APA Style: Writing & Citation

• Use AI as a tool to help you create a focus for your research, to create an outline, to organize information, to generate keyword/search term lists to use in database searches, and to proof for grammatical/spelling errors in your paper. Do not use AI as a reliable source of information to back up your ideas unless you vet that information through research.
• For transparency and academic integrity, if you choose to use AI to find and use information in your paper, be sure that you acknowledge your use of it. Include a statement indicating that AI has been used; specify which tool(s) was used; describe how the information was generated (a description, an image, a text revision); include the prompt(s) used; and explain how the output from the prompt(s) was used in your paper/project.

APA Reference Example:

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

• Parenthetical citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
• Narrative citation: OpenAI (2023)

Example Acknowledgement statement:

I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) and link] to [specific use of generative artificial intelligence]. The prompts used include [list of prompts]. The output from these prompts was used to [explain use].