US NoodleTools How-to Guide: Cite Images

Learn how to cite images you find:

How to cite an image
How should I format captions for figures that I include in my paper?

Learn how to cite images you create:

How do I credit myself as the author of a photograph?
How do I cite AI generated images?

Further reading:

How to spot fake and AI images

Via MLA Style Center: "Illustrative visual material other than a table—for example, a photograph, map, drawing, graph, or chart—should be labeled Figure (usually abbreviated Fig.), assigned an arabic numeral, and given a caption":


Fig. 1. Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child, Wichita Art Museum.

Works Cited entry:

Cassatt, Mary. Mother and Child. 1890. Witchita Art Museum, wam.org/
     our-collection/collection/mother-and-child-7/. Accessed 8 Sept. 2024.


The label and caption ordinarily appear directly below an illustration and have the same one-inch margins as the text of the paper. 

Here is a template source note for AI art:
 

Fig. # "Instructions given to the AI generator" prompt, Name of AI used, Version of AI, AI Developer/Operator, Date of Image Generation, link.

AI Art example from State College of Florida Libraries:


Fig. 1 "an astronaut riding a shark in outerspace, art style - grafitti" prompt, Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion XL, Stability.AI, 6 October 2023, stablediffusionweb.com

OR

You may also elect to use a brief caption and then provide the full reference in your works cited page. The brief caption should still include the prompt description and Figure number:

Fig. 1 "an astronaut riding a shark in outerspace, art style - graffiti"
 

Here is the Works Cited entry for both figure notes:

"an astronaut riding a shark in outerspace, art style - grafitti" prompt.
     Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion XL version, Black Technology, 6 Oct.
     2023, stablediffusionweb.com/.

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