APA 6th Edition Citation Style: D. Figures
About Citing Sources
For each type of source that you might copy or adapt a figure from (i.e. a book, journal article, or website), both a general form and an example will be provided.
Information on citing and several examples in this guide were taken from the APA Manual (6th ed.).
Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.
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Figures (pp. 38, 150-167)
When using a figure in your paper that has been adapted or copied from a source, you must cite the original source. This citation appears as a caption beneath the figure.
Any image reproduced from a source also should be accompanied by copyright permission.
Hints:
• Number figures consecutively throughout your paper.
• Double-space the caption that appears under a figure.
General Format 1 (Figure from a Book):
Caption under Figure
Figure X. Phrase for title/description. Reprinted [or adapted] from Book Title (page number), by Author First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, Year, Place of Publication: Publisher. Copyright [Year] by Copyright Holder. Reprinted [or adapted] with permission.
Example 1 (Figure from a Book):
Caption under Figure
Figure 1. Short-term memory test involving pictures. Reprinted from Short-term Memory Loss (p. 73), by K. M. Pike, 2008, New York, NY: Mackerlin Press. Copyright 2008 by the Association for Memory Research. Reprinted with permission.
General Format 2 (Figure from a Journal Article):
Caption under Figure
Figure X. Phrase as title/description. Reprinted [or adapted] from “Title of Article,” by Author First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, Year, Journal Title, Volume(issue), page number. Copyright [Year] by Copyright Holder. Reprinted [or adapted] with permission.
Example 2 (Figure from a Journal Article)
Caption under Figure
Figure 1. Drawings of a bird's eye view of the table (a) and the test phase of the choice task (b). Numbers represent dimensions in centimeters. Adapted from "Visual Experience Enhances Infants' Use of Task-Relevant Information in an Action Task," by S. H. Wang and L. Kohne, 2007, Developmental Psychology, 43, p. 1515. Copyright 2003 by the American Psychological Association.
General Format 3 (Figure from a Website):
Caption under Figure
Figure X. Phrase as title and description. Reprinted [or adapted] from Title of Website, by Author First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, Year, Retrieved from URL. Copyright [year] by the Name of Copyright Holder. Reprinted [or adapted] with permission.
Example 3 (Figure from a Website):
Caption under Figure
Figure 1. An example of the cobra yoga position. Reprinted from List of Yoga Postures, In Wikipedia, n.d., Retrieved October 28, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_yoga_postures. Copyright 2007 by Joseph Renger. Reprinted with permission.
