Use these best practices to quote or reproduce the image content generated by AI in your paper:
Applying MLA's Template to cite images generated by AI
Entry in the works-cited-list is optional for AI generated images. If you choose not to create a works-cited-list entry for your image, you must include all information in your caption.
TEMPLATE & EXAMPLE
Notes:
Author: Use the "Title of source" rather than name of AI tool as author.
Title of Source: Description of AI-generated content, such as the prompt if not already done in the text
Title of Container: Name of AI tool, such as ChatGPT
Version: The version of the tool used. As the format for version number is still evolving, use either the date (e.g. 13 Feb version), a version number (e.g. ChatGPT 3.5; ), or, a name (e.g. Claude 3.7 sonnet).
Publisher: Name of company that developed the tool
Date: Date the content was generated
Location: Provide the specific URL to the image created, or, to the general URL for the tool
Entry in the works-cited-list is optional for AI generated images. If you choose not to create a works-cited-list entry for your image, you must include all information in your caption.
Caption goes below image
IMAGE GOES HERE
Fig. X. "Description of AI-generated content" description type. Name of AI tool, version, author, date, location.
Works-cited
"Description of AI-generated content" description type. Name of AI tool, version, author, date, location.
Fig. 1. "A photo of a teddy bear on a skateboard in Times Square" prompt, DALL-E, version 2, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, https://openai.com/dall-e-2.
Works-cited
"A photo of a teddy bear on a skateboard in Times Square" prompt, DALL-E, version 2, OpenAI, 8 Mar.
2023, https://openai.com/dall-e-2.