Should we need to cite an image or figure or table while using in our research paper, presentations, dissertations or thesis ? Answer is yes. If we take any image or figure or table from a journal article which is copyrighted or from a journal article with creative commons license or from a book or from a website or webpage we have to cite it and give an credit to the original author in the form of a copyright attribution. APA 7th edition gives guidelines for appropriately citing an image or figure or table. There are two ways to take an image/figure/table. Either we copy the image/figure/table without any modification(Reprinting) or we make suitable changes to the image/figure/table(Adapting) and use it . A copyright attribution is used instead of an author-date in-text citation to credit reprinted or adapted image/figure/table and each of these works also should appear in the reference list.
To write a copyright attribution
- State whether the material was reprinted or adapted--Use ''From" for reprintings and "Adapted from " for adaptations
- Provide the title, author, year of publication and the source of the material
- Indicate the materials copyright status, which will be the copyright year and the name of the copyright holder, a statement that the works is licensed in the creative commons or the statement that the works is in the public domain
- Provide the permission statement as requested by the copyright holder if the permission was sought and obtained
Copyright attribution templates