Plagrism and AI use Policy

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and ethical publishing. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal must ensure that their work is original, properly cited, and free from plagiarism.

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

  • Copying text, ideas, data, images, tables, or figures from other sources without appropriate acknowledgment;

  • Submitting another person’s work as one’s own;

  • Improper paraphrasing or close imitation of previously published material;

  • Self-plagiarism, including the reuse of substantial portions of an author’s own published work without proper citation or justification;

  • Duplicate or redundant publication of the same research in multiple journals or publication venues.

All submitted manuscripts may be screened using appropriate plagiarism-detection methods during the editorial review process. Manuscripts found to contain significant plagiarism, unattributed material, or unethical reuse of published content may be rejected immediately. If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the journal reserves the right to take corrective actions, including publication of corrections, expressions of concern, or retraction of the article, in accordance with accepted publishing ethics practices.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any copyrighted material reproduced in their manuscripts and for providing accurate citations for all referenced sources.

AI Use Policy

The journal recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies may be used as supportive tools during the research and writing process. However, the use of such technologies must be transparent, responsible, and consistent with scholarly ethics.

Acceptable Uses

Authors may use AI tools for limited purposes such as:

  • Language editing and grammar improvement;

  • Formatting assistance;

  • Reference organization;

  • Translation support;

  • Improving readability and clarity of the manuscript.

Unacceptable Uses

AI tools must not be used to:

  • Generate fabricated historical evidence, archival sources, citations, references, or research data;

  • Produce misleading interpretations or scholarly claims presented as independently verified research;

  • Replace the author’s critical analysis, historical interpretation, or original scholarly contribution;

  • Create fictitious bibliographic entries, quotations, manuscripts, or archival documents.

Author Responsibility

Authors remain fully responsible for the entire content of their submission, including the accuracy of facts, citations, interpretations, and conclusions, regardless of whether AI tools were used during manuscript preparation. AI systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the integrity, originality, and accountability required of scholarly authorship.

Where AI-assisted tools have been used in a meaningful way during manuscript preparation, authors are encouraged to provide a brief disclosure in an Acknowledgements section describing the nature of the assistance.

Editorial Oversight

The Editorial Board may request clarification regarding suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated references, or inappropriate AI-generated content. Failure to provide satisfactory explanations may result in rejection, withdrawal from review, or post-publication corrective action.

By submitting a manuscript to Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, authors confirm that:

  • the manuscript is their original work;

  • all sources have been properly acknowledged;

  • the submission has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another publication; and

  • any use of AI-assisted technologies complies with this Plagiarism and AI Use Policy and does not compromise the authenticity, reliability, or scholarly integrity of the research.