Please ensure your instructor will accept information generated by ChatGPT in your assignment. Your instructor may ask you to provide a description in the text of how you obtained the information versus relying on the citation to explain the origins of the text.
Per How to Cite ChatGPT (McAdoo, 2023) in the APA Style Blog, cite text that was generated by ChatGPT as if you're "sharing an algorithm's output; thus credit the author of the algorithm with a reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation" (McAdoo, 2023, para. 4). In the first example in the blog post, the following is provided as a sample in-text citation and reference to information obtained via ChatGPT:
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
- In-text citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
For a thorough explanation of many aspects of using ChatGPT in works, including challenges such as the tool's ability to make up sources, please visit the post at How to Cite ChatGPT in the APA Style Blog.
Two other suggestions:
- ChatGPT doesn't necessarily provide the same information in response to identical prompts, so we suggest that authors keep a record of the information obtained from ChatGPT, such as a screenshot, in case instructors want to see the original query and response.
- If you are citing information generated by ChatGPT that was published elsewhere (e.g., newspaper article, journal article), please follow the APA Style rules to cite the resource as a secondary source.
Reference
McAdoo, T. (2023, April 7). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style Blog. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt
