Artificial intelligence

Nineteenth-Century French Studies respects authors’ rights, transparency in the use of journal content, and best practices in scholarly publishing. Specifically as it pertains to generative artificial intelligence, this commitment informs the journal’s policies regarding the creation and dissemination of journal content.

We assume that authors have not used generative artificial intelligence, to generate ideas or find information, in any content they submit to the journal. Any author who does so is required to include a clear, explicit statement along with their submission; if their work is accepted for publication, that statement will appear as the first note of their contribution to the journal (see below for an example).

Additionally, material published by the journal is not available for AI training purposes (as is the case for all publications of the University of Nebraska Press).

These policies remain under regular review, as artificial intelligence is evolving nearly as quickly as human intelligence itself.

Please address any concerns to the Editor at ncfsarticles@gmail.com.

example of statement of having used artificial intelligence:

“I used AI to track the use of [specific term/syntagm/metaphor/argument] across a digitized corpus of X number of nineteenth-century works written in French, and this is what AI found. Based on these findings, I propose a more detailed narrative and analysis (written by me, not by AI), highlighting how….”

Last updated 8 September 2025