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Citation Managers
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Chicago Style
Online guides to Chicago Style:
Citing Images in Chicago Style:
Bibliography:
Images from Print Sources:
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Date. Medium, height x width x depth (unit conversion). Location.
Example 1: The Swimming Reindeer. 11th millennium BCE. Mammoth ivory, 20.7 cm × 3 cm × 2.7 cm (8.1 in × 1.2 in × 1.1 in). British Museum, London, England.
Example 2: Frederick, Ivan. The Hooded Man. 2003. Photograph. The Economist, cover, May 8, 2004.
Digital Images/Images from Online Sources:
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Date. Medium, height x width x depth (unit conversion). Location. URL.
Example 3: Friedrich, Caspar David. Der Mönch am Meer. 1808-10. Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 171.5 cm (43 in × 67.5 in). Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/KwEv_TMiJhn5kA.
Footnote/Endnote:
Images from Print Sources:
Firstname, Lastname. Title, date, medium, height x width x depth (unit conversion), location.
Example 1: The Swimming Reindeer, 11th millennium BCE, mammoth ivory, 20.7 cm × 3 cm × 2.7 cm (8.1 in × 1.2 in × 1.1 in), British Museum, London, England.
Example 2: Ivan Frederick, The Hooded Man, 2003, photograph, The Economist, cover, May 8, 2004.
Digital Images/Images from Online Sources:
Firstname, Lastname. Title, date, medium, height x width x depth (unit conversion), location, URL.
Example 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Der Mönch am Meer, 1808–10, oil on canvas, 110 cm × 171.5 cm (43 in × 67.5 in), Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/KwEv_TMiJhn5kA.
MLA Style
Online guides to MLA Style:
Citing Images in MLA Style:
General Image Citation:
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Year, Location.
Example: Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Reproductions of an image (in a book, article, etc.):
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Year, Location of Original Work. Work where image appears, # ed., by Firstname Lastname, Publisher, p. Page number.
Example: Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Gardener's Art Through the Ages, 10th ed., by Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Harcourt Brace, p. 939.
Digital Images/Images from Online Sources:
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Year. Title of Website, URL.
Example: Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-family-of-carlos-iv/f47898fc-aa1c-48f6-a779-71759e417e74.
