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The use of ChatGPT or other AI tools in assignments should be discussed with your instructor. As a general rule, if you are incorporating any information from an AI tool into your research assignments, you must cite the AI tool or the information that the tool is directing you to.
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Official APA, MLA, and Chicago style guidance on how to cite ChatGPT:
The general form for CMS Author-Date in-text citation is (Author Last Name Year of Publication, Page Number). Here are some examples of what they would look like:
For one author:
(Brown 2013, 167)
For two or three authors:
(Mitchell and Evans 2017, 31)
For four or more authors:
(Doe et al. 2016, 85)
Authors with the same last name, use first initials:
(M. Mitchell 2016)
(A. Mitchell 2016)
Author with multiple works in the same year:
(Davis 2015a)
(Davis 2015b)
To cite specific pages (such as when you are quoting or paraphrasing a specific part):
(Johnson 2014, 34-45)
To cite more than one source:
(Jones 2013; Williams 2015)
| Interview |
Format: Interviewee Last Name, Interviewee First Name. Publication Year. "Title of Interview." Interview by Interviewer First Name Last Name. Publication Title, Date of Publication. Bibliography Entry: Stamper, Kory. 2017. "From 'F-Bomb' to 'Photobomb,' How the Dictionary Keeps up with English." Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, April 19, 2017. Audio, 35:25. http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524618639/from-f-bomb-to- In-Text Citation: (Stamper 2017) |
| Thesis or Dissertation |
Format: Last Name, First Name. Publication Year. "Title of Thesis/Dissertation." PhD diss., University of Chicago. Bibliography Entry: Rutz, Cynthia Lillian. 2013. "King Lear and Its Folktale Analogues." PhD diss., University of Chicago. In-Text Citation: (Rutz 2013, 99-100) |
| Website |
Format: Author. Publication Date. "Title of Webpage." Website Name. Last modified Date. URL. Bibliography Entry: Google. 2017. "Privacy Policy." Privacy & Terms. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. In-Text Citation: (Google 2017) |
| Social Media Content |
Format: Author. Publication Year. "160 Characters of the Post." Social Media Outlet, Date. URL. Bibliography Entry: Chicago Manual of Style. 2015. "Is the world ready for singular they? We thought so back in 1993." Facebook, April 17, 2015. https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoManual/posts/10152906193679151. In-Text Citation: (Chicago Manual of Style 2015) |