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Culture, Art and Society: The Shaping of Los Angeles (FYS Dr. Noreen)

A library research guide designed for students in Dr. Noreen's First Year Seminar

Chicago Manual of Style

Citing Postcards

Chicago Manual of Style Format:

[Identification of item, date]. Box number, Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

Example (A postcard with the caption “A Street Scene at Venice, Cal.” dating to approximately 1911):

A Street Scene at Venice, Cal., circa 1911. Box V-4, Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.  

Citing Images

Oil painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Citation elements required for each object, listed in order
(include as many as are relevant to the work/are available):
1 Artist’s name
2 Object Name / Descriptive Title
3 Date
4 Medium / Material(s)
5 Dimensions
6 Provenance (specific place of origin, if known -- i.e. city in Italy)
7 Current location (museum, private collection, etc.)
8 Image source (formatted in Chicago Manual of Style)

 

Fig. 1. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vegetable Gardener, 1580's. Oil on panel, 35.8 x 24.2 cm, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone di Cremona. Reproduced from ArtStor, http://www.artstor.org (accessed Febuary 22, 2009).

To cite your image in-text:

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

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 Werner Kriegeskorte, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527-1593 (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2004), 72.

(Originally adapted from CiteSource at Trinity College [no longer supported link], please refer the libguide from West Virginia University with similar information and this tip sheet from the Chicago Manual of Style of how the figures should look on your paper) 

Plagiarism

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.