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Learn about frequently-used citation styles and citation tools.

Citing Generative AI Tools and Their Use

It is extremely important to keep track of the AI tools that you use and what you use them for. This is because publishing-related organizations have requirements for how you must cite these tools and their uses.
1. This page has tabs with statements from some organizations about their policies on generative AI.
2. This guide's pages about the "Big Three" styles (APA, MLA, and Chicago) each include a tab about how to cite any use of, and tools used for, generative AI.

3. All of the styles listed on under More Styles also include information about this. Those styles are:
 
  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • ACS (American Chemical Society)
  • AMA (American Medical Association)
  • ASA (American Sociologuical Association)
  • ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
  • CSE (Council of Science Editors)
  • ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, also known as "Vancouver style")
  • IEEE (formerly, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Banner at the top of the ASTM site

  • "Artificial Intelligence Policy: ASTM International prohibits the entry of ASTM standards and related ASTM intellectual property (“ASTM IP”) into any form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT.
    ---Additionally, creating ----derivatives of ASTM IP using AI is also prohibited without express written permission from ASTM’s President.
    ---In the case of such use, ASTM will suspend a licensee’s access to ASTM IP, and further legal action will be considered.

Banner at the top of ASTM Compass, their database of standards:

  • "Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) on ASTM standards and related intellectual property is prohibited. Violations will result in suspension of access."

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) is "committed to educating and supporting editors, publishers, universities, research institutes, and all those involved in publication ethics. COPE aims to move the culture of publishing towards one where ethical practices become a normal part of the culture itself."

Here is their position statement [bold face added] :

  • "The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. COPE joins organisations, such as WAME [World Association of Medical Editors; May 2023] and the JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] Network (January 2023) among others, to state that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper.
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Hastings Center Report

(In the abstract): "In the interests of fostering a wider conversation about how generative AI may be used, we have developed a preliminary set of recommendations for its use in scholarly publishing."