ARTH 3306: History of Photography

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online
  • See their Quick Guide for the basics
  • See an example of an annotated bibliography
• Writer's Handbook Chicago
• Chicago Guide from NW Missouri with examples from different databases.

Copies of The Chicago manual of Style are also avaliable at the Alkek Library and the Music Library.

See the Texas State Writing Center's Chicago Style handout here.

Or if you would like to use another style you can look at other Writing & Citation Style Guides such as APA or MLA.

Citing images:

The basic elements needed  for citing images are as follows:

• artist's name, if known
• title of image, if known
• date work was created
• if date is unknown, place n.d. were the date would go
• permanent owner or institution where the artwork is housed
• the location or city

Citing Images Chicago Style from Colgate Visual Resources Library

To see examples of how to cite images in MLA, see the An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph) entry or the A Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph entry from Purdue's Online Writing Lab.

Citing images in APA from the APA Style Blog

From The Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition

3.22 Formal titles in captions

• TxState Writing Center MLA Style Guide 
• MLA (UW-M)
• Purdue OWL
• NW Missouri guide to MLA Style with examples from different databases.
• MLA Handbook - for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers

Copies of the latest print edition of the style manual are also available at the Alkek Library.

More style guides are available on our Writing & Citation Style Guides page.

You'll see something like this:

It's important to know the parts of a citation so you can interpret it correctly. You must have at least the Journal name, volume, issue, and page number to be able to locate the article.