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Most UK universities never set one referencing style. The decision sits at department or module level, so the real answer lives in a handbook or library guide, not in a guess based on your subject.
MLA refuses to call ChatGPT an author, so a Works Cited entry for it opens with your own prompt instead. Here is the six-element order MLA actually uses, its own worked example, and the shortened-prompt form the in-text citation takes.
A rewriter that treats (Smith, 2020, p. 44) as ordinary prose will mangle it. Here is what actually breaks in APA, MLA and IEEE citations when a paragraph gets humanized, and what a citation-safe pass has to do differently.
What actually causes ChatGPT's habit of leaning on the em dash, what job the mark is doing in a sentence, and what a human editor reaches for instead: a comma, a colon, or a full stop.
A working reference for the vocabulary that marks machine-drafted prose, whichever assistant produced it: more than forty overused words organised by register, fifty stock phrases mapped to the one word that replaces each, the research on why models favour this exact list, and the editing pass that clears it out of a finished manuscript.
Getting caught is rarely a single moment triggered by a percentage score. It is a defined process with stages, evidence standards and appeal rights, most of which never make it past a first conversation. Here is what that process actually looks like end to end, using a published university procedure rather than a guess.