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Radiation Therapy: Professor Dillard's Assignment: Images, Charts & Graphs

This guide will help students find resources for the poster project in Professor Dillard's course.

Overview

This page provides information and examples on how to cite figures such as charts and graphs using APA.  The page also includes links to resources for images.  If you would like to know more about copyright and fair attribution, please see the libguide Copyright.

Poster Template

Medical Images

Free to Share Images (Non-Medical)

The websites listed here are starting places for your search of free-to-share materials on the web.  Other websites may also be helpful, just be sure you know how the original creator intended for their work to be used.

  • Adobe Stock Images 
  • Texas State students have free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite including Adobe Stock photos, which can be used freely without attribution.  Instructions on access can be found online at Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Once you have logged into Creative Cloud look for the Stock link on the left side of the screen.

Reprinting or Adapting Tables and Figures

APA 7.7 Reprinting or Adapting Tables and Figures

If you reprint or adapt a table or figure from another source in your paper (e.g., a table from your own published work, an image you found on the internet), you must include a copyright attribution in the table note or figure note indicating the origin of the reprinted or adapted material in addition to a reference list entry for the work.  

APA Clip art or stock images references

Please refer to the following page for information regarding citations for clip art or stock images with or without attribution requirement:

Clip Art or Stock Image References (APA 7th)

Chart, Table & Figure APA Citation Examples

The highlighted text demonstrates how to cite a figure obtained from another source that is copyrighted. The image provides a visual of what the citation should look like in your paper or poster:

 

Note: Mean regression slopes in Experiment 1 are shown for the stereo motion, biocularly viewed monocular motion, comined, and monocularly viewed monocularly viewed monocular motion conditions, plotted by rotation amount.  Error bars represent standard errors.  From "Large Continuous Perspective Change With Noncoplanar Points Enables Accurate Slant Perception," by X.M. Wang, M. Lind, and G.P. Bingham, 2018, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(10), p.1513 (https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000553). Copyright 2018 by the American Psychological Association.  

APA citation example for figure from another source

The highlighted text demonstrates how to cite a figure obtained from another source that is in the public domain. The image provides a visual of what the citation should look like in your paper or poster:

Note.  The U.S. percentage does not include data for Puerto Rico.  Adapted from 2017 Poverty Rate in the United States, by U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 (https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-poverty-map.html).  In the public domain.

APA citation example of a figure adapted from the public domain.