Quick Help: Citing visuals that appear in your text (MLA)

Quick Help: Citing visuals that appear in your text

Citing visuals that appear in your text

If you choose to include images in your text, you need to cite and caption them correctly (see in-text citation model 20).

  • For a work that you have created, the works-cited entry should begin with a descriptive phrase from the image’s caption (“L.A. Bus Stop”), a label (“Photograph by author”), and the date. (For an example, see model 20.)
  • For a visual reproduced from another source, you can include the complete citation information in the caption, 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 If you give the complete citation in the caption and do not cite the visual elsewhere in your text, you can omit the visual from your works-cited page.