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Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: AI: Citing AI

How to Cite ChatGPT and Other AI Responses

General guidance:  Check with your instructor before using AI in any of your assignments.  If the use of AI is permitted, check with your instructor on how you should disclose the use of AI.  For example, your instructor may want to know the specific tool you use, the prompts you used, etc. 

MLA - How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?

APA  -  How to cite ChatGPT   

Chicago Manual of Style -  FAQ  Citation, Documentation of Sources (ChatGPT)

University of Victoria Libraries. Referencing AI Generated Images

Citing source references in APA style, including ChatGPT

Elements of source references in APA style

a p a references list and book

Source citations in APA style are called references. References contain the following four elements:

  • Author. This can be a person, group of people, or an organization. Use & for multiple authors. If there is no author, start the entry with the title. Reference entries should be listed in alphabetical order by the first author's last name (or the title if no author) with hanging indentations.
  • Date. Refers to the date of publication and is most commonly the year or an exact date, such as year, month, and day. Use (n.d.) for no date.
  • Title. This can be either a work that stands alone, such as a book, or part of a greater whole, such as a journal article, and should always be in sentence case.
  • Source. Indicates where readers can retrieve the cited work and could be a publisher or the title of a greater whole, such as a journal article and the journal name. 
Can't find some of this information for your source? Use the the APA Style website's guide to adapting Missing reference information.

Citing sources in APA style

CIting AI tools such as ChatGPT in APA style

Suggestion for Disclosure of Use of AI

Suggestion for disclosure of use of AI:

In producing this text [or image or programming code, etc.]] X [= the name of the AI-assisted tool] was used.  I controlled the AI with the following prompts: 1.______________  2. __________

From  Heinrich Niemann. Department of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.  Guide available via  Dan Fitzpatrick's The AI Educator. 

Who's the Author?