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Why and When to Cite
Why to Cite:
- Give credit to the authors of the sources you used.
- Provide evidence you did research -- good, credible sources give your work more authority.
- Allows your reader to locate the sources you used.
- Avoid plagiarism.
When to Cite:
You should cite a source if you reproduce, quote, paraphrase, or summarize ideas and/or media created by other individuals. When in doubt, cite!
MLA Citation Style
Videos: Citing Sources in MLA
Citing Images
The standard MLA format for images is:
Author(s). “Title of Image/Graph.” Title of Website in Italics, Website Publisher (if different than title), Date of Publication/Posting, URL.
However, many images do not have authors or titles attached to them. When citing an image that has no author, begin with the title of the image:
"Roberto Rossellini with Joan Caulfield and Frank Capra." January 27, 1949, AP Newsroom, https://newsroom.ap.org/home/search?query=4901281123&mediaType=photo.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If an image that has no title, begin with a short description of the photo, using sentence case and no quotation marks, such as: Roberto Rossellini, Joan Caulfield, and Frank Capra talking.