Being a Good (Digital) Citizen - Citing Images

Citing your sources is important because:

• Giving credit (attribution) to original authors helps you avoid plagiarizing
• Citations allow your readers to find your sources
• Citations add credibility to your arguments
• Your professors expect it as part of standard academic discourse

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

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

Different citation formats are used by different academic disciplines.  Professors will often require a particular format, but if they have no preference these guidelines may be helpful:

• APA - psychology, education, and other social sciences
• MLA - literature, arts, and humanities
• Turabian - also used often in literature, history, and the arts
• Chicago - used with all subjects in the "real world" by books, magazines, newspapers and other non-scholarly publications