Prompt engineering refers to designing a question that will give you the results you need. Chatbots are getting better at reading “imperfect” prompts, but it's valuable to follow some principles when crafting a prompt.
If you’re not sure how to write a prompt, you can always ask the chatbot for help - start a new chat, and say something like:
I’m doing research about how the American Civil War began, but I don’t know how to write a good prompt. Can you help me write one?
A straightforward guide to prompt development by Leo Lo at the University of New Mexico
A thorough discussion, continually updated, by DAIR (Democratizing Artificial Intelligence Research)
How citation guides are addressing AI content
Statement from JAMA:
JAMA believes ChatGPT and other genAI chatbot outputs do not qualify for authorship, so there is no standard of citation, as any citation would require the artificial intelligence software to be listed as an author.
Publishers and disciplines have their own approaches to GenAI and those approaches vary in how they do, or do not, address the challenges and opportunities of these technologies.
The links in the list below take you to the policies of major scholarly publishers and represent various approaches and stances. Some guidance addresses both the use of GenAI and the use of artificial intelligence as a research method.
Many publishers and journals have specific AI use policies; however, it is best to check the submission guidance for the particular journal to which you are submitting, or you can contact the editor.