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Most academic work draws upon the works of others; therefore, citing your sources is an important part of the scholarly writing process.

Citations include the key elements that allow your sources to be identified and located. These elements vary depending upon the type of resource.

There are several reasons to cite your sources:

• Give proper credit to the ideas, words, and works of others you use in your research
• Allow readers to find your sources - so they can determine if they are reliable, better evaluate your argument, and locate additional information
• Avoid plagiarism (see Georgia State University Academic Honesty Policy.)

Citation managers, or bibliographic management software, can save you hours by keeping track of your sources and formatting your bibliographies.

EndNote and EndNote Web are available at no cost to GSU students, faculty and staff. Zotero is available as a free Firefox plugin for anyone to download.

What are AI Tools? 

There are lots of AI Tools that can be used to increase productivity. Some AI Tools that you might have heard about are ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Grammarly, but there are many, many more. There has been a lot of recent discussion around the use of AI Tools in the academic environment, how students should or shouldn't use them, and how to cite them properly in order to avoid plagiarism and other concerns. 

When do you need to cite an AI Tool?

Whenever you use the outputs of AI tools in your work you must cite them. Always cite if you use a direct quote or paraphrase from ChatGPT or another AI Tool. You must also cite when you use an AI tool for tasks like editing, translating, idea generation, and data processing. 

Citation concerns with AI Tools

1. You should always check the source material cited by AI Tools; this is because they can create fake citations and/or could be inaccurate
2. Be aware that there are privacy concerns when you use AI Tools and be careful what information you share to avoid unnecessary risks
3. Take notes about how you use AI Tools included in case you need to include those details in your citations. Remember, there are two reasons to cite your sources 1) to give credit to the author or creator and 2) to help others find the sources that you used

Source: 

McGuigan, N. (n.d.). LibGuides: Generative Artificial Intelligence : Citation and Attribution. Retrieved August 9, 2024, from https://libguides.brown.edu/c.php?g=1338928&p=9868287

How do I cite an AI Tool?

When you ask an AI Tool like ChatGPT a question and it answers, that is known as an "output". Outputs from AI Tools that are used for your assignments needs to be cited in your References page and through in-text citations within your assignments. APA adapts the in-text citations and references for AI Tools from the reference template for software in section 10.10 of the APA Publication Manual. To cite these, you will need to include the author (or creator), the date, the title (or AI Tool) with a descriptor in brackets to tell the reader what kind it is, and the source (which is the URL for the AI Tool). 

Format:

Author. (Date). Name of tool (Version of tool) [Large language model]. URL

Notes: The author or creator is the company or organization that created the AI Tool. For example, the company that created ChatGPT is OpenAI so that would be its creator. ChatGPT is a what is known as a "Large language model", so that information should also be included in brackets to tell the reader what it is. In some cases, you may also want to include the full text of long responses (including the prompt) from ChatGPT or the AI Tool that you used in an appendix so that your readers have access to the exact text that was generated. 

Example:

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

In-text citations:

You must also include in-text citations. APA In-Text citations should include the author or creator and the year of publication.

Example:

(OpenAI, 2023)

Sources: 

How to cite ChatGPT. (n.d.). Https://Apastyle.Apa.Org. Retrieved August 9, 2024, from https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

McGuigan, N. (n.d.). LibGuides: Generative Artificial Intelligence : Citation and Attribution. Retrieved August 9, 2024, from https://libguides.brown.edu/c.php?g=1338928&p=9868287

Citation Managers like EndNote and Zotero can help you manage your sources easily by allowing you to download citations from library databases and websites. They can even help you export citations into your paper to create a bibliography. And, you can also use them to upload PDFs and images to your sources and to add notes. You can compare the features of some different citation manager programs here.

Zotero is a free Firefox plugin that easily saves citations from GIL and most library databases, as well as sites like Amazon and the New York Times online.

EndNote is a free download for GSU students, faculty and staff.  It's a desktop application that runs on Windows or MacOS.

Note: Both Zotero and Endnote have Word plugins that automatically create bibliographies in the style of your choice.