The advice on this page has been simplified for use in PowerPoints and assignments that will not be made publically available.
If you are preparing a thesis, or a paper for publication, or your work is going to be made publically available in any way, you will need a full copyright acknowledgement in the Notes section of your table for any tables that have been copied or adapted from another source.
See the "Sample Factor Analysis Table" example on the APA's Sample Tables page for an example of how to lay this out.
NB. Information regarding the in-text citations given below the table has been updated and expanded February 2023
Note the following information relates to tables that you are copying or adapting from another source.
If you have created the table from scratch, using data you collected from various sources, please follow the format information from the APA about setting up a table.
If the table is for use only in an assignment or a PowerPoint presentation, follow the advice in this section.
Citing a source for a table
The in-text citation for the source of a table should be put underneath the table with the format - Note. Explanitary note (author, date). If you do not have an explanitory note, use Note. Sourced from Author (date). Include the page number if applicable, for example an image from a book or journal article.
If you have adapted the table from another source, add the word Adapted from in front of the word Source.
In text citations
If you are referring to the table in the text of your document, cite the Table not the reference, for example, (see Table 1).
Reference list
Reference the source where the table was obtained from - e.g. the book, website or journal article that the table came from.
If the author is the same as the name of the web page, omit the name of the web page.
Remember to follow the referencing format of the resource you are using (e.g. book, journal article etc.) or include as much information about the image as possible:
| Format |
Author, A. A. or Creator, A. A. (Date). Title of image [Online image]. Publisher. http://www.xxxxx |
| Examples |
Pew Research Center. (2019, June 12). Social media fact sheet. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media/ |
| Presenting the table in your assignment |
Table 1 Percentage of U.S. adults by social media site
Note. Sourced from Pew Research Center (2019). |
| Referring to the table in your text |
As Table 1 illustrates... |
| Format |
Author, A. A. (Date). Title of entry. Title of Journal, volume number(issue number), page numbers of the whole article. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/xxxx |
| Examples |
Du, J. T., & Haines, J. (2017). Indigenous Australians' information behaviour and internet use in everyday life: An exploratory study. Information Research, 22(1). http://informationr.net/ir/22-1/paper737.html Note this article has no page numbers. See What if there are no page numbers? for more information about citing sources without pages. |
| Presenting the table in your assignment |
Table 2 Information needs of indigenous people in everyday life
Note. The questionnaire revealed some of the community members' biggest concerns (Du & Haines, 2017, Results & discussion section, para 2). |
| Referring to the table in your text |
...a variety of infomration needs (see Table 2). |
| Format |
Author, A. A. (Date). Title book. Publisher. DOI or http://www.xxxxx (if applicable) |
| Examples |
Thomas, J., Barraket, J., Wilson, C. K., Rennie, E., Ewing, S., & MacDonald, T. (2019). Measuring Australia's digital divide: The Australian digital inclusion index 2019. RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology for Telstra. https://doi.org/10.25916/5d6478f373869 |
| Presenting the table in your assignment |
Table 3 Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) and sub-index score ranges: low, medium, high
Note. Sourced from Thomas et al. (2019, p. 9).
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| Referring to the table in your text |
Thomas et al. (2019) showed ... (see Table 3). |
| Format |
Corporate author. (Date). Title: Subtitle (No. xxxx). Retrieved from URL |
| Examples |
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2018). Household use of information technology, Australia, 2016-17 (No. 8146.0). https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8146.0 |
| Presenting the table in your assignment |
Table 4 Percentage of households with internet access, 2008-2009 to 2016-2017.
Note. Adapted from a table supplied by ABS (2018). |
| Referring to the table in your text |
... as can be seen in Table 4. |
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