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Researchers in the field of Art History use The Chicago Manual of Style (Humanities).

Citation Elements in order (include as many as are relevant to the work/are available):

1 Artist’s name:
2 Title of Work:
3 Date:
4 Medium:
5 Dimensions:
6 Housing institution or collection:

Fig. 1. The Unicorn In Captivity, late 15th c. Metallic thread, silk, bronze, 12'1" x 8'3", Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reproduced from ArtStor, http://www.artstor.org (accessed September 12, 2008).

Reference illustrations with a parenthetical reference at the end of a sentence, including the abbreviation for figure in lowercase letters, as follows (fig. 1).

In the caption above, the abbreviation is capitalized.

If you reproduce images from a print source then replace the "Reproduced from ArtStor" credit line at the end of the caption with a credit line for the book, with page number, as below.

Reproduced from Adolfo Cavallo, The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Harry Abrams, 1998), 72.

(excerpted from CiteSource, Trinity College)

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
• any facts, statistics, graphs, images—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
• quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
• paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

Here are some links to tutorials that will help you understand more about plagiarism and how to avoid it: