ARTH 2600: Introduction to Modern Western Art: Materials, Media, and the End of Masterpieces (Fall 2022): Citations

When you're writing about an image or multimedia piece in a paper or presentation, you should provide the following pieces of information in the caption and in the bibliography...if you have a list of works of art cited:

• creator(s)
• title
• year(s) of creation
• materials or format
• owner (such as a museum or private owner), if applicable
• if from a digital source: date you found the work online
• name of the Web site where you found it

If you're just referring to the piece in your paper, use

• creator
• title
• year
• materials or format

the first time you mention it, and just the creator and title thereafter.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab gives excellent examples (for footnotes/endnotes and bibliographies) on how to cite using the Chicago citation style: books, periodicals, web sources, film & television, and much more.
• Examples for how to cite an image using the Chicago Style, from the Colgate University Visual Resources Library

Use citation management/PDF organizing software to save time and energy when organizing and citing research materials. 

The library has compiled a list of citation management tools, including Zotero and ZoteroBib. For advice choosing a citation manager or managing information, contact us for a consultation!

​Zotero is a free, open sourced, web-based tool for managing citation, organizing PDF's and creating bibliographies. It is a downloadable software program designed for humanities and social sciences research. Developed at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, it is particularly suited for historical sources. 

ZoteroBib is a free, quick and easy online bibliography and citation maker that saves time and trouble. Add sources using the ZoteroBib search box. Then copy and paste the complete bibliography (or footnotes or in-text citations) into your paper in the citation style of your choice. (As great as ZoteroBib is, it isn't perfect. Check your citations carefully using citation style guides or ask a librarian for assistance.) 

Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas.[Woman seen from the back]. ca. 1862. Salted paper print from glass negative, 30.8 × 25.7 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. www.metmuseum.org (accessed Nov. 8, 2017).