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Citing Media

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Citing examples: Digital Files

Digital Files (PDFs, MP3s, JPEGs, etc.)

Author’s Last Name, First Name or Name of Organization. “Document Title.” Sponsor or Publisher (if available), publication date. File type.

Clark, Monique. “Citing Media in MLA 8th Format.” 2018. Microsoft Word file.

Note: If you’re citing a document found online, put a comma after the publication date and include the URL to the file.

Jones, Kristen. “How to Login to NOVA Computers.” Faculty & Staff Resource Center, NOVA Annandale, 2018, 
          www.nvcc.edu/annandale/fsrc/_docs/LoggingInToNOVAComputers.pdf.

Images and Art

Paintings, Sculptures, or Photographs (viewed in person)

This information may be found on a label or sign near the piece in the museum or gallery.

Last Name, First Name.Title. Publication year, Name of Museum or Institution, City.

Kandinsky, Vasily. Picture with an Archer. 1909, Museum of Modern Art, New York.


Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs (viewed on museum website)

Last Name, First Name. TitlePublication year. Name of Museum or Institution where artwork is displayed, Website URL, Date of Access.

URLs should not include http:// or https:// in your citation. Your professor may ask you to omit URLs for neatness.

Kandinsky, Vasily. Picture with an Archer. 1909. Museum of Modern Art, www.moma.org/collection/works/80104, Accessed 8 February 2019.

This information should be found on the website where you viewed the artwork. Visit www.moma.org/collection/works/80104 to find this example.

Image of the painting Portrait of an Archer retrieved from the Museum of Modern Art's website

Image of additional information about Portrait of an Archer taken from the Museum of Modern Art's website

 

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Information used in the citation is highlighted on the image in yellow.

This information is available on the website where the image is displayed. 


Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs (viewed on a website other than the museum's)

Last Name, First Name. Title. Publication year. Name of Museum or Institution where the artwork is displayed, Location of Museum/Institution, Name of Website where
          artwork is displayed,
 website URL, Date of Access.

URLs should not include http:// or https:// in your citation. Your professor may ask you to omit URLs for neatness.

Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive, www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twittering_machine.jpg.html. 11 February 2019.

This information should be found on the website where you viewed the artwork. Visit www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twittering_machine.jpg.html to find this example:

Information about the painting Twittering Machine, found on the website Artchive.com

 

 

Image of the painting Twittering Machine taken from Artchive.com

Information used in the citation is highlighted on the image in yellow.

This information is available on the website where the image is displayed.


Other Online Images

Last Name, First Name. "Title or Brief Description of Image." Name of Website where image is displayed. Name of Website publisher, date of resource creation (if
          available), website URL. Date of access.

URLs should not include http:// or https:// in your citation. Your professor may ask you to omit URLs for neatness.

If an Author/Creator is not listed by their First or Last Name but a Username is provided, use their Username in place of their name. Include the Username in the order it is given. Do not worry about Last Name first (ex: If 'Liudmyla Denysiuk' was not provided in the example below, we could use @hedgehog90)

Denysiuk, Liudmyla. "Hedgie king photo." Unsplash. 14 August 2018, unsplash.com/photos/iJ9o00UeAWk. Accessed 8 February 2019.

This website does not have a separate publisher, so the 'Name of Website publisher' field is omitted.

This information should be found on the website where you viewed the image. Visit unsplash.com/photos/iJ9o00UeAWk to find this example:

Picture of a hedgehog wearing a crown

Picture information, including title and date

Information used in the citation is highlighted on the image in yellow.

This information is available on the website where the image is displayed. Additional information was revealed by clicking the 'Info' button by the image.