Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgment

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How do I cite graphical materials?

Usually you place the full citation directly beneath the reproduced graphical material, starting with its left-hand margin. Begin the citation with "Source," followed by a colon, then complete the citation in your chosen style (here we employ the APA style).

Graphical materials image

Source: Lynch, P. J., & Horton, S. (1999). Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Reproduced by permission of Yale University Press.)

If you reproduce the essential character of a graphic, yet change its style and content, you must also cite the original, beginning your citation with words like "From," "Modified from," "Adapted from," or "After."
Note that for unpublished student essays, you do not need to secure permission from the copyright holder to reproduce graphical images, and hence do not need to include the parenthetical permission phrase we have added to the example above. For this published work, however, we had to secure the publishers' permissions to reproduce the graphic.

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