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MLA Style Citations

Basic guide to create citations using MLA style.

Citation Format for AI Tools

These are the core elements  required in an MLA citation, with descriptions of how they apply to AI specifically:

  • Author: blank for AI
  • Title of source: the prompt used to generate the text or a description if the prompt itself is too long
  • Title of container: the name of the AI tool, such as ChatGPT
  • Version: the tool’s version (some tools list their version as a date)
  • Publisher: the company that created the AI
  • Date: the date you accessed the AI, in day-month-year format
  • Location: the URL of the tool

Full citation: "Example of an MLA citation” prompt. ChatGPT, GPT-4, OpenAI, 30 Jun. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.

In parenthetical citations use the description of the prompt as in the “Title of source” section, set in quotes with no other punctuation.

(“Example of an MLA citation”)

Sources:

Grammarly

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