At a Glance: Citing Visuals that Appear in Your Text

Citing Visuals That Appear in Your Text

AT A GLANCE

If you choose to include images in your text, you need to cite and caption them correctly (see pp. 468–69).

  • For a work that you have created, the works-cited entry should begin with a descriptive phrase from the image’s caption (“Bus stop in Los Angeles”), a label (“Photograph by author”), and the date.
  • For a visual reproduced from another source, you can include the complete citation information in the caption (see model 19 on p. 468), or you can indicate the source to allow readers to find it on the list of works cited. If you give the complete citation in the caption and do not cite the visual elsewhere in your text, you can omit the visual from your works-cited page.