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Critical Generative AI Literacy

Citation Elements

If using generative AI use is permitted, be prepared to acknowledge its use by keeping track of the following elements:

  • Tool, version, and url 
  • Prompt
  • Date accessed

Citation Guidelines

APA style recommends citing the AI tool company as the author and AI tool as the title, with in-text citations and references adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10). 

MLA style recommends using the Title of Container element to specify the AI tool and the Publisher element to specify the company that made the tool.

Chicago style recommends citing the AI tool as author, with the following example: "ChatGPT is the author of the content, and the date is the date the text was generated. OpenAI (the organization that developed ChatGPT) is then listed as the publisher or sponsor of the content."