Research Guides: Investigative Journalism: Citing Sources

Styles

AP Style-book This link opens in a new window
Associated Press style provides guidelines for news writing. Many newspapers, magazines and public relations offices across the United States use AP style. Although some publications such as the New York Times have developed their own style guidelines, a basic knowledge of AP style is considered essential to those who want to work in print journalism.
The 2019 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law includes more than 200 new or revised entries, with chapters covering data journalism, business, fashion, food, religion and sports terms, as well as media law, news values, punctuation, social media, polls and surveys and a new chapter on health and science. Access is for 25 concurrent users.

Why Cite Your Sources

Professional honesty and courtesy: writers have an obligation to indicate when they have used someone else's ideas or words.
Citing sources strengthens the authority of your work. It demonstrates that you have engaged other thinking on the subject you are writing about.
Accurate citations help others locate the materials you used in your research.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools in Academic Work

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and DALL•E2 are language models programmed to respond to prompts or queries by using large data sets to generate, summarize, translate, predict, or recognize text, images, or other content. Many of these systems are now available (e.g. Sudowrite, Jasper, Quillbot, Wordsmith, Writesonice, Article Forge, Midjourney, etc.), and major search engines are becoming integrated with them (e.g. Microsoft Bing now uses ChatGPT, and Google Search will soon include Bard).

Citing AI Tools

How to Cite AI (Feb 2023)
This short post by a UO librarian summarizes information on how to cite AI tools in academic work as of February 2023. Please be aware that guidelines change as rapidly as the technology.