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Note: Different units at Deakin use different referencing styles. Check your unit assessment information to find which style you are required to use.
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Artificial intelligence
When using generative artificial intelligence, you need to ensure that your final submitted assessment is your own work, creation, and analysis.
Where you have used generative AI in developing your assessment (for example, in the development of ideas, problem solving, data analysis, significant writing feedback) you should acknowledge your use of it.
It is also essential that you provide details about where and how you have used it.
- First, read assessment instructions in your unit site or check with your Unit Chair whether you are allowed to use generative AI and how you are allowed to use it.
- Understand the limitations and the risks.
- Critically evaluate any output.
- Document how you used the tool and acknowledge this in your final submission.
Your acknowledgement should include:
- the name of the generative AI tool (you can also include the version, if known)
- the month and year you accessed it
- (where relevant) details of your prompts, the output, and precisely where in your assessment you have used generative AI. Discuss unit requirements with your Unit Chair.
This can go in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section and further details can be provided in an Appendix.
Examples of acknowledging the use of generative AI
This paper was edited with the assistance of Name of generative AI tool (accessed Month Year). I have critically assessed and validated any generated feedback. The final version of the paper is my own creation.
I acknowledge the use of Name of generative AI tool (accessed Month Year) and Name of generative AI tool (accessed Month Year) in developing some of my ideas and writing for this assessment. All AI-generated output was critically reviewed. Examples of prompts, outputs and my responses are provided in Appendix B. The final content, conclusions and assertions in this paper are my own.
This assessment was completed with the assistance of Name of generative AI tool (accessed Month Year). With the permission of my Unit Chair, I have used these tools to develop the fictional case studies that provide the background for Section 2 of the assessment. See Appendix A for further details. All other writing and analysis in this assessment is my own.
Examples adapted from: Bozkurt, A. (2024). GenAI et al.: Cocreation, authorship, ownership, academic ethics and integrity in a time of generative AI. Open Praxis, 16(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.55982/ openpraxis.16.1.654
Can I cite generative AI?
In most cases, citing AI-generated content as a primary source of information for an assessment is not acceptable. You will need to discuss unit rules and requirements with your Unit Chair.
All sources of information for assessment need to be evaluated for credibility. Cite recommended journal articles, books, websites and other reliable and credible sources.
If you have concluded that generative AI is an appropriate source to cite for your task, then it needs to be cited appropriately.
In all cases, you must acknowledge the use of generative AI as outlined above. In addition, you can cite as follows.
When acknowledging or citing the use of generative AI, do not humanise the tool. ChatGPT does not “discuss”, “report”, or “allege” as a human author does.
References
- There is no official guidance yet on how to cite AI-generated content in IEEE style so until we have that advice, cite in the same way as an unpublished source or personal communications.
- You can provide further details of the prompts and output in an appendix.
[5] Name of tool, Publisher of tool, description of communication, Day Month Year.
[5] Output from ChatGPT, OpenAI, after prompt: “Limits of machine learning applications in engineering solutions.” 25 February 2023. See Appendix B.
Conference
- If the year is given in the conference title, it may be omitted from the end of the reference.
- For some common abbreviations in references, seethe IEEE Reference guide
Paper presented at a conference
[1] A. A. Author, "Title of paper," presented at the Abbreviated name of conference, City of Conference, State, year.
[2] J. G. Kreifeldt, "An analysis of surface-detected EMG as an amplitude-modulated noise," presented at the 1989 Int. Conf. Medicine and Biological Engineering, Chicago, IL.
Patent
[1] A. A. Author, "Title of patent," Patent authority xxxx, month, day, year.
[2] W. Sheppard, "Improved liquid soap," U.S. Patent 49561, Aug., 22, 1865.
News article
[1] A. A. Author. "Title of newspaper article," Title of Newspaper: Title of section, pp. xx-xx, month date, year.
[2] P. Hannam. "Wind farms in NSW to face more red tape," The Sydney Morning Herald: Environment, p. 8, Mar., 20, 2014.
Report
[1] A. A. Author, "Title of report", Abbreviated name of company or institution, City of company or institution, Rep. xxxxx, year, vol. x.
[2] R. E. Haskell and C. T. Case, "Transient signal propagation in lossless isotropic plasmas," USAF Cambridge Res. Labs, Cambridge, MA, Rep. ARCRL-66-234 (II), 1994, vol. 2.
Standards
If the year of the standard is included in the Standard reference number, then you do not have to add the year again. For an example of this, see the AS/NZS citation below.
[1] Title of Standard, Standard number, year.
[2] Quality Management Systems – Requirements, AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008.
[3] Standard Test Methods for Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials, ASTM E23 – 12c, 2013.
Website or web document
Provide the full date, if available.
[1] A. A. Author (year, month day). Title of Webpage or Web Document (edition) [Medium]. Available: URL
[2] Engineers Without Borders Australia. (2014). EWB: Our History [Website]. Available: http://www.ewb.org.au/about/our-story
[3] R. Crow and Open Society Institute (2004, Aug.). A Guide to Institutional Repository Software (3rd ed.) [Online]. Available: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_IR_Software_v3.pdf