Citing your Sources
Style Manuals
The Citation Styles, Style Manuals, and Plagiarism Guide provides information on why you should cite your sources, plagiarism and how to avoid common mistakes, as well as a list of style manuals.
The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed.
Reference Desk Z253 .U69 2006,
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations [Turabian]
Reference Desk LB369 .T8 1996
Turabian and the Chicago Manual of Style are often used by art historians in preparing their footnotes and bibliographies, but students should check with their professors to see which style manual is required for their course papers.
For suggested ways to cite Internet sources consistent with Turabian's style, see A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
EndNote
EndNote is a program that makes it possible to collect and organize references in a database and instantly create properly formatted bibliographies.
Zotero
Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite research sources. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies using Word or Open Office.
IMAGES
the Chicago Manual of Style (chapter 12) states that images can be
cited using captions or in a bibliography. Check with your instructor for the
correct manner.
BASIC INFO NEEDED
Artist name
Title of the work
Date is was created
Repository, museum,
or owner
City or Country of
origin
Dimensions of the
work
Material or medium
such as oil on canvas, marble, found objects
Some professors require that... If you found the image in a book that you inlcude the author, title, publisher information, date, and page, figure or
plate number of the reproduction
OR
If you found the image online that you inlcude an access date, the web site address (URL) and in some cases an image ID
number.
