RGU Vancouver Referencing
Generative AI
The use of generative AI within assignments must comply with RGU guidance. It is your responsiblity to check your assignment brief and ensure that the use of AI tools is permitted within an assignment
Any use of AI tools, including idea and content generation or helping you to plan or develop an assignment, must be acknowledged as a source. Instructions are given below on how to reference the legitimate use of AI within assignments but given how fast the AI landscape is changing these instructions may be subject to change in the coming months.
This guidance has been adapted from the Personal Communication template, which seems to be accepted practice in many UK universities in the absence of any official guidance from the National Library of Medicine. The NLM is responsible for updating the Vancouver style and may issue different guidance in future.
Endnote (arranged numerically by the citation number in the text)
(1) Open AI ChatGPT. Response to prompt: are children influenced by social media [Generative AI]. 2023 June 17.
Bibliography (arranged alphabetically by author)
Open AI ChatGPT. Response to prompt: are children influenced by social media [Generative AI]. 2023 June 17.
Other Examples and Questions
The AI is not text based (e.g. images, code, videos)
We advise that you follow the template above for any content that you have generated from an AI tool. Remember to include details of the prompt that you used.
Generative AI images available from online image repositories (e.g. Shutterstock, Flickr etc.)
If you did not request the image to be generated but located it on an online AI repository such as ShutterstockAI then we recomend that you follow the guidance given in the template for Graphs, Images Illustrations and Photos. These templates can be found in the A-Z menu.