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Creative Arts Guide: Referencing images

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Acknowledgement

This guide is created by Bronwen Forster, JCU Library, in collaboration with Robyn Glade-Wright, CASE.

References:

Barnet, S. 2011 A short guide to writing about art. 10th Edn Pearson, Boston.

Snooks & Co (Rev). 2002, Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edn. John Wiley & Sons: Milton, Qld.

Style guide for adding illustrations to your assignments

Your illustration should:

  • Be close to where it is referred to in the text.
  • Be referred to in the text by the illustration figure number.
  • Have a caption beginning with “Figure #.”
  • Caption should be centred under the illustration and font size should be 2 points smaller than the font size of your essay.
  • Illustration should have at least 1 line space separating it from the text, both above the illustration and below the caption.
  • Caption should be separated from the illustration by at least half a line space.

Your essay should include:

  • At least one in text reference to each illustration and be referred to by the illustration figure number.
  • A list of figures after your reference list.
  • List of figures in numerical order.

In text references

Examples

The water colour technique illustrated in Figure 1 shows …

In Portrait of a Goddess, (Figure 1) Luccio has…

Captions  

Format

Figure number. Artist, Year created, Title of Work, type of media, size in cm

Examples

Figure1. Marco Luccio, 2010, Portrait of a Goddess, water colour and ink on plan print, 98 x 70 cm

Figure 2. Joel-Peter Witkin, 1986, Gambler, Silver gelatine print, size not specified.

Figure 3. Luis Buñuel, 1929, Un Chien Andalou, (Movie still) Black and white film, 17minutes.

List of figures 

Format

Figure number. Artist, Year created,Title of Work, type of media. Where artwork was exhibited. Where you found the illustration, viewed date, <web address of page>

Figure number. Artist, Year created, Title of Work, type of media, in A. Author, year book published, Title of book, Publisher: Place of publication, p. number.

Examples

Figure1. Marco Luccio, 2010, Portrait of a Goddess, water colour and ink on plan print, Steps Gallery, Melbourne, viewed 20 July 2014 <http://www.marcoluccio.com/gallery/new-york-found.php>

Figure 2. Joel-Peter Witkin, 1986, Gambler, Silver gelatine print, size not specified, in E. Parry, 2001, Joel-Peter Witkin, Phaidon Press: London, p. 51.

Figure 3. Luis Buñuel, 1929, Un Chien Andalou, (Movie still) Black and white film, 17minutes, viewed 20 July 2014, <http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Ca-Chr/Un-Chien-Andalou.html>

 

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