Citing Sources & Citation Styles

Learn about how to cite works in your research papers. Links to citation software that can help you create and manage your works cited lists.

Citing Images

Images or pictures that you use in a presentation or research papers must be cited. Any items obtained from the web or scanned from a print source should be attributed to the owner of the copyrighted work.

 

Citing online images and charts, using MLA:

As a general rule, the following elements are needed in the citation:

  • Corporate or Individual Author (Last, First, M.)
  • "Title of Chart or Image."
  • Database name,
  • Database provider,
  • Date of image or chart,
  • URL.

 

National Mining Association. "Steam Coal Exports from The United States from 1985 to 2022 (in Million Short Tons)." Statista,

        Statista Inc., 15 Feb 2023, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/statistics/1024848/us-steam-coal-exports/.

 

Citation Example, for images of works of art viewed in person and online:

 

As a general rule, the following elements are needed in the citation:

  • Artist's Name, if known or Author (Last, First, M.)
  • Title of Item, Image, or Work.
  • Year of work.
  • Institution where held, if known. (Museum Name, City) (if viewed in person)
  • Database Name or Website where image was viewed, (if viewed online)
  • URL. (if viewed online)

 

In person:

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

 

Online:

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Oxford Art Online, www-oxfordartonline-

        com.ezproxy.babson.edu/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/

        oao-9781884446054-e-8000014920.

 

Reproduction in Print Book:

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Gardener's Art Through the Ages,

        10th ed., by Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Harcourt Brace, p. 939.

 

Image of Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV