Referencing AI with APA
How to reference text generated by AI
Please note that quoting or paraphrasing from AI-generated text is not acceptable in your university written work unless you are discussing AI (e.g. you are writing about the role of AI and need to reference some examples of AI generated text).
For those of you familiar with referencing, you should reference AI generated text in the same way that you would reference a website.
For guidance on AI and your academic work, please see the VLE.
For help with any referencing questions, please contact library@norwichuni.ac.uk
In-text
In-text (i.e. within your essay) use the Author, Year style, with the Company that own the AI tool named as the author. For example:
(OpenAI, 2024)
In your essay, this would look like:
‘When prompted by the author, ChatGPT responded with a definition of academic integrity’ (OpenAI, 2024)
Bibliography
In your bibliography, references to AI should contain the following elements:
Company. (year of program version used). Name of program used. (Version) [Description of program]. URL.
For example:
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT. (May 12 version) [Large language
model]. https://chat.openai.com/auth/login .
How do I reference an image generated by AI?
If you are using an AI-generated image, use a caption, for example:
‘This image was generated by DALL-E3’.