Whether you are a student or a teacher, you should start your image search at one of the following sites which offers public domain images that do not require citation. Each of these sites includes high-resolution images that can be freely downloaded and used for education purposes. No watermark will appear on an image.
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Pexels: Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.
Photos For Class: Access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Note that not all images are public domain, however, Photos For Class includes citation information with each downloaded image.
Pics4Learning: Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.
Pixabay: Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images, illustrations, videos and music. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Unsplash: Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service. Unsplash is also integrated with Google making it easy to include their images in your presentations. No attribution is required but it is appreciated.
When you refer to a photographic reproduction of an artwork, the citation is made up of two parts:
Artist's Last Name, First Name. Title of Work: Subtitle if Any. Year, Location of Work. Book Title, by Author's Last Name, First Name, Publisher Name often shortened, Year of publication, p. number.
| Works Cited List Example |
Da Vinci, Leonardo. Last Supper. 1498, Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan. Great Paintings of the Western World, by Gallup, Alison, et al., Barnes & Noble, 1998, p. 223. |
| In-Text Citation Example |
(Author's Last Name Page Number) Example: (Da Vinci 223) |
If you place the artwork in your paper, you must label the figure. The caption should be the Works Cited list citation for the source the figure was found in. For example, if it was found in a book, cite the book.
Label your figures starting at 1.
Information about the figure (the caption) is placed directly below the image in your assignment.
Example:
Fig. 1. Da Vinci, Leonardo. Last Supper. 1498, Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan. Great Paintings of the Western World, by Gallup, Alison, et al., Barnes & Noble, 1998, p. 223.
An inserted photo, image, graph or chart is called a figure. Each figure must have a caption directly below the photo/image/graph/chart in your assignment. The caption follows this format:
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Fig. X. Description of the figure from: Citation cue for source so your reader can find it in your
Works Cited (e.g. a website, a magazine article) or the complete citation if you only refer to the image one time. |
Note: If you have more than one figure in your assignment, label your figures starting at 1.
If you do not refer to it anywhere else in your assignment, you do not have to include the citation for this source in a Works Cited list.
Example:
Fig. 1. Man exercising from: Green, Annie. "Yoga: Stretching Out." Sports Digest, 8 May 2006, p. 22.
Example:
Fig. 2. Annakiki skirt from: Cheung, Pauline. "Short Skirt S/S/ 15 China Womenswear Commercial Update." WGSN.
If you insert a table from another source into your assignment, you must create a caption for it directly below the table. Above the table, add a label (Table X) and below this add a description of what information is contained in the table.
The caption follows this format:
| Source: Citation for source table was found in (e.g. a website, a journal article). |
Note: If you have more than one table in your assignment, label your tables starting at 1.
If you do not refer to the table anywhere else in your assignment, you do not need to include the citation for this source in the Works Cited list.
Example:
Table 1
Variables in determining victims and aggressors
Source: Mohr, Andrea. "Family Variables Associated With Peer Victimization." Swiss Journal of Psychology, vol. 65, no. 2, 2006, pp. 107-116, Psychology Collection, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185.65.2.107.
Note: If you include a table or graph that you created yourself from data you collected yourself, you must still label and name the chart or graph. You do not, however, have to include the source information below.
When you refer to a photographic reproduction of an artwork, the citation is made up of two parts:
If you refer to the information from the artwork but do not reproduce it in your paper, create a citation both in-text and on your Works Cited list.
Artist's Last Name, First Name. Title of Work: Subtitle if Any. Year, Location of Work. "Title of Webapge," by Author's First Name Last Name. Title of Website, Publisher or Sponsoring Organization, Date of publication or last modified date, URL. Accessed Day Month Year site was visited.
Note: Date of access is optional in MLA 9th edition but it is an IB requirement so we at ISU require its inclusion.
| Works Cited List Example |
Da Vinci, Leonardo. Last Supper. 1498, Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan. "The Last Supper," by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, Khan Academy, 2015, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/renaissance-art-europe-ap/a/leonardo-last-supper. Accessed 14 July 2018. |
| In-Text Citation Example |
(Author's Last Name) Example: (Da Vinci) |
If you place the artwork in your paper, you must label the figure. The caption should be the Works Cited list citation for the source the figure was found in. For example, if it was found on a website, cite the website.
Label your figures starting at 1.
Information about the figure (the caption) is placed directly below the image in your assignment.
Example:
Fig. 1. Da Vinci, Leonardo. Last Supper. 1498, Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan. "The Last Supper," by Harris, Beth and Steven Zucker, Khan Academy, 2015, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/renaissance-art-europe-ap/a/leonardo-last-supper. Accessed 14 July 2018.