Academic publishing is entering a new era that is full of both challenges and tantalizing prospects due to the outstanding breakthroughs in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).

Our journal firmly maintains the core standards of academic brilliance and ethical behavior while embracing the potential of generative AI to improve scholarly communication. As we traverse this revolutionary frontier in scientific publishing, we hope to cultivate an environment of transparency and honesty by putting these standards into practice.

The following guidelines for authors and editorial members to follow while working with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) are established by the AFRJMS editorial team in recognition of the growing availability and application of GenAI in academic research.

1. AFRJMS publications do not list Generative AI as an author. According to the CRediT taxonomy, an author must be able to accept and take responsibility for the elements of their authorship, something that an AI cannot accomplish.

2. The contribution that generative AI tools contributed to any part of the published study must be acknowledged by the authors. The authors should list the precise tasks that AI was used to accomplish in the acknowledgement section, such as research design, data analysis, data visualization, text production and editing, etc.

3. AFRJMS Reviewers are not authorized to conduct any reviews on AFRJMS articles using generative AI. It can be against authors' intellectual property rights to share reviewed publications with outside AI providers for this reason.

AI Statement: Authors must include a statement on the use of Generative AI or AI-based tools in the Declarations section of the manuscript.