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APA Referencing Style: Citing images

This is a guide to using the APA 7th referencing style from the American Psychological Association. It is based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Citing images

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

 When referring to an image in the text of your essay, give a short citation consisting of the name of the creator(s) or author(s), the date of publication or creation and, if appropriate, the relevant page, figure, table, paragraph number or time:

Debate raged about the ethics of child care after the publication of the cartoon "Thoughts of a Baby Lying in a Child Care Centre" in the Sydney Morning Herald (Leunig, 1995, p. 24).

The power and strength of the female athlete is depicted in Leibovitz's portrait of Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1996, p. 72).

The positive and negative implications of five aspects of Confucian ethics were analysed (Yeh & Xu, 2010, Table 1).

Ardagna et al. have created a three layer structure for e-services; e-service components, an application server and the operating system platform (2008, Figure 1).

Ryder has created a framework to illustrate the major factors which influence moral decision making (2006, para. 10).

The fear of the officers, who had no desire to meet with Ned Kelly, is unambiguously portrayed on the face of the trooper in the painting The Encounter (Nolan, 1946).

The artistic process of characterisation is explained (Kessel, 1995, min.10:10).

 When reproducing an image, a caption should be placed immediately below the image with the appropriate citation:

Thoughts of a baby lying in a child care centre (Leunig, 1995, p. 24).