How do you cite clip art? I have to do a presentation for school and I need
to cite the clip art. It has a URL for me on the ones I downloaded, do I use
this?
You should ask your teacher what he/she wants you to do. If the clip art
is from the Microsoft clip art collection, you are probably safe to cite
the Microsoft clip art collection (or, with your teacher's permission,
not cite the clip art). If your clip art is from a Web site, then you
should probably cite it. The general rules for citation (the exact
details vary by which style system you use--APA, MLA, Chicago Manual of
Style, ...) are:
Author Last Name, Author First initial. (year). Title of work.
Retrieved, (date of retrieval), from <URL>
I included the Web site format. Note that you must have something in the
author and year slot. If you can't find an author, you would put the
title of the work or the organization there (e.g., Classroom ClipArt if
you got it from ClassroomClipart.com). If you can't find a date, you
would put n.d. instead of the date.
For example, if you wanted to cite my picture of a buffalo that is here
on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcovitz/3842356839/
You would do something like:
Marcovitz, D. (2009). Yellowstone National Park Buffalo / Bison.
Retrieved, March 1, 2010, from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcovitz/3842356839/
Since this picture doesn't have a real title, I fudged a little and used
the caption as the title (although I technically probably should have
used the file name that is in place of the title or left the title slot
blank, but the caption, in this case is much more useful).
Note that my example is in APA style, but you should follow the style
rules given to you by your teacher.
--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
