Referencing

For AI-Integrated and AI-Assisted assessments, the list of all AI prompts and hyperlinks enables to you acknowledge the range of ways in which you have used GenAI in creating your academic assignment. In addition to this, if you include content generated by GenAI in your work, you also need to reference it. Failure to reference correctly may be considered Academic Misconduct.   

It is considered poor academic practice to include any content generated by GenAI tools in your work, unless you are explicitly reflecting on, analysing and evaluating the output of the software. Some assignment briefs might ask you to do this, especially if they include a focus on how to use GenAI in your subject.  

Quoting from outputs: If you do include GenAI content in your work, including simple facts or definitions, you must enclose it in quotation marks and include a reference following your department’s referencing style.

Appending outputs: If your in-text citation is also referring to a larger section of content generated by GenAI, it may be appropriate to include this as an appendix, as you might do with other background information. See your assignment brief for further guidance on use of appendices.

Finding primary sources: GenAI might mention sources of information, and you may wish to refer to these. It does not always provide reliable summaries. You must therefore check the quality of these sources, read them yourself, and paraphrase content and/or select quotations from them to use in your assignment. You should then reference the primary source that you have read.
If it is not clear where the GenAI tool found the content, and you cannot find an alternative source for the information, then it is safer not to use the information.

See further advice on appropriate vs inappropriate usage of GenAI in the Understanding AI Guide.

How to reference GenAI using a specific referencing style

Find your referencing style and follow the links to Cite Them Right (CTR). Once you are on the Cite Them Right homepage for your referencing style, go to the ‘Digital and Internet’ tab. You should see a link for Generative AI. Sometimes this is listed under ‘Software’. If your department is using a referencing style that is not included in Cite them right, you should visit the guidance for your style and ask your module convenor for further advice.