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Citing AI in Your Work
Citing AI is essential to maintaining integrity and transparency in your work. Currently, most styles and publications do not recognize AI as an author and use citations as a mechanism for disclosing AI use.
Guidance for citing AI will vary by citation style and may even vary by instructor and/or publication preference. Guidance may change over time as AI tools, uses, and practices evolve. Always check for updates to a citation style’s AI guidance and instructor and/or publisher preferences.
If you’re unsure about how to format your AI citation, simply use that style’s guidance on citing personal communications or irretrievable materials.
View AI citation guidance for the following citation styles:
Disclosure of AI Use
Another means of disclosing AI use in through the inclusion of a statement, typically at the end of your work, that provides details on how generative AI was used to contribute to the research and/or writing process, while acknowledging the acceptance of author responsibility for the entire work. Many journals and publishers offer general guidelines for disclosure (see statements from Elsevier and Emerald, as examples), but there are also emerging taxonomies that can be used as a way to provide consistent and thorough documentation. One excellent example of this type of structure is the Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy (or GAIDeT - see author interview for additional context). While this framework is still new and developing, it provides a standardized basis for documenting which research tasks were deleted to GAI. To facilitate the generation of disclosures, the creators of GAIDeT have developed a free and easy to use tool.