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MIHS Citation Guide

How to Cite ChatGPT

APA

The following information is from post "How to Cite ChatPGT" on the APA Style site. 

  • The author that should be credited is the author of the Algorithm, OpenAI. Do not site ChatGPT as a personal conversation. 
  • Be clear in your writing that you have used ChatGPT as part of your research. 
  • Save all chat transcripts.

Example:

example of in-text and reference citation for ChatGPT

References

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

MLA

The following information is from the post "Ask the MLA: How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?" on the MLA website. 

The MLA recommends:

  • 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
  • save all chat transcripts

MLA in text and works cited examples of ChatGPT

Why cite sources?

You get your research assignment from your professor and they require that you cite your sources. What does this really mean? 

Citing your sources...

  • Adds to your credibility and supports your ideas!
  • Helps your reader find the sources you reference to read for themselves
  • Ensures the accuracy of scientific and scholarly knowledge
  • Protects and acknowledges intellectual property rights

When should you cite? 

  • Direct Quotations: When you use the author’s exact words
  • Paraphrasing: When you summarize someone else’s words or ideas
  • Facts: When you mention something that is not common knowledge
  • Images: When you use pictures, charts, and graphics that someone else created in a presentation 

Reuse this Guide

Creative Commons License CC by NC 4.0 This guide was originally created by Tessa Withorn, Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Maggie Clarke, and Jillian Holt Eslami at CSUDH Library and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. It has been adapted and added to for the Citations Guide at MIHS.