Searching for Creative Commons Images for Research Projects
Citing Images, Graphs, Tables, Videos and more
Provide a figure number for the image in your paper or presentation.
Example: Fig. 1.
Include a title or description of the image.
Example: Fig. 1. Pedestrians walking by street art graffiti of the word love from: "Pedestrian Street Art Protest."
Identify where you got the image from with a full citation.
Include a full Works Cited entry for the source of the image in the image caption. MLA does not require an additional entry in the Works Cited for your presentation.
Example: Fig. 1. Pedestrians walking by street art graffiti of the word love from: "Pedestrian Street Art Protest," 26 Dec. 2016, pxhere.com/en/photo/10722. Accessed 29 Oct. 2018.
If the image is available online, include a direct URL to the web page where the image can be found, instead of a page number.
Close with copyright or Creative Commons license status.
If you have reproduced the image in your presentation slides, copyright or license details are required in the caption. Typically this information will be listed directly below the image. If you cannot find copyright or license details for the image, do not reproduce the image in your presentation. Place a period at the end of the copyright or license information.
Example: Fig. 1. Pedestrians walking by street art graffiti of the word love from: "Pedestrian Street Art Protest," 26 Dec. 2016, pxhere.com/en/photo/10722. Accessed 29 Oct. 2018. Creative Commons CC0.
Using the Explore tool in Google Docs and Slides makes it easier to cite the source of the images in your presentation.
Determine the type of work to cite (e.g., article, image, sound recording) and cite appropriately. End the entry with the name of the digital format (e.g., PDF, JPEG file, Microsoft Word file, MP3). If the work does not follow traditional parameters for citation, give the author’s name, the name of the work, the date of creation, and the location.
Examples
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Moonlight Sonata. Crownstar, 2006.
Smith, George. “Pax Americana: Strife in a Time of Peace.” 2005. Microsoft Word file.
Council of Writing Program Administrators, National Council of Teachers of English, and National Writing Project. Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing. CWPA, NCTE, and NWP, 2011, wpacouncil.org/files/framework-for-success-postsecondary-writing.pdf.
Bentley, Phyllis. “Yorkshire and the Novelist.” The Kenyon Review, vol. 30, no. 4, 1968, pp. 509-22. JSTOR, www.jstor.org.iii/stable/4334841.
Citing an online video MLA Style:
"Title of video." YouTube, uploaded by Screen Name, day month year, www.youtube.com/xxxxx.
If the author of the video is not the same as the person who uploaded the video, your citation would be formatted as follows:
Author last name, First Name. "Title of video." YouTube, uploaded by Screen Name, day month year, www.youtube.com/xxxxx.
Example of citation with different author and uploader:
Beyoncé . "Sorry." YouTube, uploaded by BeyFan123, 17 December 2016, www.youtube.com/xxxx.
Example of citation with no known author or same author and uploader:
"Day in the Life." YouTube, uploaded by janedoe, 19 December 2016, www.youtube.com/xxxx.
Your in-text citation will depend on whether you have the author's last name. Basically, you will want to cite in-text whatever appears first in the citation on your Works Cited page. If you are referencing a specific part of the video, MLA format also requires that you specify the time in the video when that part begins.
In-text citation with author: (Last name, 00:01:15 - 00:02:00).
In-text citation with no author or same author and uploader: ("Title of video," 00:01:15 - 00:02:00).
Here's an example of a Berkeley College YouTube video cited in APA and MLA formats
https://chat.library.berkeleycollege.edu/faq/166951