Cite and Credit Images

Abstract

You've found that great image! Now what? You’ll need to cite or credit the image when you use it, and this chapter will help you do it right. Citing images is a fundamental part of using images in academic work, but it remains a source of confusion and anxiety for students, faculty, and many of us working with them. Style guides do not always provide complete or extensive discussion or examples of image citations, and citation generation and management tools are geared more for text materials. So you’re often left to piece together a best-guess approach. The broad range of contexts in which students use images also presents challenges for citing and crediting images appropriately. Of course images need to be cited in research papers, but what about posters or creative work? What is the best way to credit an image online? In this chapter, we explore these questions and more, and we offer examples and activities for modeling and practicing image citations. You will deepen your understanding of why we cite images, build confidence for citing and crediting images in a variety of contexts, and open discussion about how image citation can advance creative work and engagement with visual materials.