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MLA - Referencing Guide

Images

Information

All images, referred to in the text or reproduced in an essay, assignment or presentation, must be cited and included in your Works Cited list.

For more information about copyright, the use of images, and open access sources of images, please go to Copyright Advice.

More specific information is available for Books and Journal Articles.

Do include the protocol (http:// or https://) with DOIs

Do not include the protocol (http:// or https://) in URLs unless hyperlinking to the resource (unless using a software program such as EndNote that does not allow links without the protocol).

 Cite by title if no creator is given.

Additional information must be provided (depending on the type of electronic publication) to correctly identify that you accessed the document in an electronic format.

The creators' names are given as they appear on the publication you have used, i.e., use full first name where provided or first name initials where initials only are provided.

Titles are given maximal capitalisation (title case).

Format

Standard format for citation

Image reproduced in a book:

Artist or Creator's Surname, Given Names. Title: Subtitle. Year of creation. Reproduced in Full details of book.

 

Image from a database:

Artist or Creator's Surname, Given Names. Title: Subtitle. Publisher, Year. Database Name, doi or internet address.

 

Image from a cinematic work (still) from a database:

Title: Subtitle. Credit Creator Name, Distributor, Year. Database Name, doi or internet address.

 

Online artwork:

Artist or Creator's Surname, Given Names. Title: Subtitle. Year of creation. Source, doi or internet address.

 

Online image:

Artist or Creator's Surname, Given Names. Title: Subtitle. Year of creation. Source, doi or internet address.

 

Original image/artwork (viewed in a gallery or collection):

Artist or Creator's Surname, Given Names. Title: Subtitle. Year of Creation, Gallery or Collection.

Examples

Image/photograph/artwork from a book

Leibovitz, Annie. Olympic Portraits. Little Brown, 1996.

Mapplethorpe, Robert. Some Women. Bulfinch Press, 1989.

Reproduction in a book

Bedford, Paddy. Dingo Dreaming. 2001. Reproduced in McCulloch, Susan, and Emily McCulloch Childs. McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete Guide. McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books, 2008, p. 154.

Image from a book chapter

Ardagna, Claudio Agostino, et al. "Open-Source Solution to Secure E-Government Services." Encyclopedia of Digital Government, edited by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Matti Malkia, e-book ed., Idea Group Reference, 2007, pp.1300-05. IGI Global, www.igi-global.com.libproxy.murdoch.edu.au/gateway/chapter/full-text-pdf/11671.

Hockley, Luke. "Science Fiction." The Television Genre Book, edited by Glen Creber, 2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 36-42.

Image from a journal article

Smith, Paul Julian. "Flight of Fancy." Sight and Sound, vol. 25, no. 1, 2015, pp. 28-31.

Yeh, Quey-Jen, and Xiaojun Xu. "The Effect of Confucian Work Ethics on Learning About Science and Technology Knowledge and Morality." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 95, no. 1, 2010, pp. 111-28. ProQuest, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0352-1.

Image from a newspaper

Leunig, Michael. "Thoughts of a Baby Lying in a Child Care Centre." The Sydney Morning Herald, July 27 1995, p. 24.

Image from a database

The Making of a Monologue: Robert Wilson's Hamlet. Directed by Marion Kessel, Cinema Guild, 1995. Theatre in Video, search.alexanderstreet.com.libproxy.murdoch.edu.au/view/work/1779981.

Online artwork

Heimans, Ralph. Gloves Off (Tom Uren). 1996. National Portrait Gallery, www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2000.36/gloves-off-tom-uren.

Nolan, Sydney. The Encounter. 1946. National Gallery of Australia, cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=28938.

Online image

Newbold, Curtis R. Can I Use that Picture?: The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Pictures. 2014. The Visual Communication Guy, thevisualcommunicationguy.com/2014/07/14/can-i-use-that-picture/.

Online map

Google Maps. The British Library, London, UK. 2015. Google, www.google.com.au/maps/place/The+British+Library/.

Original image/artwork (viewed in a gallery or collection)

Angus, James. Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla. 2006, Art Gallery of Western Australia.


See the All Examples page for examples of in-text and reference list entries for specific resources such as articles, books, and web pages.