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APA Style 7th edition

Visual Works including diagram, photograph, cartoon, and artwork in a museum

Reference components include: author of visual work itself, year of source, title followed in square brackets by type of medium, site name, and URL (if retrieved online).

Please also read Notes in the next box.

All of the examples below include the url to the visual work itself, not to the webpage which has the image of the visual work.


Diagram

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. (2013, July 2). intercellular lipid pathway [Diagram].Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/skin/images/skin6.jpg

How to cite this work in-text:
Parenthetical: (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2013)
Narrative: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2013)
 

Photograph. Work does not have a name/title. This example has publication date.

Taylor, B. (2019). [Untitled photograph of child with therapy dog]. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. https://www.stjude.org/content/sites/www/en_US/home/inspire/series/st-jude-place/therapy-dogs-puggle-huckleberry/jcr:content/par-2/cnt_image.img.1200.high.jpg/1575737000391.jpg

How to cite this work in-text:
Parenthetical: (Taylor, 2019)
Narrative: Taylor (2019)

 

Cartoon

Guy & Rod. (2013). Ugh, we’ve got termites, destructive little pests [Cartoon]. Cartoonstock. https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoonview.asp?catref=gra100324

How to cite this work in-text:
Parenthetical: (Guy & Rod, 2013)
Narrative: Guy and Rod (2013)

 

Artwork in a museum or on a museum website.

Mitchell, M. (2005). Very much encumbered [Sculpture]. DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, United States. https://www.flickr.com/photos/devosartmuseum/14329789115/in/album-72157644136639728/  

How to cite this work in-text:
Parenthetical: (Mitchell, 2005)
Narrative: Mitchell (2005)

Notes to citing Visual Works

If you are citing a visual work published in a journal/magazine article, book, or report, reference the source wherein that visual work appears, and use at greater source and the examples on this guide, not this subsection of Visual Works. 

For example, if you are using a figure/graph published in a journal article, reference the journal article. When providing a note and copyright attribution underneath the figure, use reference information from the source and also include an entry in References list. 

When citing a work accessed online, please remember to apply APA 7th ed. rule regarding date of publication: it must be for the content. That is, do not use year which appears in the webpage footer.

Reference components include: author of visual work itself, year of source, title followed in square brackets by type of medium, site name, and URL (if retrieved online).

All of the examples above include the url to the visual work itself, not to the webpage which has the image of the visual work.

If you plan on directly quoting content from the webpage where the visual work appears, then look at & use the webpage examples on this guide, not the examples below.

If it will make it easier to find the visual work, you may provide the url of the work itself (jpg, etc.) instead of the webpage url. This is especially helpful if there are many visual items which appear on a webpage.

If the visual work does not have a title, provide description including type of medium (see example below).

Provide: artist as author, year(s) of creation (as attributed by the museum/gallery), title in italics followed by type of medium in square brackets, name of museum/gallery, city, state / province (if applicable), and country. If image of visual work is available online, then include URL to that image.

Additional examples are in the Manual, pp. 346-347.