APA 7th referencing style

UQ's AI Student Hub assists you in learning how to use artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly and effectively in your studies.

Confirm with your course coordinator or check your course profile before using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your assessment. Some assessment pieces do not permit the use of AI tools, while others may allow AI with some limitations. 

Any permitted use of AI for assessment must be acknowledged appropriately. Your course profile will have guidance on how to acknowledge any permitted use of AI in your assessments, which might include:

• an assignment coversheet 
• citing or referencing in the text or list of references.

If you use AI in your assessment without permission or appropriate acknowledgment it may be considered Academic Misconduct.

AI models sometimes produce incorrect, biased or outdated information. Verify the accuracy of AI-generated content using reliable sources before including it in your work.

Additionally, there may be legal or ethical issues to consider when using AI. Works created by non-humans are not eligible for copyright protection under Australian law. If you intend to publish work incorporating AI-generated content, check the publisher guidelines about what is allowed.

When interacting with AI models, you should be cautious about supplying sensitive information, including personal, confidential or propriety information or data.

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Where an assignment requires the use of AI tools to be cited, you must reference all content from AI tools that you include. Failure to reference externally sourced, non-original work can result in Academic misconduct.

References should provide clear and accurate information for each source and should identify where they have been used in your work.

Content from AI tools is not always easy to share or replicate using the same prompt. If the AI tool provides a shareable link, you should use this when you acknowledge your use of AI.

Based on APA Style guidance.

In-text

Author of AI model, Year of version used

Example:

(OpenAI, 2022)

OpenAI (2022)

(Microsoft, 2025)

Microsoft (2025)

Reference list

Author of AI model used. (Year of AI model used). Name of AI model used (Version of AI model used) [Type or description of AI model used]. Web address of AI model used

Example:

OpenAI. (2022). ChatGPT (Dec 20 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/

Microsoft. (2025). Copilot [Large language model]. https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/

The full transcript of a response can be included in an appendix or other supplementary materials.

Visit How to cite ChatGPT for more information.

You should acknowledge that you used AI in submitted assessment, including where you have directly quoted or paraphrased AI-generated content or used tools to summarise readings, brainstorm ideas, plan your process, or for editing or proofreading purposes. It is recommended that you use an assignment coversheet to acknowledge your use of AI tools.

You should include the following information when acknowledging the use of AI tools:

• AI tool (e.g. Copilot, Chat-GPT, Claude, Google AI)
• description of how you used the tool (e.g. edited/corrected/translated/planned/brainstormed)
• prompt(s) used
• part, section or page of the assessment piece
• date.

Machine Translation for assignments provides more detailed guidance for acknowledging the use of translation tools.

Example coversheet

This coversheet is an example of good practice in acknowledging the use of AI tools. Courses across UQ may have specific guidance you should follow on how to acknowledge the use of AI.

Acknowledgment

Yes. AI and/or machine translation tools have been used to generate material in this document.

Details of use

Watch Acknowledging and referencing AI (YouTube, 2m42s).

Different publishers are taking different approaches to whether AI is allowed. If you are writing for publication, you should check the publisher's information for authors.

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