Visual Literacy and Plagiarism

Visual Illustrative Material

Images/photographs, maps, graphs, or charts should be cited in a format below and labeled as a figure when used in an assignment.

See Figure Example for formatting.

Basic Image Format:

Citation:

Artist's Last Name, First. "Title of digital image."  Date, Website, Publisher or Sponsoring Organization, URL (no https://).

Example:

Warner, Mike. "Monet's Garden." 6 Oct. 2017, Flickr, flic.kr/p/ZsF6q1.

Image Without Author:

Citation:

“Title of the digital image.” Date, Website, Publisher, URL (no https://).

Example:

"Orange grove - Clewiston, Florida." 1920, Florida Memory,  www.floridamemory.com/items/show/138653

Image With No Author, Title, or Date

Citation:

Image description. Title of the website, URL (no https://).

Example:

Photograph of child with soapy hands. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cdc.gov/clean-hands/about/index.html

Note: You still need to cite the image even if you are missing much of the information. Please try to find images that do provide this information. 

Google Images:

Go to the original location (website) of the image and cite in one of the above formats.

This guide was adapted from SCF.

Figure Format

Below is an example on formatting images and/ or figures:

Fig. 1. Flowers in Monet's Garden (Warner).

Note: If you just include a brief caption, then the reference entry is needed on the works cited page.

OR

Fig. 1. Warner, Mike. "Monet's Garden." 6 Oct. 2017, Flickr, flic.kr/p/ZsF6q1.

Note: If you include the full citation in the caption of the photo AND the image is not cited in-text, no reference entry is needed on the works cited page.

Note: Figures must be numbered in succession throughout the assignment.