Other sources

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

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. Instead, simply acknowledge your use of the tool, when you used it and details of how you used it.

References

• There is not official guidance on how to cite AI tools in the Numbered Citation style, so until we have that advice, cite as follows.
• You can provide further details of the prompts and output in an appendix.

Computer program

Computer programs that are released through a program library, e.g. the Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange or the Computer Physics Communications Library, are referenced as journal articles, based on the announcement of the program's release.

Computer programs that are released through an institution or a commercial publisher should be referenced like a book, except that the title of the computer program is not italicised.

Thesis

• The title is not included.
• The thesis type is the name of the degree for which the thesis has been submitted.
• Theses should only be cited when the information has not been published elsewhere.

Web sources

Material from the web must always be checked for reliability, accuracy and appropriateness. Anonymous content should not be used because the accuracy cannot be checked. For guidelines on evaluating materials from the web, see:

'Appendix G: Reliability of World Wide Web Reference Materials' in: K. Lim, Chemistry Style Manual, Deakin University, Geelong, rev. edn., 2010.

Note the following when referencing sources from websites (not including journal articles accessed online nor e-books):

• A web citation should provide the author, title of document/webpage, the URL, the year of publication, and the full date the material was accessed.
• If there is no identifiable author, list the institution responsible for the website.
• If you have to break a web address across a line, do so after a slash or before a full stop. Do not add a hyphen at the line break.