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Chicago A: 18th edition

Guide to the 18th ed. of Chicago A (Notes and Bibliography)

Use of AI

You should seek clarification from the Lecturer-in-Charge (LIC) of your unit to see if it is permissible to use AI in your assessments. 

According to the University's Student Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy (8.1.c) unauthorised or undisclosed use of artificial intelligence is a form of academic misconduct.

If you quote or paraphrase content produced by AI tools (for example ChatGPT and Claude AI) you must acknowledge it properly, either in the text or in a note. CMOS 14.112 outlines how to cite AI-Generated content.  

AI generated text

Like personal communications and social media posts, chatbot conversations are not usually included in a bibliography. 

In the text, make it clear how the AI tool has been used. Any specific content generated by an AI tool that has been paraphrased or quoted should be cited in text or in a note.

In-text

… When prompted with "Name one advantage of using solar heating?" the response from the GenAI tool Gemini 1.5 Flash was that it "reduces the consumption of fossil fuels." 3

… ChatGPT wrote that "dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows more about a situation than the characters." 2

First Footnote

Example when GenAI prompt has already been included in the text:

2 Text generated by Gemini 1.5 Flash, Google December 13, 2024, https://g.co/gemini/share/5c61e3836afc.

Example when GenAI prompt is included in the footnote instead:

4  Response to "Why is dramatic irony effective," ChatGPT-3.5, Open AI, December 12, 2024, https://chatgpt.com/share/675a6cc6-cc60-8009-854a-bb484d7bab28.

5 Response to “Explain how to make pizza dough from common household ingredients,” ChatGPT-3.5, Open AI, December 13, 2024, edited for style and accuracy, https://chatgpt.com/share/675b8a7b-638c-8009-b5a0-ccc9c938a97f.

Subsequent Footnotes

7 Gemini 1.5 Flash, response on solar heating. 

Notes

  • Authorship:  Include the version number of the tool when citing the author (e.g. ChatGPT-3.5 or Claude 3 Haiku) as well as the publisher (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic).
  • Date: Use the exact date the chat was generated.
  • URL: Where possible, include a publically archived link to the image.
  • Editing Acknowledgement: If the AI-generated content has been edited, note this in the text or footnote. 
  • For further examples of citing AI generated content, see CMOS 14.112.

AI generated images

First Footnote

3  Imagen 3, "A Festive Image of a Library at Christmas Time," image generated by Gemini 1.5 Flash, Google, December 13, 2024, https://g.co/gemini/share/a9133931e018.

Subsequent Footnotes

7 Imagen 3, "A Festive Image". 

Notes

  • Authorship:  Include the version number of the tool used to create the image (e.g. Gemini 1.5 Flash) as well as the publisher (e.g. Google).
  • Date: Use the exact date the image was generated.
  • URL: Where possible, include a publically archived link to the image.
  • Editing Acknowledgement: If the AI-generated content has been edited, note this in the text or footnote.