Referencing Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI)

If you use a generative artificial intelligence tool such as ChatGPT at any stage of your work on an assessment, you must declare it, even if you do not use it as a source.  

If you use it as a source, you need to footnote it as well. 

Referencing the Use of Al Technologies 

All direct quotes, summaries, and paraphrases of text Al sources must be referenced in a footnote.  

SBL Referencing: There is no SBL referencing guidelines for genAI content as of January 2026. Instead, use the following:

Footnotes:     

^(number) Originator of the communication, medium, Day, Month, Year.  

¹ Open Al's ChatGPT Al language model, response to question from the author, 17 February 2023. 

Note: Use this full form of the footnote each time you need a footnote. As yet, there is no abbreviated form for second and subsequent footnotes. 

Bibliography:  

An informal and ephemeral source: Do not reference, but you must declare its use in the declaration on your Assignment Cover Sheet.

(Adapted from Summary of Interim Al Technologies Referencing - February 2023
by Tabor Institute of Higher Education)