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Cite Google Gemini correctly in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17, Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver. Google and the tool's URL are already filled in; add the version from the selector, the date and your prompt, and copy the reference entry with every in-text form. Built on the guidance the style manuals published for generative AI.
The version is in the product's model picker or settings. The prompt makes MLA, Chicago and Harvard entries complete; APA works without it.
Google. (n.d.). Gemini [Large language model]. https://gemini.google.com/
(Google, n.d.)
The company is the author, so it carries the citation; the model is named in your sentence.
Google (n.d.)
When prompted, Gemini generated... (Google, n.d.)
APA suggests describing the prompt in the text or method section; longer transcripts can go in an appendix.
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Open the model picker or settings in Gemini and note the exact version you used. AI tools change weekly, so the version is what makes your citation reproducible, the same way an edition dates a book.
Record when the text was generated and what you asked. MLA and Chicago build the citation around the prompt itself, and every style dates the exchange somewhere.
Pick APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE or Vancouver and copy the entry with italics intact, plus the in-text forms and the note or disclosure wording the style expects.
APA, MLA and Chicago published real AI citation guidance in 2023. Each output follows its manual: Google as author for APA, prompt as title for MLA, footnote-only for Chicago.
Company and URL are filled in. You add the three things only you know: which version answered, on which date, to which prompt.
Pre-2024 exchanges are cited as Bard, later ones as Gemini. Swap the model name and the generator reformats every style around it.
Parenthetical and narrative citations, the Chicago footnote and shortened note, and the disclosure wording IEEE and ICMJE journals expect, each one copy away.
Gemini reaches students and researchers from more directions than most AI tools: the chat interface at its own address, the assistant built into Android, and the same models surfacing inside Docs and Gmail through Workspace. However it reached you, the citation works the same way. The style manuals' guidance, written around ChatGPT in 2023, transfers directly: the company in the author position for APA, your prompt as the title of the source for MLA, a footnote and nothing else for Chicago. Swap in Google and Gemini and every rule lands unchanged.
Two details are Gemini's own. The first is naming history: the product launched as Bard and became Gemini in February 2024, so a citation records whichever name the tool carried on the date of the exchange. The second is versioning: Gemini models pair a generation number with a capability tier, 2.5 Pro or 2.5 Flash, and the two tiers can answer the same prompt differently. The version selector's exact wording belongs in the version field, with the conversation's date alongside it, because that pair is what makes the citation reproducible.
The boundaries are the industry's, not Google's. Gemini cannot be an author of your paper: the ICMJE, COPE and publishers including Nature and Science all hold that authorship carries responsibility no algorithm can bear, so the model is cited as a source or disclosed as a tool. And references Gemini proposes are leads to verify, not citations to paste: language models invent convincing papers, so each suggestion needs checking against a real database before it enters your reference list.
The check itself is in the hallucinated-citation audit, and the main citation generator formats verified records from Crossref. Citing other AI tools too? The AI citation generator covers ten model families, with ChatGPT and Claude on their own pages.
One Gemini conversation, taken apart in six styles. Hover any coloured part of the reference entry or the in-text variations to see what it is and the rule behind it.
Google. (2026). Gemini (2.5 Pro version) [Large language model]. https://gemini.google.com/
The pattern the APA Style blog published for ChatGPT, applied to any AI model. Alphabetize under the company's name in the reference list.
(Google, 2026)
Google (2026)...
When prompted, Gemini generated... (Google, 2026)
APA recommends describing the prompt in the text or method section; a full transcript can go in an appendix.
(Google, 2026)
AI output has no page numbers, so no p. locator is possible; make clear in the sentence that the words are the model's.
Hover or tap any coloured part for what it is and the rule behind it.
Six conventions that separate a correct Gemini citation from an improvised one.
In APA and the styles that follow its logic, the company takes the author position and Gemini is the italicized title. The model is never an author of your paper.
Gemini versions read like 2.5 Pro or 2.5 Flash: a generation number and a capability tier. Copy it from the version selector exactly as shown.
Google renamed Bard to Gemini in February 2024. Cite the name the product carried on the date of the exchange, so older conversations keep Bard.
MLA builds the entry around what you asked, Chicago quotes it in the footnote, Harvard names it in the description. Keep your prompts; they are bibliographic data.
A Gemini footnote never gets a bibliography line in either Chicago system, the manual's personal-communication treatment for any AI exchange.
Citations cover Gemini's words in your text; a disclosure statement covers its role in your process. Journals increasingly expect both, in the methods or acknowledgments.
The same exchange formatted for every style the generator supports. Note where the prompt appears, where it does not, and which styles keep Gemini out of the reference list entirely.
Reference list entry
Google. (2026). Gemini (2.5 Pro version) [Large language model]. https://gemini.google.com/
Works Cited entry
"Explain the difference between correlation and causation for a first-year statistics student" prompt. Gemini, 2.5 Pro version, Google, 14 July 2026, gemini.google.com.
Footnote (Chicago cites AI in notes only)
Gemini, response to "Explain the difference between correlation and causation for a first-year statistics student," Google, 14 July 2026.
In-text citation (no reference list entry)
(Gemini, 14 July 2026)
Reference list entry
Google Gemini (2026) Gemini response to prompt 'Explain the difference between correlation and causation for a first-year statistics student', 14 July.
Reference list entry
[1] Google, Gemini (2.5 Pro version) [Large language model], 2026. [Online]. Available: https://gemini.google.com/ (accessed 14 July 2026).
Reference list entry
1. Gemini (2.5 Pro version) [Large language model]. Google; 2026 [cited 14 July 2026]. Available from: https://gemini.google.com/
All seven come from the generator above. The prompt and dates are examples; substitute the details of your own conversation.
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