Since this is for an academic course, you must list the images and sources using the format most common in Communications Studies ... APA format.

Go to the APA format guidelines page where you can see examples for each type of citation, and more information about how to cite online documents and pages.

As you create your blog or website content, you should...

Collect required information

... about all images and other online information

• Name or username of author or photographer or editor.  Last name first, then initial, OR as published.  If it is apparently authored by an organization (such as the University of Calgary), such as use the organization name instead of author.

• Date created or updated, if known.  (year, month, date).  Sometimes you find the date at the top of a blog post, or a date "updated on" at the foot of a webpage. 

• Title of item.  Sometimes the title is at the top of your browser window.  If the title is unknown, make up a descriptive title and put it in editorial square brackets [like this] to show that it is your insertion, not the original title.  For example: [Man smoking]. (2009). ...

• Type of item.  If it is an image, state in square brackets [image].  It is often unclear from a title what kind of source/genre/file the item is, and this will help the reader assess or locate the source.  

• Title of section within a large website.  Often websites are authored by departments (i.e. Faculty of Communication and Culture) or units within a large company, or online magazines have sections like Lifestyle or World.This also helps a person assess or relocate if the URL is broken.

• Title of whole site.  For example, University of Calgary.  This goes within your retrieval statement below

• Date retrieved.  After the above information comes the retrieval statement saying when it was discovered on the internet at the address: "Retrieved July 13, 2009 ..."  This is important to know because people move or delete internet content and it may not be there by the time your user goes there.
  

• URL if public.  Only if the document is publicly available on the web without login, include the URL.  "Retrieved July 13, 2009 from the University of Calgary website at http://library.ucalgary.ca/ "

• Copyright information: Creative Commons license or GNU license to use or modify the image or media.

• If there is no permission statement or license accompanying the image, you can't use it without an email from the author/owner giving you permission to republish it on your site/blog. 

• You will need this information to cite the image/media properly in the caption, and to provide copyright information about images/media you have created. 

Cite items properly

• All textual information should be cited by Author/organization, Year, and if it is a specific quotation or paraphrase, with page # or section heading,  thus:  (Smith, 2009, p.2)  or (Gene & Black, 2007, "Organizations").  Viewers will then be able to check your reference list under "S" or "G" for the full information. 
  

• If you are just referring to the whole document/source, you don't need page # or section heading.  If it is a website that is continually updated you don't even need a year.  I.e. The Listmonger, a public website by the Greatest Group, offers ... Viewers would find more information in your reference list under "G."
  

Cite images properly using captions

• Create a caption under the image with brief information about the image source, such as

• Author, year, like this: T. Smith, 2009.  I would then know to look in the reference list under "Smith"

• If no author, use the short title and year, like this: HelpersHelpingOhio, 2007 or [Man Smoking] 2009.  I would look in your reference list under "H" or "M" to find the full information.  If no year, say (n.d.)

• Link the image itself, or a word in the caption under the image, to the URL where the image was borrowed, if it was borrowed. 
  
• If a person clicks on the image or link, they should be taken to the source, not to the place where the image is stored on your blog or website. 
  

• Wherever you cannot use a caption right under the image, cite it in a nearby link, such as a page (not post), called Header Image, or refer to images by number (1), (2), etc. and cite them at the bottom of the page.

• If you own the image/media, you may link to your chosen Creative Commons license, or place the CC logo nearby.
  

Reference List locations

• You may cite all borrowed sources at the foot of your article using complete reference list information in APA style. 
  
  PRO:  This is the best idea for your individual blogs and websites because then the references are kept with the article to which they belong, and they are not separated & misplaced when you add the articles to your Team Website.
  
  CONS: If there are a lot of references it lengthens your page.  It makes the page look very academic, since a public audience will not likely want or need all this information.

• OR a separate reference list page for each article.  You may create a "reference list" link at the bottom of your article that takes the viewer there.  That page should have a subtitle that names the page and URL where the reference list items were used.
  
  PRO: This keeps reference lists organized and authors can take care of updating their reference list page when they update sources in their article. 
  
  CON: it proliferates pages unnecessarily.

• OR a SINGLE reference page for your whole blog or site. You may create a "reference list" link at the bottom of each article that takes viewers to the proper section of this reference list.  References should be organized under headings that identify the page and URL where the reference list items were used, and within these sections the items should be in alphabetical order by the first word/name. 
  
  PRO:  This consolidates all on one page. 
  
  CON:  the author/editor will have to make sure the page is well organized and formatted consistently.  Someone may forget to update it when images/sources are added or removed from the article. 
  
  CON:  It takes extra work to embed "anchor-links" such as this one (Go to Submission instructions for the individual blog) to take the viewer directly to the heading, if possible, so that they don't have to scroll and hunt through the page.

URLs and page archives

• Use the exact URL to your page or item, not just the general website that houses it.
• It can be found by right clicking on the link to the page/itme (on a PC) and selecting "Copy Link Location"
  OR by copying the full address in the address bar at the top of your browser. 
  

Sample: