Citing Images
• This page provides information about citing images (also called Figures or Illustrations) that have been previously published and reproduced within your work.
• All images, referred to in the text or reproduced in an essay, assignment or presentation, must be cited and included in your reference list.
• All reproduction of images in your work require an in-text citation, a Caption with a figure number, a Footnote, and an entry in the Bibliography. Place the figure in the text as soon as possible after the first text reference to it.
• Please note that permission may be required to reproduce an image and include it in your own work. For more information about copyright, the use of images, and open-access sources of images, please go to Copyright Matters. See also Chicago Manual of Style 3.30: Sources and permissions.
• When referring to an image in the text of your essay, refer to it by the figure number you have assigned it, for example: “as figure 1 shows, Robert Mapplethorpe24 has managed to embody . . .” OR "Robert Mapplethorpe24 has managed to embody the mother-daughter relationship (fig.1)..."
Note: The abbreviation to fig. is used only for in-text citations placed within brackets (parenthetical in-text citations).
Example Image and Caption embedded in-text:
Figure 1. A famous mother pictured with her daughter. 1989.