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BUS477: Management Strategy & Policy--Shaikh: Citation Help

Citing AI in APA Format

As AI changes and develops, the answer to this may change or become outdated.  

This is APA’s guidance as of February 23, 2024:

  • Treat the company that created the AI tool as the author
  • Follow this with the year that the AI tool version was created
  • Then the name of the tool
  • The version number or name
  • Text describing what Language Model used
  • Finish with a link to the tool’s main website.  As of now there is no way to create a specific link to AI generated materials.

Company Name. (Year of Creation). AI Tool Name (version number/name) [Language model]. URL

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Sept 25 version) [Large language model]. chat.openai.com/chat

 

In-text, you can include the full text of the prompt in quotation marks and use the company as the author:

OpenAI (2023) generated the followed when prompted to “Describe a rose in 2 paragraphs” 

OR

When prompted to “Describe a rose in 2 paragraphs”...(OpenAI, 2023).

 

The full text of the AI generated content can be placed in an appendix.

If you have a long prompt or multiple prompts, speak with your professor about abbreviating it or placing the full text of the prompts in an appendix.

 

If you need further help, contact a librarian.

Citing AI in Chicago Format

As AI changes and develops, the answer to this may change or become outdated.  

This is Chicago’s guidance as of March 2025:

Chicago does not require a citation for content generated by ChatGPT and other AI tools.  Mentioning it as the source of content within your work is enough; for example: ChatGPT created the following poem.

While this is Chicago’s guidance, check with your professor about whether they require a citation for content created by AI tools. If a citation is required, here is what Chicago recommends:

  • Only create a footnote, not a bibliography citation for this content
  • Treat the AI tool as the author of the content
  • The words, response to, followed by the prompt will be the title unless included in the text
  • The company that created the AI tool should be the publisher
  • Include the date of the content’s creation
  • Finish with a link to the tool’s main website.  As of now there is no way to create a specific link to AI generated materials.  This is considered optional.

Footnote with Prompt Included (meaning it is not in the text of your writing)

  1. Response to "Full text of prompt," AI Tool Name including version number, Company Name, Date of Prompt, URL.
  2. Response to “Describe a rose in 2 paragraphs,” ChatGPT-3.5, OpenAI, September 26, 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.

Footnote without Prompt Included (prompt should appear in text in quotes)

  1. Text generated by AI Tool Name including version number, Company Name, Date of Prompt, URL.
  2. Text generated by ChatGPT-3.5, OpenAI, September 26, 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.

If you need further help, contact a librarian.

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