Figure 2.
The example of incomplete, fabricated, and incorrect references provided by ChatGPT. The red color referred to the fabricated references, for which all citation components were inaccurate, including authors, title, journal name, year of publication, digital object identifiers (DOI), and link. The blue highlight was incorrect DOI number. The purple was inaccurate link. The yellow highlighted represented incomplete references, which did not have all six components. The underline was the hyperlink provided by ChatGPT.