APA 6th - images, figures or tables

Works of original art may be held in collections whereby the owner does not wish to be known. If this is the case, use ‘Private Collection’ instead of giving details of the institution/collection where the work is held.

Format

Author/artist if known. (Year of work). Title of work [Medium]. Institution/collection where the work is held if known: Location of Work if Known.

Example

Lorrain, C. (1648). Pastoral Caprice with the Arch of Constantine [Painting]. Collection of the Duke of Westminster: London.

Format

Author of Publication. (Year of publication). Title of work [Medium]. In Title of publication. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example

Gibbons, J. (2007). My bed [Photograph]. In Contemporary art and memory : Images of recollection and remembrance. London: I.B. Taurus.

Format

Author/artist if known. (Year of work). Title of work [Medium]. Retrieved from URL

Example

International Phonetic Association. (2005). Other symbols [Online image]. Retrieved from https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-other-symbols

Format

Example

• A good example of misidentification is Claude Lorrain's Pastoral Caprice which was thought to be a work by the Scottish painter, John Runciman (see Figure 1).
  
  
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  Figure 1. Claude Lorrain, (1648), Pastoral Caprice with the Arch of Constantine. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Duke of Westminster, London.

If the publication was compiled by an editor, use Ed. Editor's Name instead of Author.

Format

Example

• Tracey Emin's portfolio includes her controversial Tate Gallery installation, My Bed (Figure 2).
  
  
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  Figure 2. Tracey Emin's 1999 installation, "My Bed", at the Tate Gallery in London. Reprinted from Contemporary Art and Memory : Images of Recollection and Rememberance (p. 23), by Joan Gibbons 2007, London: I.B. Taurus. Copyright 2007 by I.B. Taurus. Reprinted with permission.
  
  
• Example 1 illustrates the second movement of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece. Here he builds tension through his skillful use of tempo.
  
  
  Excerpt from a musical score
  Example 1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 22, 1874. Reprinted from Kalmus Vocal Scores by Edwin F. Kalmus, 1969, New York: Belwin, Copyright 1969 by Kalmus Orchestra Library.

If the publication date is not known, just include the retrieval date.

Format

Example

• The letters forming the International Phonetic Alphabet are used to recreate each possible sound in used human speech (see Figure 3).
  
  
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  Figure 3. A subset of symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Retrieved from Other Symbols, by International Phonetic Association, 2005, Retrieved 2015, Oct. 17, from https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-other-symbols. Copyright 2005 by International Phonetic Association. Reprinted with permission.

Add a numbered heading, beginning with the word Table, followed by two new lines and an italicised descriptive legend. The caption begins with the word ‘Note’ in italics. If you created the table from data that was sourced elsewhere, use ‘Adapted from’. Number tables separately from figures in the order that they are mentioned in your text.

Format

Example

• Table 1 tells us that participants classified as Non-Hispanic White make up the highest recorded demographic for the 2011 - 2012 survey.
  
  Table 1
  
  Results from the National Health and Nutrition Survey
  
  Table data
  Note. Retrieved from 2011 - 2012 Data Documentation, Codebook, and Frequencies, by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015, Retrieved Jan., 2015, Oct. 2, from http://wwwn.cdc.gov/Nchs/Nhanes/2011-2012/DEMO_G.htm.
  
  

• The benefits of using dynamic views in database management can be clearly illustrated in Table 2.
  
  Table 2
  
  Pros and Cons of Using Dynamic Views
  Table data
  Note. Reprinted from Modern Database Management, 6th ed. (p. 268, table 7-2), by Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Mary B. Prescott, and Fred R. McFadden, 2002, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Copyright 2002 by Pearson Education Inc. Reprinted with permission.

If you are only referring to an image or artwork in your text, not reproducing it, cite it in short form and include the full citation in the reference list.

Example

• Tracey Emin is no stranger to controversy and her 1999 Tate Gallery installation, "My Bed", resulted in exposing aspects of her private life (Gibbons, 2007, p. 23-24).

Well known works do not need citing.

• ... and the photograph was staged in a similar format to da Vinci's "The Last Supper".