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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.
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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.
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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.