Citing AI-Generated Content for Law
The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL) is the only Canadian legal citation style to provide a format for AI-generated content.
COAL suggests the following format for publicly available genAI tools:
Name of AI | , version if available | . Prompt. | (Translation of prompt if applicable). | (Developer | : host if different than developer | , date or date range of response). | URL if conversation publicly saved | (Description of any additional prompts.)
For further guidance, see the full COAL guide, which also provides examples, a citation format for AI that is not publicly available, and a description of what makes an AI publicly available versus not publicly available.
Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide
Available through the CanLii database
Publication Date: 2024
See Section 8: AI-Generated Material