GenAI Citation Reminders

• Verify you are permitted to use a GenAI tool or platform for your assignment or paper. 
  • Review your course syllabus for information; and
  • Adhere to any guidelines put in place by your professor.
     
• Confirm that your use of GenAI adheres to the parameters set in place by Ashland University's Guidelines for AI use in Academics (see Workshop Basics).
   
• Critically evaluate GenAI content prior to use;  fact-check all results (e.g., bias and misinformation).
   
• Cite GenAI usage using APA Style, MLA Style, or the citation format required by your professor for the assignment. Different styles have different rules. For example:
  • In some cases, content may be cited as personal communication (non-retrievable data); 
  • AI generated data may also be cited as a machine generated algorithm.

APA Style

Guidelines:  APA Style's How to Cite ChatGPT

APA Style recommends "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" (APA Style Blog, 2024).

Guidelines for in-text citations are "adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10)" (APA Style Blog, 2024).

MLA Style

Guidelines:  MLA Style's How Do I Cite Genrative AI in MLA Style?

MLA Style's "method for citing sources uses a template of core elements—standardized criteria that writers can use to evaluate sources and create works-cited-list entries based on that evaluation" (MLA Style Center, 2023).

General guidelines include citing a "generative AI tool whenever you paraphrase, quote, or incorporate into your own work," "acknowledge all functional uses of the tool," and review any secondary sources it (GenAI) cites (MLA Style Center, 2023).

Chicago Manual of Style

Guidelines:  Chicago Manual of Style Online

Chicago Style recommends that you "credit ChatGPT and similar tools whenever you use the text that they generate in your own work" (Chicago Style Online).

It also notes users "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" (Chicago Style Online).

References

“The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition.” n.d. The Chicago Manual of Style Online. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html.

McAdoo, T. (2024, February 23). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

MLA Style Center. “How Do I Cite Generative AI in MLA Style?” MLA Style Center, 17 Mar. 2023, style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/.