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Nursing Library Guide

Guide to library resources for nursing students showing how to find information in books and journals, referencing and essay writing.

Citing Online Images

Online figures can include diagrams, photographs, maps, graphs or tables.  If you include any of these visuals in your paper, you must reference them properly and acknowledge your source.

If you include figures in your work, they should be numbered and labelled with captions. Captions should be very simple and descriptive and be followed by an in-text citation (author and date).

Give full details of the figure in your list of references, i.e  author (if known), title, date, type of figure or image, publisher or issuing body and url. (Images, tables etc taken from a book or journal should be referenced as you would a book or journal)

Citing an image - Example

In-text Citation

Figure 1. The EBM Triad (Florida State University, 2014)

 

Reference List

Florida State University. College of Medicine. (2014). The EBM Triad [image]. 

     http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=medicalinformatics.ebmTutorial 

Citing a table or graph - Example

In-text Citation

Table 2. Summary of nutrition indicators (UNICEF, 2014)

Reference List

United Nations Children’s Fund. (2014). Every child counts: The state of the world’s children 2014 in numbers [Table].

     http://www.unicef.org/eapro/EN-FINAL_FULL_REPORT.pdf