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MLA Style 9th Edition

Images, Figures, and Tables

Works Cited

Visual Illustrative Material

Images/photographs, maps, graphs, or charts should be cited in a format below and labeled as a figure when used in an assignment.

See Figure Example for formatting.

Basic Image Format

Artist's Last Name, First. "Title of digital image."  Date, Website, Publisher or Sponsoring Organization, URL (no https://).

Example

Warner, Mike. "Monet's Garden." 6 Oct. 2017, Flickr, flic.kr/p/ZsF6q1.

Image Without Author

“Title of the digital image.” Date, Website, Publisher, URL (no https://).

Example

"Orange grove - Clewiston, Florida." 1920, Florida Memory,  www.floridamemory.com/items/show/138653

Image With No Author, Title, or Date

[Image description]. Title of the website, URL (no https://).

Example

[Photograph of person washing hands]. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/

Note: You still need to cite the image even if you are missing much of the information. Please try to find images that do provide this information. 

Google Images

Go to the original location (website) of the image and cite in one of the above formats.


In-Text

Basic Image Format

(Fig. #) or (Last Name)

Example

(Fig. 1) or (Warner)

Image Without Author

(Fig. #) or ("Title of Image")

Example

(Fig. 2) or ("Orange grove - Clewiston, Florida.")

Image With No Author, Title, or Date

(Fig. #)

Example

(Fig. 3)

When you use a graph or another visual representation that is not a photograph or an image, it must be cited as Figure. The figures must be numbered in succession throughout the paper or slideshow, and must be cited individually under the figure itself. In addition, all figure citations are placed directly below the image starting with a brief description. 

Basic Format

Fig. X. Brief image description, "Title of Source," Author's Last Name,
          First. Publisher, Date.

Figure From a Website

Fig. X. Brief image description, "Title of Source," Author's Last Name,
          First. Website, Date, URL (no https://).

Figure Format

Below is an example on formatting images and/ or figures:

image for example citation

Fig. 1. Flowers in Monet's Garden (Warner).

Note: If you just include a brief caption, then the reference entry is needed on the works cited page.

OR

Fig. 1. Warner, Mike. "Monet's Garden." 6 Oct. 2017, Flickr, flic.kr/p/ZsF6q1.

Note: If you include the full citation in the caption of the photo AND the image is not cited in-text, no reference entry is needed on the works cited page.

Note: Figures must be numbered in succession throughout the assignment.

Table Format

At the top of the table: Tables inserted into an assignment should have a label (Table X) and a brief description of the table if it was not included in the table.

At the bottom of the table: Directly below your table should include the caption, which includes the citation of the source (example: table from website, journal article, etc).

Note: If the table is not cited in-text, there is no need for a reference entry on the works cited page. If the table is cited in the assignment, an in-text citation (Table 1) is needed as well as the reference entry on the works cited page.

Note: Tables must be numbered in succession throughout the assignment.

 

Example

Table 1

image for example citation

Source: "Tuition costs of colleges and universities." Fast Facts, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2019, nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76