Apa 7th Edition Referencing An Image

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Apa 7th edition referencing an image. The guidelines for referencing images in this section are special adaptations of the full requirements of the publication manual 7th ed for use by undergraduate students. In apa style a source is briefly cited within the text of a research paper using the authors surname family name and the date of publication. Image title format.

Apa style 7th edition. An apa image citation includes the creator s name the year the image title and format e g. Referencing images without displaying them in the text.

This is a guide to using the apa 7th referencing style from the american psychological association. 7th edition common reference examples guide this guide contains examples of common apa style references. Apa 7th edition referencing guide1.

Centre the image in the paper. For example this image of a cat comes from pixabay and has a license that says the image is free to reproduce with no attribution required. Remember that images found online are not fair game they belong to someone and all effort should be made to identify the creator or owner and cite the image correctly.

If the license associated with clip art or a stock image states no attribution required then do not provide an apa style reference in text citation or copyright attribution. Postgraduate students and anyone intending to publish their work should reference images to publication standard with proper. In the text refer to figures by their number i e figure 1 or figure 2.

For more information on references and reference examples see chapters 9 and 10 of the publication. Do not refer to figures as the figure below or the figure above place the figure close as possible to the part of text referencing it unless otherwise instructed by your professor. A guide to help users create citations using apa american psychological association style 7th edition.