Leslie J. Savage Library: Citing AI

BEFORE USING CHATGPT OR ANOTHER GENERATIVE AI TOOL… consult your course syllabus and your instructor to ensure that use of AI tools is allowed in your course. Unauthorized use of AI tools on course assignments could be considered a violation of academic integrity and have serious consequences for your grade.

If use of AI tools is permitted in your course, you are still required to correctly cite AI-generated text.

If your citation style has not published official guidance on how to correctly cite AI...

Contact your instructor to ask how they would prefer AI to be cited.

APA Style’s recent publications recommend citing ChatGPT and other large language models similar to other software.

Reference

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

Parenthetical citation

(OpenAI, 2023)

Narrative citation

OpenAI (2023)

From “How to cite ChatGPT” by Timothy McAdoo

Chicago Style does not recommend citing ChatGPT in a bibliography or reference list. Instead, Chicago provides guidelines on citing ChatGPT in notes (for Notes and Bibliography Style) and parenthetical citations (for Author-Date Style).

Notes and Bibliography Style

Note:

1. Text generated by ChatGPT, March 7, 2023, OpenAI, https://chat.openai.com/chat.

Author: Text generated by [Name of the tool]

Date: Date the text was generated

Publisher: Organization that develops and provides the tool

URL: Location where the reader can find the tool used

Author-Date Style

Parenthetical Citation:

(ChatGPT, March 7, 2023)

From “Citation, Documentation of Sources FAQ” by The Chicago Manual of Style Online.

Works Cited 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.

Author: MLA does not recommend treating the AI tool as an author. Omit this element from the citation.

Title of Source: Describe briefly and accurately how text was generated, for example, what prompt was entered into the tool.

Title of Container: Name the AI tool.

Version: Name the version of the AI tool as specifically as possible. For example, if the tool assigns a specific date to the version, the Version element shows this version date.

Publisher: Organization that develops and provides the tool.

Date: Date the content was generated.

Location: URL where the reader can find the tool used.

In-Text Citation

("Describe the symbolism")

In the absence of an author, include the first few words of the title of the source in quotation marks within the parentheses. 

From “How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?” by Ask the MLA