Citing Images APA Style

Standard APA Citation of an Image Requires:

1. Owner/Creator/Artist’s name if known

2. Date of Image

3. Name of Image in Italics

4. If no name, describe and put in brackets

5. Type of work in brackets. Use digital image for items found on the Internet.

6. Retrieved from: URL

Citation Structure

Photographer, Artist. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Title of Image [digital image]. Retrieved from URL.

Sample Citation

O’Shea, P. (2015, November). Rescued hedgehog [digital image]. Retrieved from http://flickr.com/photos/peteoshea/5476076002/.

There are web sites that contain photographs that are free to use. Check out these sites and where you can find the appropriate information.

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1. Unsplash.com

Sample Citation:

Burden, A. (2015). Autumn leaf in the wind [digital image]. Retrieved from

https://unsplash.com/search/photos/maple20tree

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Creator

Title and date

2. www.pexels.com

Sample Citation:

Close-up of maple leaves. (2014). [digital image]. Retrieved from

https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-maple-leaves-255381/

3. Shutterstock

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Title

Date

Images can be downloaded by contacting Jill Karpick in the library.

Sample citation:

Vvoe. (n.d.). Branch with yellow and orange autumn maple leaves isolated on white background

[digital image]. Retrieved from https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/branch-yellow-

orange-autumn-maple-leaves-229821442

4. Google Search

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Creator

Title

1. Do not cite the search engine where the image is found, but the website of the image the search engine indexes.

2. Determine copyright status – many photos on Google are NOT in the public domain. This image is not free to use.

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Creator

Date

Title

Sample citation:

Besjunior, L. (2016). Spring time colorful scene. maple tree branch with red leaves, sunny... [digital

image]. Retrieved from https://www.istockphoto.com/ca/photo/spring-time-colorful-scene-

maple-tree-branch-with-red-leaves-gm529677210-93307871

5. Flickr

Not all images have a creative commons license. This one does not.

Sample citation:

Taylor, T. (2006). Japanese maple [digital image]. Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/randomconnections/299562870/

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Creator & Title

Date

Citing Images Within the Document

A caption should include

The word Figure  (with a capital letter and in italics) A number (from 1, in numerical order) A title for the figure or brief description of the work An in text citation for the reference of the source (if not your own work), which includes

the Author(s), date and page number for the source, i.e. (Smith, 2010, p.13)

If you got the image from

A BOOK, reference it as you would a quotation from a book A JOURNAL, reference as you would a quotation from a journal A WEB PAGE, reference it as you would a quotation from a web page

Image etc. taken from a book source

Figure 1. Eurasian pygmy owl in Finland (Olsen, 2011, p. 151)

CITATION FOR BIBLIOGRAPHY

Olsen, J. (2011). Australian High Country Owls. Melbourne: CSIRO PUBLISHING. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true& db=nlebk& AN=415823&site=eds-live

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Image taken from a journal

Figure 2. Evergreen trees provide saw-whet owls with safe cover (Dybas, 2012, p. 25).

CITATION FOR A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dybas, C. L. (2012). Dark Moon Traveler. Natural History, 120(9), 22–27.

 

Image taken from the internet

Figure 3. Alert owl (Hennessy, 2017).

CITATION FOR A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hennessy, R. (2017). Alert owl. Retrieved from https://unsplash.com/photos/n6I2GT_Pij4

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