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Guides on How To Cite Your Work
Whether you're writing a paper or creating a work of art, everyone needs to cite their work. Below are links to formatting and style guides.
Academic Citation Resource Guide
This guide is a great place to start if you're unsure about which citation style to use.
APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.
Chicago Manual of Style is commonly used by those in literature, history, and the arts. Note: Please log in with your MICA username and password to access the entire Chicago Manual of Style
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.
Following are several examples of image citations formatted according to MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. For more in-depth examples, check out the resources at Colgate Visual Resources Library.
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo Nacional del Prado, www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-family-of-carlos-iv/f47898fc-aa1c-48f6-a779-71759e417e74. Accessed 22 May 2006.
Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive, www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twittering_machine.jpg.html. Accessed May 2006.
Image with a title from a library database:
Rousseau, H. (1896). The ship in the storm [Painting]. Oxford Art Online.
Image with a title from a web site:
Ochoa, H. (n.d.). [Palm tree; photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/deWLoXklogc
Image without a title from a printed source:
Muybridge, E. (1887). [Photograph of a horse running]. River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild West. By Rebecca Solnit. Viking. 52.
Note: If an image does not have a title, create a brief title and place it in [ ].
Image from a library subscription database:
Hoshiko, Eugene. "China Rain." Photograph. 1999. AP Images, ID99062401980.
Image from an online database:
Currier & Ives. "Gray Eagle." Lithograph. ca. 1866. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006676682/ (accessed September 25, 2010).
Image from a website:
Wilma, David. "El Centro de la Raza, Beacon Hill, Seattle." Photograph. 2001. HistoryLink.org, http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9186 (accessed September 25, 2010).
[In the footnotes, remove the period after image title, and do not capitalize the image type.
EX: Eugene Hoshiko, "China Rain," photograph, 1999, AP Images, ID99062401980.]
Taken From: Images: Image Citation Research Guide University of Washington
