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IB Art Comparative Study: How to Cite

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Giving Credit - Additional Information

Giving Credit - Additional Information

 

Students are often so busy trying to learn the rules of MLA format and style or APA format and style that they sometimes forget exactly what needs to be credited. Here, then, is a brief list of what needs to be credited or documented:

 

Direct Quotations & Paraphrased Ideas

This list includes the following:

  • Exact words or a unique phrase

  • Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium

Information gained from Someone Else

This list includes the following:

  • Interviews

  • Conversations

  • Face-to-face discussions

  • Phone conversations

  • Text conversations

  • Emails

  • Tweets

  • Skype / FaceTime / etc.

Visual Information

This list includes the following:

  • Diagrams

  • Illustrations

  • Charts

  • Photographs

  • Artwork

  • Other visual materials

Reused or Reposted, Royalty Free Media

This list includes the following:

  • Images

  • Audio

  • Video

  • All other media

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Citing Electronic Sources from the Web

An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph)

Provide the artist's name, the work of art italicized, the date of creation, the institution and city where the work is housed. Follow this initial entry with the name of the Website in italics, and the date of access.

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo Nacional
      del Prado, www.museodelprado.es/en/the- collection/art-work/the-family-of-carlos-iv/f47898fc-aa1c
      -48f6-a779-71759e417e74.Accessed 22 May 2006.

Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York. The
      Artchive, www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twittering_machine.jpg.html.
      Accessed May 2006.

If the work is cited on the web only, then provide the name of the artist, the title of the work, and then follow the citation format for a website. If the work is posted via a username, use that username for the author.

From Purdue OWL - Click HERE for more info.