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Generative AI

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The use of generative AI within assignments must comply with RGU guidance. It is your responsibility 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.

Examples

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Template

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Name of AI program. Form of communication [Generative AI]. Date of communication Year Month Day.

Example

Citation

Each item is assigned a number according to its first location within the assignment. The same number should be used again if referring to the same source later within the assignment.

Paraphrasing/Summarising

According to an Open AI ChatGPT response (4)...

Reference List (arranged numercially by the citation order in the text)

4. Open AI ChatGPT. Response to prompt: are children influeneced by social media [Generative AI]. 2023 Jun 17.

Notes

Bibliography

If you have used an item for information but not directly referred to it in your assignment then it should be included in a separate Bibliography after the Reference List. The format of the Bibliography entry is exactly the same as the Reference List with the omission of the citation number. The Bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author surname.

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Name of AI program. Form of communication [Generative AI]. Date of communication Year Month Day.

Example

Citation

Each item is assigned a number according to its first location within the assignment. The same number should be used again if referring to the same source later within the assignment.

Example

Open AI DALL-E was used to create an image which shows... (5).

Reference List (arranged numercially by the citation order in the text)

5. Open AI Dall-E. Response to prompt: create an image based on an infinite pile of books [Generative AI]. 2023 Dec 23.

Notes

Bibliography

If you have used an item for information but not directly referred to it in your assignment then it should be included in a separate Bibliography after the Reference List. The format of the Bibliography entry is exactly the same as the Reference List with the omission of the citation number. The Bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author surname.

Not text based AI (e.g. images, code, videos)

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Template

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Name of AI program. Form of communication [Generative AI]. Date of communication Year Month Day.

Example

Citation

Each item is assigned a number according to its first location within the assignment. The same number should be used again if referring to the same source later within the assignment.

Paraphrasing/Summarising

Open AI DALL-E was used to create an image which shows... (5).

Endnote (arranged numercially by the citation order in the text)

(5) Open AI Dall-E. Response to prompt: create an image based on an infinite pile of books [Generative AI]. 2023 Dec 23.

Notes

Bibliography

If you have used an item for information but not directly referred to it in your assignment then it should be included in a separate Bibliography after the Endnote. The format of the Bibliography entry is exactly the same as the Endnote with the omission of the citation number. The Bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author surname.

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Name of AI (Year of communication) Medium of communication response to Reciever of communication, Day/Month of communication.

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Citation
Paraphrasing / Summarising

(Google Bard, 2023)

A Google Bard (2023) response suggests that ...

Quoting

"..." (Google Bard, 2023)

According to Google Bard (2023) "..."

Reference List

Google Bard (2023) Bard response to Amanda Grayson, 14 June.