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Citation Style: Chicago 18th edition

Citing information generated by AI

In-text citation - Paraphrase:

The following recipe for pizza dough was generated by ChatGPT.

If you’re using Author / Date  instead of Notes, any information not in the text would be placed in a parenthetical text reference:

(ChatGPT, March 7, 2023)

Don’t cite ChatGPT in a bibliography or reference list unless you provide a publicly available link.

Footnote or Endnote:

1. Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, March 7, 2023, https://chat.openai.com/chat.

If the prompt hasn’t been included in the text, it can be included in the note:

1. ChatGPT, response to “Explain how to make pizza dough from common household ingredients,” OpenAI, March 7, 2023.