Images for the Web: Guidelines for MIT Libraries: Cite images

Citations can be formatted according to the citation style you are using (MLA, APA, Chicago Manual of Style). Using images that you did not create require citation in all cases and the citation should be accessible in the context of the image's use.

Here are a few basic guidelines:

• Give attribution to image creators in citations and credit statements to acknowledge authorship
• Indicate when using a personal photograph
• Include source information
• Citations to images included in image databases should include the following (or as much of it as can be easily determined from the source):

creator's name

title of the work as given in the database

location of the work (museum, library or owning institution if known)

date

(database collection [if known])

rights information, if known