Documentation, part 1:
Finding good images and documenting them

There are a number of good reasons to use images in your term paper--especially to make it clear to your reader what you're talking about. You should plan on inserting the images into the text of your paper in a way that will be the most helpful to your reader. Then, of course, you must say where the images came from.

• Finding good images is increasingly simple. A good place to start is the image source page of this website.
  
  
• There is no universally accepted format for captions of images. Choose a format, and use it consistently throughout your paper. For example, you could put your source within the caption of an image, or you could put it in a footnote or end note.
  
  
• Documenting images. The Library at Dickenson College, Carlisle PA has a helpful online guide for image documentation.
  
  
• Bibliography: Include in your Bibliography a section called "Image Sources," and present a simple list of your sources, with URLs for the main page (or main "collections" page) of such sites as ArtStor, etc. Include citations for books from which you scanned images.
  
  
• If you write a paper that is accepted for publication, you'll need a detailed acknowledgement of sources, and also will need to arrange for licensing and the payment of any fees. So--again--be sure to keep a careful record of your image sources.