Wonderchat Documentation
  • ๐Ÿ‘‹Welcome to Wonderchat
  • Overview
    • โš–๏ธPricing
    • โœจOur Features
    • ๐Ÿ”Content Overview
  • Setup Guides
    • ๐Ÿ“ชSetting up your Chatbot
      • Creating Your First Chatbot
      • How to set-up a Spontaneous Greeting Message
      • Setting up Multi-lingual Chatbots
      • How to Pick Between Source Citations Options For Your Chatbot
      • Add Suggested Questions to your Chatbot
      • Selecting Between AI models for your chatbots
      • How to Crawl and Update Private Sites
      • How to Customize Your Notification Settings for Your Chatbot
    • ๐Ÿค–Training your Chatbot
      • How to add or delete webpages or websites from your chatbot
      • How to manually update your Chatbot website link for Re-Crawling
      • How to use PDF and website links simultaneously as data sources for your chatbot
      • How to upload Videos and Audio files into Wonderchat
      • How to add or delete PDFs from your chatbot
      • Writing Support Documentation for AI Chatbots
    • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธAdding your Chatbot to your website
      • How to Embed a Chat Widget
      • How to Embed a Chat Screen
      • Embedding for Wix
      • Embedding for Shopify
      • Embedding for WordPress
      • Embedding for Drupal
      • Embedding for Webflow
    • โœ๏ธCorrecting your Chatbot
      • How to Set Up Chatbot Corrections
      • How to Resolve Pending Corrections
      • Export and Import Corrections
    • ๐Ÿ’…Styling your Chatbot
      • How to Adjust Chat Widget Size
      • Customizing Your Chatbot's Style and Color
      • Using Custom CSS to style your chatbot
    • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ผHuman Handover for your Chatbots
      • AI Chatbot Handover to Human Support via Email
      • How to Set Up Live Chat within Wonderchat
    • ๐Ÿ“‡Collecting Leads with your Chatbot
      • How to set-up leads generation sequences
      • How to collect user names, emails and phone numbers from users
      • Turning on email notifications for every new lead collected
      • [For Enterprise Users] How to Route Chats by Topic to Sales Representatives
    • ๐ŸคSharing your Chatbot
      • How to Share Your Chatbot Publicly
      • How to Add Team Members to Wonderchat
    • ๐Ÿ”‹Using Chatbot Tools
      • Set-up Custom Chatbot Tools
    • โš™๏ธAdding Chatbot Workflows
      • Set-up Chatbot Workflows
  • Integration Guides
    • Active Campaign
    • Calendly
    • Freshdesk
    • HubSpot
      • Adding Wonderchat Tags to Hubspot
    • Shopify
    • Slack
      • Slack (via Zapier)
    • Twilio
    • WhatsApp
    • Zapier App
    • Zendesk
    • Google Drive
    • Microsoft Sharepoint
  • FAQ
    • How To Exclude VAT/GST Charge at Checkout
    • How To Exclude VAT/GST Charge after Checkout (via Tax Refund)
    • How to Apply a Promo Code at Checkout
    • Upgrading Wonderchat Subscription
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  • How to turn on or off source citations for chat responses
  • Source Citation Types
  • 1. Cite Similar Sources
  • 2. Cite most appropriate sources (Deprecated)
  • 3. Cite from PDF source

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  1. Setup Guides
  2. Setting up your Chatbot

How to Pick Between Source Citations Options For Your Chatbot

How to pick between chatbot source citations.

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Every Wonderchat bot is equipped with the ability to cite sources. Letโ€™s take a deep dive onto what type of source citation methods would benefit your chatbot the most.

How to turn on or off source citations for chat responses

To turn on the source citation setting, navigate to the Edit Chatbot page and under the "General" tab, navigate to the "Citation Settings".

Ensure that the "Cite URL sources when answering" setting is checked for a chatbot to be able to cite a source for every response it gives out.

Source Citation Types

1. Cite Similar Sources

The โ€˜cite similar sourcesโ€™ setting is most suitable for chatbots that are built on website links.

This setting allows your chatbot to display a โ€˜read moreโ€™ section below, which would link to webpages that serve as the sources of truths for the chatbotโ€™s responses.

If you find that the existing chatbotโ€™s response does not include a page link that you want, you can add the page link as a correction here.

2. Cite most appropriate sources (Deprecated)

This source citation is recommended if you want your chatbot to respond with the raw link of a source.

It is highly recommended that you use this setting in combination with a GPT-4 model to prevent link hallucinations where a chatbot would recommend a wrong link.

3. Cite from PDF source

It is recommended that this option is turned off unless you prefer your chatbot to cite the exact PDF source name and page where it fetches the information from.

As you can see in the image above, enabling PDF source citations is only useful when you wish for the bot to pinpoint exactly which part of a PDF document they have obtained their information from.


If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out to us at support@wonderchat.io

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Click on the โ€œโ‹ฎโ€ and go to โ€œEdit Chatbotโ€
Go under "General" tab and scroll down
Under the source citation settings, you can edit all information related to the chatbot's sources
To cite PDF pages as sources, toggle the PDF source citation settings.