Great Fashion Designers: Citing Images

Images or illustrations can enhance your papers and presentations. Like written sources, images also need to be properly cited. Here are examples of the information needed for the citation using MLA and APA styles.

Citing in MLA style:

Library database

     Rousseau, Henri. The Ship in the Storm. 1896. Painting.  Musée de

         l'Orangerie, Paris. Grove Art Online. Web. 22 Nov.2006.

Free Web

     Rousseau, Henri. The Ship in the Storm. 1896. Painting. Musée de

         l'Orangerie, Paris. Web. 8 Aug. 2006.

Image reproduced in a printed source

    Rousseau, Henri. The Ship in the Storm. 1896. Painting. Musée

        de l'Orangerie, Paris. Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris. By      

        Claire Fresches, et al. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2006.

        232. Print.

Citing in APA style:

Rousseau, H. (1896). The Ship in the Storm [Painting]. Retrieved from

    Oxford Art Online database.

Rousseau, H. (1896). The Ship in the Storm [Painting]. Henri Rousseau:

    Jungles in Paris. By Claire Fresches et al. Washington, DC: National

    Gallery of Art. 232.

The plate/image number (or, if this number is not available, the page number on which the image is printed) should follow the name of the publisher as shown.