.