Citing Images
The basic information you will need:
- Artist name
- Title of the work
- Date it was created
- Repository, museum, or owner
- City or Country of origin
- Dimensions of the work
- Material or medium such as oil on canvas, marble, found objects
If you found the image in a book you will need the author, title, publisher information, date, and page, figure or plate number of the reproduction.
If you found the image online you will need an access date, the web site address (URL) and in some cases an image ID number.
MLA Citation Examples
In text citation
| Known Author: |
| (Wordsworth 263) |
| example: Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263). |
| Unknown Author |
| ("Impact of Global Warming" 6) |
| example: [T]his region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming" 6). |
Reference List
| Electronic Journal Article: |
Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy: Current Conditions and Future Directions.” Social Work and Society: The International Online-Only Journal 6.2 (2008): n. pag. Web. 20 May 2009. |
Print Journal: |
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50. Print. |
Book: |
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print. |
*example taken from the Purdue Owl site.
Images
MLA - Cite the artist's name, title, usually underlined, and the institution or individual who owns the work, and the city.If you want to indicate the work's date, include it after the title. For a work of art you viewed online, end your citation with your date of access and the URL.
- Botticelli, Sandro. Birth of Venus. c. 1482. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. ARTstor. 6 Jun. 2011.
Parts of an Article Citation (in OneSearch)
OneSearch@IU Article Citation:
Quoting vs. Paraphrasing
Your project may necessitate the use of both direct quotes and paraphrases.
Both quotes and paraphrases must be cited.
Direct quotes are word-for-word quotations.
Cite them with quotation marks and an in-text citation.
e.g., The Gettyburg Address opens "Four score and seven years ago" (Lincoln, 1863, p. #).
Paraphrases restate someone else's ideas in your own words.
Cite with an in-text citation.
e.g., The Gettysburg Address opens by looking to past decades (Lincoln, 1863, p. #).