Anytime your work has been produced or aided by someone or something other than yourself, you need to provide credit with a citation. This also applies to artificial intelligence tools because they use other people’s work to generate their responses.
Attribution to non-human entities is an evolving situation. Pay attention to any changes!
Reminder: Not every professor allows the use of AI in assignments, and using it at all in those situations may be academic misconduct or dishonesty.
There is no rule in McGill (yet) for citing to Generative AI.
The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL) is the only Canadian legal citation style to provide a format for AI-generated content. COAL suggests the following format for publicly available GenAI tools:
Name of AI | , version if available | . Prompt. | (Translation of prompt if applicable). | (Developer | : host if different than developer | , date or date range of response). | URL if conversation publicly saved | (Description of any additional prompts.)
Example:
ChatGPT, 3.5. Response to “why do citations of united nations documents include meeting information as well as a document number? It seems redundant.” (OpenAI, 12 January 2024). https://chat.openai.com/share/a41ec2d3-0362-4282-b15b-71654fb5302b (Further prompts to request sources of information provided in response.)