When citing AI-generated content in your Works Cited, begin with the \u201ctitle\u201d (the first sentence of the first prompt in the relevant conversation) encased in quotation marks. Following that, include the name of the AI tool (e.g., \u201cChatGPT 3.5\u201d or \u201cBing AI\u201d), along with the version date, the name of the organization that created it (e.g., \u201cOpenAI\u201d or \u201cMicrosoft\u201d), the date you acquired the AI response, and the URL of the specific chat session where the response was generated. If you cannot access or share the URL of the chat session, use the generic URL of the tool instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In-text citations should consist of a condensed form of the title\u2014reduced to three words\u2014encased in quotation marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re using content generated by an AI tool that doesn\u2019t allow you to share a link to the full chat for the reader to review, it\u2019s important to include the full generated response in an appendix to your paper.<\/strong> This allows readers to see the context of the AI\u2019s response. The appendix should be labeled clearly and referred to in your in-text citation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is an example of how you might format an appendix containing AI-generated content:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, the goal is to ensure that your reader can easily find and understand the context of the AI\u2019s response within your paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you use an AI tool like ChatGPT or Bing AI to identify sources, and then utilize those sources in your work (as opposed to using the text produced by the AI itself), you only need to cite the sources you actually employed, not the AI tool that assisted in their discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you used an AI tool to revise a few words of your writing or translate words, MLA advises to acknowledge this at a suitable point in your text or in a footnote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Example: MLA ChatGPT citation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> MLA format<\/td> \u201cText of prompt\u201d prompt. ChatGPT 3.5, Day Month version, OpenAI, Day Month Year, chat.openai.com\/chat\/abcdefg<\/td><\/tr> MLA Works Cited entry<\/a><\/td> \u201cTell me about confirmation bias\u201d prompt. ChatGPT 3.5, 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 16 Feb. 2023, chat.openai.com\/chat\/abcdef<\/td><\/tr> MLA in-text citation<\/a><\/td> (\u201cTell me about\u201d; see Appendix A for full transcript)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n