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Citation: Images

Citing Images in Presentation

How to Cite photographs or other images in a PowerPoint presentation or other Web Project

According to MLA 8, cite an image used in a PowerPoint presentation or Web project the same way you would cite it in a printed paper. 

  • If the image is just for illustration, create a caption under the photo with the full publication details.  If there is no title, create one by describing the image. Do not italicize or place in quotation marks a made up title.  
Image from a Website Creator’s Last Name, First Name.
    Title of Photo/Image or Description. Title of
    Website, Publisher, Date of
    Publication, URL. Date of Access. 
Image from Instagram

Account holder’s Last Name, First
     Name or Username. Title of
     Photo/Image or Description. 
     Instagram, Other Contributors,
     Date Photo was published,
     URL.  Date of Access
Image In-Hand Creator’s Last Name, First Name.
     Title of Photo/Image. Date

Example

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Raddato, Carole. The Temple of Athena, Polinas, Priene, Turkey. Flckr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/8394489053, Apr. 19, 2011. Accessed 24.09.2019.

  • If you refer to the image in the presentation, the caption should provide only enough detail needed to link to a Works Cited on the last slide.

Fig. 1 Carole Raddato, The Temple of Athena, Polinas, Priene, Turkey

                                       Works Cited

Raddato, Carole. The Temple of Athena, Polinas, Priene,
     Turkey. Flckr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/-
     8394489053, Apr. 19, 2011. Accessed 24.09.2019.