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Finding and Using Images in your Classroom, Publications, & Presentations: Cite Your Sources

Citation Management

Have a lot of citations you want to enter in your works cited/references list? Try a citation manager.

Do you need the Web or Desktop version?

 

  • Organize your research Include citations while you write your paper
  • Build a bibliography in a variety of formats
  • Import references from library databases and Google Scholar.

Chicago Manual of Style Links

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

 

Frontispiece of Christian Prayers and Meditations (London: John Daye, 1569), showing Queen Elizabeth at prayer in her private chapel. Reproduced by permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Trustees of the Lambeth Palace Library.

 

The head of Venus—a detail from Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.

 

Francis Bedford, Stratford on Avon Church from the Avon, 1860s. Albumen print of collodion negative, 18.8 × 28.0 cm. Rochester, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

 

Friedrich Overbeck and Peter Cornelius, double portrait, pencil drawing, 1812. Formerly in the Collection Lehnsen, Scarsdale, New York.
 
 

Creative Commons Licenses

From Creative Commons Non-Profit Organization: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/