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APA Referencing Guide 7th Edition: Figures

A guide to help users create citations using APA (American Psychological Association) style, 7th edition

Figures

When you use a figure in your paper that has been adapted or copied directly from another source, you need to reference the original source.  This reference appears as a caption underneath the figure that you copied or adapted for your paper.

Any image that is reproduced from another source also needs to come with copyright permission; it is not enough just to cite the source.

Hints:

  • Number figures consecutively throughout your paper.
  • Figures should be labeled "Figure (number)" ABOVE the figure.
  • Double-space the caption that appears under a figure.

General Format 1 (Figure from a Book):   Caption under Figure

    Note: Descriptive phrase that serves as title and description. Reprinted [or adapted]

     from Book Title (page number), by Author First Initial. Second Initial. Surname,

     Year, Publisher. Copyright [Year] by the Name of Copyright Holder.

     Reprinted [or adapted] with permission.

Example 1 (Figure from a Book):   Caption under Figure

    Note: Short-term memory test involving pictures. Reprinted from Short-term Memory

     Loss (p. 73), by K. M. Pike, 2008, Mackerlin Press. Copyright  2008 by

     the Association for Memory Research. Reprinted with permission.

General Format 2 (Figure from a Journal Article):     Caption under Figure

     Note: Descriptive phrase that serves as title and description. Reprinted [or adapted]

     from “Title of Article,” by Author First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, Year, Journal Title,

     Volume(issue), page number. Copyright [Year] by the Name of Copyright Holder.

     Reprinted [or adapted] with permission.

Example 2 (Figure from a Journal Article)    Caption under Figure

     Note: Schematic drawings of a bird's eye view of the table (a) and the test phase of

     the choice task (b). Numbers represent the dimensions in centimeters. Adapted from

     "Visual Experience Enhances Infants' Use of Task-Relevant Information in an Action

     Task," by S.-h. Wang and L. Kohne, 2007, Developmental Psychology, 43, p. 1515.

     Copyright 2003 by the American Psychological Association.

General Format 3 (Figure from a Website):  Caption under Figure

     Note: Descriptive phrase that serves as title and description. Reprinted [or adapted]

     from Title of Website, by Author First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, Year, URL. Copyright [year] by the Name of Copyright Holder. Reprinted [or adapted]

     with permission.

Example 3 (Figure from a Website):   Caption under Figure

     Note: An example of the cobra yoga position. Reprinted from List of Yoga Postures,

     In Wikipedia, n.d., Retrieved October 28, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

     /List_of_yoga_postures. Copyright 2007 by Joseph Renger. Reprinted with permission.

Image

General Format:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of image [Image]. Website name. URL

Example: 

Lewis, A. (2020). Proof found [Image]. Borgen. https://brogen.com.au/images/title/0049

 

 Reference Source:  APA 7th Ed Manual Made Easy: Full concise Guide Simplified for Students). p70