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Food & Drink Operations Management

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