• sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish
    522·
    4 months ago

    This is what LLMs are for. Just double check their work.

    Edit: It seems based on the many downotes that I don’t know shit about citations 😅

    Guys, I have no idea, never had to write one of these. 😅 It was just a suggestion.

    I use GPT4o daily for work stuff. It often does the job pretty reliably. However all the inserting citation into the text would of course not work, seems that zotero that others are mentioning is made for the job and would therefore do it much better.

    It seems people let their prejudices get in the way of using LLMs like the limited tools they are. They are not AI, just a pretty decent guessing machine with multiple limitations.

      • sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish
        56·
        4 months ago

        Here’s an example prompt;

        Prompt for LLM on Generating APA Citations (7th Edition)

        Instructions: I need to create APA format citations for my research paper based on the 7th edition of the APA guidelines. Below are examples of correct APA citations for different types of sources, followed by a list of sources that need to be cited. Please generate the citations accurately, paying special attention to formatting rules such as capitalization, italicization, and punctuation.

        Important Formatting Rules:

        1. Titles: For journal articles and web pages, use sentence case (capitalize only the first word of the title and subtitle, if any, and any proper nouns). For books and journals, use title case (capitalize all major words) and italicize the title.
        2. Authors: List up to 20 authors in the citation. For more than 21 authors, list the first 19 followed by an ellipsis and the final author’s name.
        3. DOIs and URLs: Always include the full DOI or URL as clickable links without a period at the end.

        Citation Examples:

        1. Journal article: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of the article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

        2. Book: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

        3. Website: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the webpage. Website Name. URL

        Sources List:

        1. Smith, J. (2022). Understanding LLMs. Journal of AI Research, 15(2), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jair.2022.05.001
        2. Brown, L., & Green, T. (2019). AI in modern education. Cambridge University Press.
        3. Miller, S. (2021, June 5). The evolution of language models. Tech Times. https://www.techtimes.com/evolution-language-models
        4. Johnson, P., Lee, M., & Black, R. (2020). The future of AI in society. AI and Ethics Review, 22(4), 215-230.

        Additional Instructions:

        • Ensure that article titles are in sentence case, while journal names and book titles are in title case and italicized.
        • For multiple authors, follow APA guidelines and use “&” between authors, with commas separating names.
        • Make sure DOIs and URLs are accurate and correctly formatted as clickable links.

        Once you have generated the citations, please double-check for consistency in formatting (capitalization, italics, and punctuation) and ensure that all sources follow the APA 7th edition rules.

        Thank you!

        • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
          111·
          4 months ago

          Good joke, you’d have to double and triple check every single citation as LLMs love to hallucinate.

          I wouldn’t risk my title or expulsion because an LLM fucked up my work. Even one missed reference or a false citation could cost you plenty.

        • phdepressed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          This only builds a formated bibliography where your input is an unformated bibliography… It also can’t accurately do the more tedious (and important)part of actually putting the in text citations. In short you have to do the same amount of upfront work of getting all the relevant citations in a list then additional work on checking that the llm formatted properly and didn’t hallucinate then still have to go put in the in text citations.

          Wheres with endnote or zotero you choose from your list add the intext, autoformat from your choice and it’s automatically put in a formatted bibliography.

    • smplEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      That’s a lot of trouble, you can just ask it if it’s telling the truth.