Before using ChatGPT or other artificial intelligence or generative AI tools, check your syllabus or check with your professor to make sure using AI tools are allowed in your class or on your assignment.
In the professional world, many publishers are requiring human authors to take responsibility for the use of ChatGPT (and similar) and will not permit the AI to have “authorship.” However, you still have to credit chat AI whenever you use the text that it generates in your own work.
Bibliography Example
Don’t cite ChatGPT in a bibliography or reference list unless you provide a publicly available link to an archive of the chat. If you can provide publicly available chat archive link, the bibliographic citation would looke like this:
ChatGPT. Response to the query "Explain the significance of the Belle Époque in French fashion." Accessed June 10, 2025. https://www.archived url.com
Footnote Examples
Prompted included in the body of the article or paper:
¹Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, June 10, 2025, https://chat.openai.com/chat.
If the prompt hasn’t been included in the body for the article or paper, it should be included in the note like this:
¹ChatGPT, response to “Explain how to make pizza dough from common household ingredients,” OpenAI, June 10, 2025.
Author/Date Example
(ChatGPT, March 7, 2023).
Make sure you mention that your image was AI generated in a caption underneath or near your work. Include the name of the AI tool used and the prompt or phrase you used to generate the image.
Example:
Image generated using Adobe Express Generative AI from the prompt "a book checking itself out."
For an image you created yourself, you do not need to include it in the bibliography. If it was a published image, cite it the same way you would any image.