Citing and Image Credits

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Citation

It is important to cite your references when creating an infographic. Although the APA 7th Edition manual does not provide guidelines for citing within an infographic, you can use the same approach for citations as you would when writing an essay.

For more citation resources, visit the Humber Libraries APA & MLA page.

When you use information or data from your research in a sentence or in a graph/chart within your infographic, add the author last name(s) and the year of publication at the end of the relevant sentence.

Screenshot of an infographic, containing an icon of a graph accompanied by the following text: "Infographic assignments provide an experiential learning activity that combines scientific research and health communication strategies, providing a benefit to the wider community (Cunningham, Riley, Puscarz, & Frazzo, 2020)."

At the bottom of your infographic, add a new page and give it the heading, "References." Alternatively if you are adapting a Piktochart template, rename the final block at the end of your infographic, "References."

Enter your reference in APA format, as you would with a research paper. However, unlike the reference page on research paper, you can omit the hanging indent.

For example:

Cunningham, A., Riley, A. H., Puskarz, K., & Frasso, R. (2020). Experiential Learning: Moving From Data Collection to Health Promotion in One Term. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 6(3), 162–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379919885964


Image Credits

You do not need to include APA citations for decorative images which aren't referred to in the text, graphs, or charts of your infographic. For this type of decorative image (e.g. an icon), you only need to include an image credit.

At the bottom of your infographic, next to your references add a new page and give it a heading such as, "Image Credits." Alternatively, clone your "References" block and relabel the text.

Add an attribution that will direct the viewer to your image source and give credit to the author. For example: "3D Printer by Ewan Gibson, library.humber.ca/idealab."

For decorative images found within Piktochart's icon and photo libraries, you can add the line "all other images from Piktochart."

Authorship

It is important to include your name and details within an infographic to indicate authorship. For published infographics, we recommend including contact details. For class assignments, we recommend using your name and course code.