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APA Formatting and Style

This guide provide helpful resources to that will assist you with APA citations and formatting.

Generative AI Citation

APA has guidance notes in blog format for citing AI usage.

•"Defer to instructor guidelines" when writing a student paper
•"describe how you used the tool in your Method section"
• put the full text of the chat in an Appendix.

Example 1 for text:

Prompt:

"Explain cryptocurrency as if I were a 14 year old student".

APA Citation:

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 23 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

Example 2 for image:

Prompt:

“market scene in 17th century India in Baroque style”

APA Citation:

OpenAI. (2023). DALL-E (version 2) [Text-to-image-model]. https://openai.com/dall-e-2

See:

https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt