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Chicago Citation Style: Images and Art

This guide will help you cite sources using the Chicago Citation Style 16th edition.

Situations This Section Covers

American press photographer, 1938 - Britannica ImageQuestThis section covers the following examples:

Image from an Electronic Source
Published Photograph

For more examples and information, consult The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) located at the librarian's desk. 

Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest, "United States: 1938.A press photographer aims his flash camera.," accessed 28 Feb 2016, http://quest.eb.com/search/183_365575/1/183_365575/cite

About Citing Images and Works of Art

This guide is intended to cover only the Notes and Bibliography system for citing images and works of art.

For each type of source in this guide, both the general form and a specific example will be provided.

The following format will be used:

Full Note - use the first time that you cite a source.
Concise Note - use after the first time you cite a source.
Bibliography - use when you are compiling the Bibliography that appears at the end of your paper.

Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). 

Numbers in parentheses refer to specific sections and pages in the manual.

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