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Referencing

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Image from a website or database

Bibliography

Artist or creator Last Name, First Name. Title of Work. Date. Medium. Dimensions (if applicable). Museum Name, Museum Location (if applicable). Accessed Month Day, Year, https://xxxxxxxxxxx.
Gogh, Vincent van. Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas. 73.7 x 92.1 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Accessed August 28, 2018, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889/.

In-text

...as depicted in Starry Night.1

First footnote

1 Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm., Museum of Modern Art, New York, accessed August 28, 2018, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889/.

Subsequent footnotes

2 Gogh van, Starry Night.

Notes

  • The title of the image is in Italics
  • Words in the titles and subtitles are capitalized, except articles and prepositions
  • If an artwork does not have an exact date, use an approximate date preceded by ca. (short for circa) e.g. ca. 1450
  • if image found in a database, e.g. ArtSTOR, use the url of the image supplied in the database (often under "cite this item" menu)

Image from a book or journal article

Bibliography

Use a bibliography entry for a book or journal article

Footnote

Artwork

A group of people gathered around a baby

1. Piero Della Francesca, The Nativity, ca. 1415-1492, National gallery, London, in Masterpieces of Biblical Art (Avenel Books, 1973), 54.

Figure or map

Ancient map of Greece

Reference as per book. After the page number, note any figure number and caption.

1 Robin Osborne, Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC, 2nd ed. (Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009). 36. Figure 4. Sites occupied in Late Helladic IIIA2 and IIIB. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/acu/reader.action?docID=425565&ppg=58.

Subsequent footnotes

3 Osborne, Greece in the Making.

Notes

  • The title of the work is in italics
  • If the source is online, the url must be included