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Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)

Citing Gen AI

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APA Style: How to cite ChatGPT

 

Attribution format

Credit the generative AI tool as an author. "Because "the results of a ChatGPT “chat” are not retrievable by other readers, and although non-retrievable data or quotations in APA Style papers are usually cited as personal communications, with ChatGPT-generated text there is no person communicating. Quoting ChatGPT’s text from a chat session is therefore more like sharing an algorithm’s output; thus, credit the author of the algorithm with a reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation."

 

Guidelines

  • Research methods: "Describe how you used the tool in your Method section."
  • Literature reviews or essays: "Describe how you used the tool in your introduction. In your text, provide the prompt you used and then any portion of the relevant text that was generated in response."
  • Reference lists: "Credit the author of the algorithm with a reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation."
 

Examples

  • In-text: "When prompted with “Is the left brain right brain divide real or a metaphor?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that although the two brain hemispheres are somewhat specialized, “the notation that people can be characterized as ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’ is considered to be an oversimplification and a popular myth” (OpenAI, 2023)."
  • List entry: "OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat"

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The Chicago Manual of Style: FAQ

 

Attribution format

Credit the generative AI tool as an author. "ChatGPT stands in as “author” of the content, and OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is the publisher or sponsor, followed by the date the text was generated. After that, the URL tells us where the ChatGPT tool may be found, but because readers can’t necessarily get to the cited content (see below), that URL isn’t an essential element of the citation."

 

Guidelines

"To sum things up, you must credit ChatGPT when you reproduce its words within your own work, but unless you include a publicly available URL, that information should be put in the text or in a note—not in a bibliography or reference list. If you’ve edited the AI-generated text, you should say so in the text or at the end of the note (e.g., “edited for style and content”). But you don’t need to say, for example, that you’ve applied smart quotes or adjusted the font...."

 

Examples

  • List entry: 1. Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, March 7, 2023, https://chat.openai.com/chat.
  • If the prompt hasn’t been included in the text, it can be included in the note: "1. ChatGPT, response to “Explain how to make pizza dough from common household ingredients,” OpenAI, March 7, 2023."

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MLA Style Center: How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?

 

Attribution format

Do not credit the generative AI tool as an author.

 

Guidelines

"Cite a generative AI tool whenever you paraphrase, quote, or incorporate into your own work any content (whether text, image, data, or other) that was created by it. Acknowledge all functional uses of the tool (like editing your prose or translating words) in a note, your text, or another suitable location, take care to vet the secondary sources it cites."

 

Examples

  • In-text: "While the green light in The Great Gatsby might be said to chiefly symbolize four main things: optimism, the unattainability of the American dream, greed, and covetousness (“Describe the symbolism”), arguably the most important—the one that ties all four themes together—is greed."
  • List entry: “'Describe the symbolism of the green light in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald' prompt. ChatGPT, 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat."