These recommendations are current as at July 2024. We may update or supplement these guidelines over time as tools evolve and practice recommendations for the use of Gen-AI develop.
Statement of acknowledgement of Gen-AI use
You must confirm whether the use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has been explicitly allowed or required in your assessment task and how you may use it. Using Gen-AI to complete your assessment without explicit authorisation is a breach of academic integrity under University policy.
When using Gen-AI in assessments, a statement of acknowledgement is required. Your course coordinator will provide guidance on how to acknowledge your use of Gen-AI in your assessment.
In your acknowledgement you should provide:
A written statement acknowledging the use of Gen-AI
Specify what Gen-AI tools and technology were used
Include a list of prompts used
Explain how the outputs were used in your work
For example:
I acknowledge the use of [insert name of AI tool] to [insert description of usage]. The prompts used were [insert list of prompts]. The outputs generated from these prompts were used to XXX.
In addition to your statement of acknowledgment you should also adhere to the relevant referencing guidelines for advice on how to cite the use of Gen-AI in your in-text references and bibliography.
How to cite generative predictive text tools
How to cite ChatGPT (APA Style Blog Post)
The following text has been extracted from the APA Style Blog and serves as interim guidance.
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.
You may also put the full text of the 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 you give 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, 2024)
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).
Appendix
At present there are no specific APA guidelines on acknowledging generative AI in appendices. In the interim use the following:
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.