Dance culture
Captions, Citations, and Placement for Images
There is more information on captions and citations here .
· The illustration label and number should always appear in two places: the document main text (e.g. see fig. 1) and near the illustration itself ( Fig. 1).
· Captions provide titles or explanatory notes (e.g., Van Gogh’s The Starry Night)
· Source information documentation will always depend upon the medium of the source illustration. If you provide source information with all of your illustrations, you do not need to provide this information on the Works Cited page.
Captions:
An inserted photo, image, graph or chart is called a figure. You must create a caption for it, directly below the photo/image/graph/chart in your assignment. The caption text is usually smaller than your main essay text ( main essay: 12pt TNR font; caption 10pt TNR font)
The caption follows this format:
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Fig. X. Description of the figure from: Citation for source figure was found in (e.g. a website, a magazine article). |
Note: Label your figures starting at 1. If you include the entire citation in the caption, you do not need to include the figures in your Works Cited/Bibliography.
Example:
Fig. 1. Man exercising from: Green, Annie. "Yoga: Stretching Out." Sports Digest, 8 May 2006, p. 22.
Example:
Fig. 2. Annakiki skirt from: Cheung, Pauline. "Short Skirt S/S/ 15 China Womenswear Commercial Update." WGSN.
Citations:
If you do not include the entire citation in the caption, you must include a List of Figures at the start of your bibliography. This list will not be alphabetized, but will be listed in order of appearance:
Figure 1. Man exercising from: Green, Annie. "Yoga: Stretching Out." Sports Digest, 8 May 2006, p. 22.
Figure 2. Annakiki skirt from: Cheung, Pauline. "Short Skirt S/S/ 15 China Womenswear Commercial Update." WGSN.
Image placement:
You may choose to embed your images within your text. Visually, this is nice, however the formatting can be a headache:
Alternatively, you may format your essay normally, and then include the images. In this case, your essay would have the following components:
Title
Entire body of Essay
All Images with captions
Bibliography