GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR Visual Works
Author Last name, First Initials. (Year). Title [Description]. Museum/Publisher.
EXAMPLES
Artwork in a Museum or on a Museum Website
Davies, A. B. (1908). A measure of dreams [Painting]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States.
Homer, W. (1871). The country school [Painting]. Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/36767
Clip Art or Stock Image
Woofer. (2014). Teacher (color) [Clip art]. Openclipart. https://openclipart.org/detail/203701/teacher-color
Infographic
de Almieda Rodrigues, A. C. (2016). New screen time guidelines for children [Infographic]. Baptist Health South Florida. https://baptisthealth.net/baptist-health-news/new-screen-time-guidelines-children/
Map
Park, K. & Hurt, A. (2016). Spending per student, by school district [Map]. National Public Radio; Oregon Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem
Photograph
Cooper, M. (1973). [Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellular phone, placing a cell phone call in 1973] [Photograph]. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/09/cooper.cell.phone.inventor
/index.html
PowerPoint Slide or Lecture Notes
Chniti, E. (2016, March 21). Education in the USA [PowerPoint slides]. SlideShare. https://www.slideshare
.net/elhemchniti/education-in-the-usa-59806742
NOTES ABOUT AUTHOR, DATE, TITLE, AND SOURCE
Author
- Use the creator of the work as the author.
- List each author alphabetically by the authors last name and first name initial(s)
- Include the first 20 authors. If you have more then 20 authors include the first 19 and then et al. for the remaining authors.
- Separate the authors by commas and the ampersand "&" sign.
- If citing a group author, use the entire group name
- If a source has no author or group author, move the title to the author position and alphabetize it accordingly in the reference list
Date
- Enclose the date of publication in parentheses followed by a period. For example: (2020).
- If the date of publication includes the month and/or day then put the year first, followed by the month first and/or day separated by a comma. For Example: (2020, July 18).
- If the publication date is unknown or cannot be determined, list the date as n.d. (which stands for no date). For example: (n.d.).
Title
- Italicize the title.
- The first word of the title and subtitle is capitalized as are proper nouns but all other words are lowercase.
- If a title ends with a question mark or exclamation point, use those punctuation marks instead of a period at the end.
- In brackets after the title, list the medium. For example: [photograph]
Publisher
- Include the name of the museum or publisher with all major words capitalized.
- For museums, include the city, state, and country they are located in.
URLs
- For online visuals accessible to the public without a subscription to a service, include the web address.
