If you use text or an image generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, you need to include an in-text citation and a corresponding entry in the Works Cited list. The format for the Works Cited list entry is:
Title of Source. Title of Container, version, Publisher, Date, Location.
There are six elements of the citation:
- Title of Source: a description of what was generated by the AI tool, which may include information about the prompt if you didn't explain it in your text.
- Title of Container: the name of the tool (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc.), with the version in parentheses
- Version: the version as it's listed on the website of the tool or company, which may be a date (e.g., March 14 version) or a version number (e.g., version 2.3)
- Publisher: the company that created the tool
- Date: the date the content was generated
- Location: the URL (web address) of the tool
Here's an example:
“Describe the symbolism of the green light in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald” prompt. ChatGPT, 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.
Not sure about the name of the company?
Do a quick search for the name of the tool plus "Wikipedia" (e.g.: DALL-E Wikipedia). The first line of the Wikipedia entry will likely include the company name. For example, here's the first line of the DALL-E article on Wikipedia:
DALL-E (stylized as DALL·E), DALL-E 2, and DALL-E 3 are text-to-image models developed by OpenAI using deep learning methodologies to generate digital images from natural language descriptions, called "prompts".
OpenAI is the name of the company that created that tool.
