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There are a few ways to record and reference your use of AI.
Use this page to find some top tips on how to keep track of your AI use and share the results with others, as well as our suggested format for referencing it.
You will need to follow your validating institution's policy on using and citing AI tools. Unfortunately policies vary between universities and even between departments, so you will need to check the advice for your particular course. However, we have gather some useful links to get you started. Please choose your validating institution from the list below:
Important: You must always check with your tutor before using AI in an assignment. If you try to pass off AI-generated content as your own work you will be committing academic misconduct, which is very serious. You could lose your marks from that assignment, or even be disqualified from your course.
If you are allowed to use AI in your coursework you must make sure it is clearly cited within the text and in a reference list at the end. If you do not reference your use of AI you could be committing plagiarism. The basic information you should try to include is:
You may also need to save a copy or screenshot of your prompts and responses in case your tutor asks you about it later. Check with your tutor whether you need to include this evidence as an appendix at the end of your assignment.
You should always follow advice from your tutor on how to reference AI; however, if you have not been given any specific instructions, you can follow our suggestion based on guidance from Cite Them Right. This is based on the format for referencing personal conversations.
Some exam board and universities have their own specific format for referencing AI. Only use our suggested format if you have checked with your tutor that it is the correct format for your course
When you quote some AI-generated text in your assignment you should include the name of the AI tool and the year the response was generated in round brackets.
Example:
Using a variety of prompts from the author, ChatGPT responded that the perfect recipe for a birthday cake ‘combines aesthetics, flavor and texture’ (OpenAI ChatGPT, 2024). A copy of this response is included in Appendix 1.
In the reference list or bibliography at the end of your assignment, you should include certain information in the following order:
Example:
OpenAI ChatGPT (2024) ChatGPT response to Hannah Smith, 12 January.
In some cases, your tutor or exam board might ask you to save copies of any prompts and results you have got from AI. Unfortunately, some tools don't let you look back on your prompt history.
Another common issue with generative AI is that you often can't create the same result twice, even if you put in the exact same prompt as before. This is a problem for more complicated prompts that you might have spent a lot of time working on.
Here are some top tips for keeping track:
