Ethical Use of AI in Academics (for faculty): Citing ChatGPT in APA

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.

Citations for AI are currently modeled from their template for citing software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10).

Format:

1. Author
2. (Year)
3. Title
4. (Version)
5. [Descriptor]
6. Source

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