The editors of the Chicago Manual of Style have posted a Q&A about how to cite content generated by AI. Their most recent guidance says that “you must credit ChatGPT when you reproduce its words within your own work, but unless you include a publicly available URL, that information should be put in the text or in a note — not in a bibliography or reference list. Other AI-generated text can be cited similarly.”
See examples below.
Footnote template:
1. Text generated by [Tool Used], Tool Publisher, date of generation, URL.
Example:
1. Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, March 7, 2023, https://chat.openai.com/chat.
If the prompt that you entered into ChatGPT wasn’t included in the body of your paper, it can be included in a note.
Example:
1. ChatGPT, response to “Describe the parts of the human brain and their functions,” OpenAI, March 7, 2023.