Use of artificial intelligence (AI)

Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an artificial intelligence tool, and are therefore responsible for any breach of publication ethics. If the submitted manuscript has production components with artificial intelligence, such as tools for the construction and writing of the manuscript, image production, or data collection and analysis, they must be declared in the materials and methods session. AquaTechnica relies on COPE regulations on the use of AI tools in scientific publications, which establishes that AI tools cannot meet authorship requirements as they do not assume responsibility for the submitted work.