A two-minute video and brief overview of when major style guidelines require citation of generative AI.

Bat holding citation books

For more information on citing AI and other sources, visit the
Coates Library Citing Sources guide.

APA-style references:

OpenAI. (2025). Bat holding APA, MLA, Chicago, and ASA books [AI-generated image]. Generated in ChatGPT (Version 4) using a prompt requesting a soft-realistic flying fox holding a vertical stack of four books labeled APA, MLA, Chicago, and ASA.

Loper, E. M. (2025). When you need to cite generative AI (and when you don’t) [Video]. Coates Library, Trinity University.