Being a Good (Digital) Citizen - Citing Images

Want to use images you found online in a presentation or paper? You’ll need to cite them.

Information You Will Need to Create Citations

To cite images, you will need at least some of this information (depending on what image you are citing, where it is held, the citation style you are using, etc.)

Name of the photographer
Title of work (if there is one)
Date created
Institution where it is held (if applicable)
City of institution (if applicable)
Database you used to access
Date accessed

Citation Tools

Bibme Bibliography Generator
Free automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting
Citation Machine
Assists students and professional researchers to properly credit the information they use.
NCSU Citation Builder
Citation Builder creates citations for you in APA, MLA, and Chicago CBE/CSE formats.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

RefWorks: Manage - Store - Format - Cite

RefWorks is an online tool that helps you manage, store, format and cite resources used in the research process.