You must confirm whether the use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has been explicitly allowed or is required in your assessment task. Otherwise, using Gen-AI to complete your assessment is a form of plagiarism and may also be a form of contract cheating under University policy.
The following text has been extracted from the APA Style Blog Post and serves as interim guidance.
How to quote or reproduce the text created by generative predictive tools such as ChatGPT in your assessments
If you have used ChatGPT or other AI tools in your research, describe how you used the tool in your Method section or in a comparable section of your paper. For literature reviews or other types of essays or response, you might describe how you used the tool in your introduction. In your text, provide the prompt you used and then any portion of the relevant text that was generated in response. (APA Style Blog, 2023)
You may also put the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix of your paper or in online supplemental materials, so readers have access to the exact text that was generated. It is particularly important to document the exact text created because ChatGPT will generate a unique response in each chat session, even if given the same prompt. If you create appendices or supplemental materials, remember that each should be called out at least once in the body of your APA Style paper. (APA Style Blog, 2023)
How to cite generative predictive text tools, for example ChatGPT
In-text
(OpenAI, 2023) OR OpenAI (2023)
Example:
When prompted with "Is the left brain right brain divide real or a metaphor?" the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that although the two brain hemispheres are somewhat specialized, "the notation that people can be characterized as 'left-brained' or 'right-brained' is considered to be an oversimplification and a popular myth" (OpenAI, 2023).
If you put the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix or in online supplemental materials, the in-text citation would resemble this:
(OpenAI, 2023; see Appendix A for the full transcript).
Reference list
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
This example comes from the APA Style Blog and is adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10).
At present there are no specific APA guidelines on acknowledging generative AI in appendices. In the interim use the following:
Appendix
In an online chat with ChatGPT (April 06, 2023) ...
In answer to the question ..., ChatGPT (April 06, 2023) gave the following response ...
Include a record of each question / prompt, the date and the response