ELA Editorial Policy - Artificial Intelligence

The ELA Editorial Policy on Artificial Intelligence

ELA Authors

The authors of the papers submitted to The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA) must adhere to the following rules on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs)..

1. Listed authors must be human beings, because authors must be able to be accountable for the work, disclose conflicts of interest, as well as hold and assign copyright. It is not permittable to list LLMs as coauthors; if an LLM's contribution was decisive for the research, this should just be mentioned as an acknowledgement.
   
   
2. Every co-author assumes full responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, originality, and copyright of any submitted content. This includes the abstracts/summaries of the work, discussions of related work, theorems and proofs, algorithm statements, analysis/discussion/implementation/presentation of numerical experiments, and citations. Any input from an LLM must be carefully verified by the authors before submission.
   
   
3. Authors are permitted to use LLMs during the preparation of a manuscript. If this happens, we recommend that their use is acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section of the work.
   
   
4. In case of a controversy arising from the use of LLMs or other AI tools, the Editor(s) in Chief of ELA and the ILAS Journals Committee have the final decision on whether the use of the AI tool was appropriate and in line with general research ethics.

 

ELA Referees

ELA referees are not permitted to upload papers under review to third-party AI platforms that retain data or use inputs for training, in order to protect the confidentiality of material provided by the author during the peer review process.

 

Note: This policy will be kept under regular review and changed as necessary in light of further technological developments in this area. Last updated 6 June 2026.