Images: finding, using and referencing

All the examples and references in this Images guide are the University of Lincoln Harvard style.

For the Harvard guide and other styles see the Referencing and plagiarism guide.

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

In-text citation

(Rodchenko, 1936, 107)

Reference list or bibliography entry

Rodchenko, A. (1936) Ready for work and defence. In: W.A. Ewing (ed.) (2000) The century of the body: 100 photoworks 1900-2000. London: Thames & Hudson, 107.

In-text citation

(Banksy, 2011)

Reference list or bibliography entry

Banksy (2011) Shop until you drop. Available from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shop_Until_You_Drop_by_Banksy.JPG [accessed 2 November 2018]

Monet, C. (1886) Flood waters. London: The National Gallery. Available from http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-monet-flood-waters [accessed 30 June 2015]

• 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.

In the text: (see fig. 1.) (Banksy, 2011) or Banksy (2011)

In the List of Illustrations:

Figure 1. Banksy (2011) Shop until you drop. [Graffitti Art] Available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shop_Until_You_Drop_by_Banksy.JPG [accessed 2 November 2018]

• Bibliographic management tool - automatically generates citations and bibliographies for your assignments
• Accessible via the Library website
• You will need to register the first time you use it
• Export book references from the Library website
• Export journal article references from Library databases
• Set up Google Scholar to export references
• https://guides.library.lincoln.ac.uk/find/reference-management