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APA 7th ed. - Referencing Tool

Referencing - Figures & Images

Image from a website

  • - Every image included in your assignment needs a caption.  If the image is not your own work, it also requires an in-text citation.
  • - The caption should include
    • - The word Fig. and a number (from 1, in numerical order), both in bold font.
    • - A title or brief description of the figure in italics. Include an in-text citation with author, date, and page number..
  • - Enter a full reference, including copyright attribution in the reference list.

Please note: 

If you are preparing a thesis, or a paper for publication, or your work is going to be made publicly available in any way, you will need to ensure you have the correct permissions to re-use any images, data, tables and figures that you may reproduce in your work. For further information, refer to our Copyright pages

 

 

Reference List Entry

Author name OR online name. (Year). Title. Website name/Source. Copyright attribution. URL.  

In text example

 Reference list example

Fig. 1

Christina's World (Wyeth, 1948)

 

Fig. 2

Piriformis Stretch (Long, 2013)

 

 

Wyeth, A. (1948).Christina’s world. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States. Copyright 2012 by Andrew Wyeth. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78455

 

 

 

 

Long, R.A. (2013). Healing with yoga: Piriformis syndrome. Copyright 2010 - 2017 by Raymond A. Long, MD. http://www.dailybandha.com/2013/12/healing-with-yoga-piriformis-syndrome.html

Note: If you are using an image from a website page that includes text, only reference the section of that page and include the copyright attribution. 

 

Image from Google images

Go to the original source by selecting the image and then clicking ‘Visit page’.

Then follow the format above for images from a website.

Image from a book or journal

  • - Every image included in your assignment needs a caption.  If the image is not your own work, it also requires an in-text citation.
  • - The caption should include
    • - The word Fig. and a number (eg Fig. 1), both in bold font.
    • - A title or brief description of the figure in italics. 
    • - The author, date, and page number.
  • - Enter a full reference for the book or journal, including copyright attribution in the reference list.
  • - If you have used both text and an image from the same book or journal, only include the reference once in the reference list and include the copyright attribution

Please note: 

If you are preparing a thesis, or a paper for publication, or your work is going to be made publicly available in any way, you will need to ensure you have the correct permissions to re-use any images, data, tables and figures that you may reproduce in your work. For further information, refer to our Copyright pages

 

Reference list example

Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Book title: Subtitle. Copyright attribution. URL or DOI

In text example

 Reference list example

Fig. 4

Important Childhood Micronutrients (Insel et al., 2007, p. 689)

Include the page number or chapter in the in-text citation where available

 

Insel, P., Turner, R.E., & Ross, D. (2007). Nutrition (3rd ed.). Copyright 2007 by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Clip Art or Stock Images

- To reproduce clip art or stock images, permission and/or a copyright attribution may be necessary in addition to the reference.

For information on sources of Clip Art and Stock Images as well as when attribution is necessary visit:

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/clip-art-references

Please note: 

If you are preparing a thesis, or a paper for publication, or your work is going to be made publicly available in any way, you will need to ensure you have the correct permissions to re-use any images, data, tables and figures that you may reproduce in your work. For further information, refer to our Copyright pages

In text example

 Reference list example

Fig. 5

Neural Network Deep Learning Prismatic (GDJ, 2018)

 

GDJ. (2018). Neural network deep learning prismatic. Openclipart. Copyright 2018 by GDJ. https://openclipart.org/detail/309344/neural-network-deep-learning-prismatic-2