LibGuides: Harvard Reference Style: Images/Figures/Tables

Images/Figures/Tables: Reference formats & examples

In this guide the word figure refers to all images including, photographs, paintings, drawings, charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, etc.

Any image used in your assignment/research requires a caption.

A caption should include:

The word Figure (with a capital letter and in italics)
A number (from 1, in numerical order)
A title for the figure or brief description of the work
An in text citation for the reference of the source (if not your own work), which includes the Author(s), date and page number for the source, e.g. (Brown, 2018:13)

Examples

TYPE	REFERENCE LIST	IN-TEXT CITATION
Images/Tables/Figures from a book	Components: Author(s). Year. Title: subtitle. Place: Publisher. Example: Schmitz, K.S. 2017. Physical chemistry. Amsterdam: Elsevier.	Example: Figure 1. Warfarin (Schmitz, 2017:139).
Images/Tables/Figures from a journal	Components: Author. Year. Title of article. Title of journal, volume of journal(issue): page reference. doi/ Available: URL [Date of access]. Example: Tzalmona, R. 2011. Traces of the Atlantik wall or The Ruins that were Built to Last. Third Text, 25(6):75-86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2011.624351	Example: Figure 2. Atlantic Wall (Tzalmona, 2011:78).
Images/Tables/Figures from a website	Components: Author. Year. Title of document [Format if necessary]. Available: URL [Date of access]. Example: Project management trends to transform your business. 2016. Available: https://www.seartec.co.za/project-management-trends [21 June 2018]. Notes: When no author can be identified, the title moves to the author position before the date of the publication. Note that images from clip art packages from common software programs like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint do not need reference list entries or citations. Describe in text where the images came from because these programs are so well-known that citations are not necessary.	Example: Figure 3. Project management process (Project management trends, 2016). Notes: When a work has no identified author, cite in text the first few words of the title of the article.

TYPE

REFERENCE LIST

IN-TEXT CITATION

Images/Tables/Figures from a book

Components:

Author(s). Year. Title: subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Example:

Schmitz, K.S. 2017. Physical chemistry. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Example:

Figure 1. Warfarin (Schmitz, 2017:139).

Images/Tables/Figures from a journal

Components:

Author. Year. Title of article. Title of journal, volume of journal(issue): page reference. doi/ Available: URL [Date of access].

Example:

Tzalmona, R. 2011. Traces of the Atlantik wall or The Ruins that were Built to Last. Third Text, 25(6):75-86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2011.624351

Example:

Figure 2. Atlantic Wall (Tzalmona, 2011:78).

Images/Tables/Figures from a website

Components:

Author. Year. Title of document [Format if necessary].

Available: URL [Date of access].

Example:

Project management trends to transform your business. 2016. Available: https://www.seartec.co.za/project-management-trends [21 June 2018].

Notes:

When no author can be identified, the title moves to the author position before the date of the publication.

Note that images from clip art packages from common software programs like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint do not need reference list entries or citations. Describe in text where the images came from because these programs are so well-known that citations are not necessary.

Example:

Figure 3. Project management process (Project management trends, 2016).

Notes:

When a work has no identified author, cite in text the first few words of the title of the article.