Citing Images — Chicago Style Examples

An image in an online database (AP Photo Archive)

Caption Example
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Figure 1. Swan Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Franciso. Source: AP Photo Archive, copyright Eric Risberg, 1999.
Bibliographic Citation Example
Risberg, Eric, photographer. "Lake Boating." Photograph. 1999. From: AP Photo Archive (accessed October 15, 2007).

An image in an online database (Library of Congress American Memory Project)

Caption Example
Figure 2. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (early twentieth century). Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress, photo by Joseph Collier.
Bibliographic Citation Example
Collier, Joseph, photographer. "[Golden Gate Park.]" Photograph. 1903-1906?. From Library of Congress: American Memory. http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00130282+C-282 (accessed October 15, 2007)

An image from a website

Caption Example
Figure 3. Golden Gate Park Map, San Francisco. Note: Copyright Lee W. Nelson, 2001-2007.
Bibliographic Citation Example
Nelson, Lee W., artist. "Golden Gate Park." Map. 2001. From Lee Nelson iNeTours.com Internet Tours. http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFLndmrkVws/GGP_Map.html (accessed October 15, 2007)

An image from a website (artist known, no title or date)

Caption Example
Figure 4. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Note: Copyright Liam Quinn (made available under a Creative Commons License)
Bibliographic Citation Example
Quinn, Liam, photographer. "[Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.]" Photograph. (n.d.) From Liam Quinn's Home Page. http://htmlhelp.com/~liam/California/SanFrancisco/GoldenGatePark/ (accessed October 15, 2007).

An image from a website (artist and date unknown)

Caption Example
Figure 5. The Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Source: SFTravel.com.
Bibliographic Citation Example
"Conservatory of Flowers — Golden Gate Park." Photograph. (n.d.) From SFTravel.com. http://www.sftravel.com/ggpark.html (accessed October 15, 2007)

An image from a book(give the image a caption, & cite the book in which the image appears)

Caption Example
Figure 6. Golden Gate Park. Source: Harnik, p. 17 (2000).
Bibliographic Citation Example
Harnik, Peter. Inside city parks. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2000.

An image from a journal article (give the image a caption, & cite the article in which the image appears)

Caption Example
Figure 7. Site plan of the De Young Museum, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, showing formal gardens (scale approx 1:2500). Source: Gregory, p. 41.
Bibliographic Citation Example
Gregory, Rob. "Full metal jacket: the de Young Museum may appear tough and impenetrable, but in reality exploring its interiors is a delight; just like a wall in the park." The Architectural Review, 218, no.1304 (2005): 46-61.