Guidelines for citing Generative AI tools are given in the article How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? from the official style website.
• Cite a generative AI tool whenever you paraphrase, quote, or incorporate into your own work any content (whether text, image, data, or anything else) that is created by the generative AI tool.
• Acknowledge all uses of the tool, including editing your writing, gathering information for your work, and translating words, in a note or in your text, and in the Works Cited list.
• Generative AI tools cannot accurately cite their own sources. Any references they provide may be false or non-existent – always check the original source of any references that are generated.
• Generative AI tools are not sources of knowledge creation, i.e. they are not authors. This means you will be citing the use of a tool.
• Content from generative AI is a non-recoverable source as it can't be retrieved or linked. To be able to retrieve AI generated text, so that the conversation is saved, is shareable, or otherwise retrievable, use https://aiarchives.org/. If you do this, provide the URL that leads to the text instead of the general URL of the AI tool.
Standard format for citation
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"Description of prompt (unless included in-text) or what was generated by the AI tool." Title of AI Tool, Version, Company Making AI Tool, Date content was generated as DD Mon. YYYY, URL of the AI Tool. |
"Describe the significance of nature in Robert Frost’s poetry" prompt. Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft, 10 May. 2024, copilot.microsoft.com/.
"In 200 words, summarise the significance of nature in Robert Frost’s poetry" follow-up prompt to list sources. Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft, 10 May. 2024, copilot.microsoft.com/.
For ease of use, this guide divides Works Cited list entries into different formats.
Select the format you require from the Works Cited List Entries menu or select from the links below: