Illustrations (Photographs & Other Images) The APA Publication Manual (6th ed.) does not provide guidance for the use of drawings, paintings, photographs, and other types of illustrations. Instead, APA provides only what it calls "General Guidance on Tables and Figures" in Chapter 5. The user must therefore interpret how to apply the information provided by the APA manual on tables and figures to types of illustrations when creating an APA document. For the purposes of this lesson, illustrations can be divided into three categories: Figures (graphs, charts and maps) Tables (displays of information in columns and rows) Illustrations (drawings, paintings, photographs, and digital art)  The good news is that all three follow the same principles of presentation and citation. One basic distinction must be observed when using any illustration not your own: Did you only refer to it or did you reproduce it? Refer Only If you simply refer to or describe an illustration that is not your own, you treat it  the same way you would any other source: with an in-text citation and a full reference citation at the end of your document. Example: The citation on the References page for this work would follow the standard APA format for all figures, tables, charts, images, maps and other illustrations. That format is: Creator/Owner Date or n.d.  (if unknown) Title in italics. If no title, describe work in brackets. Example: [Male and female gothic farmers] Medium in brackets [Painting] [Photograph] [Clip Art] Retrieval URL DOI Therefore, the reference citation for Grant Wood's painting American Gothic would be: Reproduced However, if you reproduce an illustration that is not your own, you must provide a figure number, a caption, and copyright information for each. Number: Each illustration (figure or table) should be numbered consecutively throughout the document. Caption: Descriptions should provide sufficient explanation of the illustration without the reader having to refer to the text. Copyright: A word or phrase such as "From" or "Adapted from" is followed by title of the work, creator/owner's name, year of creation, retrieval info, then a copyright statement:  Copyright [date] by [Copyright holder]. A permission statement is used only if permission was sought and granted. Notes: 1. Any illustration reproduced in your text must also have a correct reference citation on your References page. 2. In a slide presentation, the identifying information (title, creator, year, retrieval info, copyright statement) should appear at the bottom of the slide on which the illustration appears. 3. For video instruction on how to insert images into a Microsoft Word document, click here. For video instruction on how to draw a table in Word, click here.