If you are permitting the use of AI in your classroom, it is likely that you will be requiring your students to either disclose that they used AI, or to cite the chatbot within their assignments. This page has been created to identify how to cite AI chatbots within three of the major citation styles, APA, Chicago, and MLA.
As is critical in adhering to academic integrity, it is really important to cite sources, as it identifies that an idea is not your own, but also because citing allows for scholars to contribute to the scholarly conversation on a topic. Citation practices can help to provide direct links to which chatbot the information was gathered from, or using the new linking features, you as a professor can see what information AI provided to your students, and in turn what they used in their assignment.
The major citation guides have produced articles on how to cite AI, including APA Style, Chicago Manual Style, and MLA Style. See below links for examples of how to cite AI within these three major citation styles.
If you have further questions about citing AI, please contact your Milne Librarians. A note, that when asked citation questions by students, we refer to citation guides and resources for suggestions, but do not provide students with distinct answers to citation questions.
There has recently been a new feature integrated into major AI chatbots, which allows for users to create a public link to their chat query. This is an exciting development for research, because if a researcher is utilizing AI, and wants to demonstrate how the chatbot is answering a question, they can now link to that query, rather than capturing the query to include as an image in their work.
Additionally, this new feature allows for professors to not only ask that students disclose their use of AI in an assignment, but also that they can include a link to the exact chat transcript for where the information was provided by the chatbot. This new feature allows for direct citation to a query, allowing for exciting new abilities for students to "show their work" with prompt literacy and use of chatbots for information purposes.