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Food and Drink Science and Technology

Where to include

Every time you use an image, photograph, graph, map or illustration in your writing, it may be referred to up to three times:

1. Figures and Captions: In a caption under the image.
2. In-text citation: In your writing with an in-text citation.
3. Reference List or List of Illustrations: If you have only used a few images, include them in same Reference List as your books, articles, etc. If you have a large number of images in your dissertation or thesis, you should reference them in a separate List of Illustrations or List of Figures.

List of figures or Illustrations

  • Check with your tutor and assignment brief as to what is required.
  • Either at the start of an essay or report or at the end, before the List of References.
  • Unlike other references, the images/illustrations not listed alphabetically, but in the order they appear in the work.
  • If you refer to an image from a printed source (e.g. book), you must reference the source.
  • Check with your tutor for specific criteria, e.g. a list of images or illustrations as an appendix.
  • It is not necessary to provide a reference for an image you have created yourself.
Subjects: NCFM