How do I cite photos on a website I am creating? I found these on google images and possibly a book.
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APA assumes for citing photographs that you are using copyrighted images, with permission, that are being submitted to a journal. This is obviously a little different than what you are doing.
Here is how I answered an earlier citing photos question -
"Photographs are not cited in the "works cited" [bibliography] of a paper.
All information regarding the photograph is included in the caption accompanying the photograph.
Creating a caption is a bit nit-picky, and not easy to sum up in source such as AskUs. Please see pp. 158-167 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition."
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All true. So, you don't need to worry about works cited. A caption looks a bit like this ...
No. of figure. Description. Adapted from "[name of article]," by [author], [year], [title of journal, volume, p.]. Copyright statement.
We'll have to be creative. Let's try ...
Figure VII. Image of the title page of The Selfish Giant. Adapted from "Books," by T. White, 2012, The Recknynge Press. Retrieved from http://recknyngepress.weebly.com/books.html Copyright 2012 by T. White.
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Again, APA offers us no example for how this is done, so we are adapting in the spirit of the law.
You said you found the image on Google Images. I would follow the image back to the original source that Google pulled it from (you should be able to do that by clicking on the image).
The copyright statement is tricky, since copyright is very loose on the web. Technically we should assume everything is copyrighted. So, you could ...
a). query the website for permission. Even though it might well be possible that the website doesn't own the image and can't give you permission.
b). Ignore the copyright statement. Professionally I can't tell you to do this. However, if this is just for a class assignment and not something that has commercial use, I think you could. My worry is that if you try to get permission, you will just keep running into dead ends (though this is not an excuse with the law).
c). try to find a like image that is stated to by copyright free.
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Again, APA doesn't give us guidance on this. Your goal is clarity in citing the photo & giving credit where it is due. I am offering my interpretation of how to do this. You could check with your professor, too.
Good luck.