Library Guides: APA (7th Edition) Referencing Guide: Using Tables in Assignments &amp; Class Presentations

For assignments and PowerPoints only

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

Using tables from another source in assignments & class presentations

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:

Author or Creator
Date (normally the date the book/journal/webpage was published)
Title of the work
Material type in square brackets [Table].
Publisher
URL

Tables from the web (assignments and PowerPoints)

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...

Table from a journal article (assignments and PowerPoints)

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).

Table from an eBook (assignments and PowerPoints)

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).
Referring to the table in your text	Thomas et al. (2019) showed ... (see Table 3).

Table from the ABS (assignments and PowerPoints)

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.