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Harvard Referencing Guide (not including LHS): Tables, figures, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, film stills or screenshots

 

Harvard Style of Citing References

Tables, figures, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, film stills or screenshots.

If you reproduce any diagrams, figures, images, illustrations or tables from a printed, online or cinematic source, you should provide, underneath, a figure or table number and a caption (brief description), along with an in-text citation acknowledging its source.

 

Maps, diagrams, graphs, illustrations or any type of visual source, are generally labelled as ‘Figures’.
  In text:     
 

e.g.

A girl sitting at a table with her doll at the opposite end. On the table are three mountains of various sizes.

Figure 3. Piaget’s ‘Three Mountains Task’ (Boyd and Bee, 2013 p.184).

   
       
 

For films, include the title of the film in italics, with the director and year in brackets.

In text: 

   
 

e.g.

Still of the crop duster scene from North by Northwest

Figure 2. The crop duster scene from North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959).


   
For illustrations of art works, include the artist’s name, with the title of the artwork in italics.  
 

In text:

 
 

e.g.

Detail of Arnolfini portrait

Figure 5. Gothic mirror, detail from The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami by Jan Van Eyck (Kiuper, 2012, p.166).

 

Data in vertical columns and horizontal rows (with headings for each) are labelled as ‘Tables’.

 
  In text:  
 

e.g.

Table 1. Descriptive statistics (Girella, 2021 p.70).

 
     
You must include the full details of the source in your reference list in the usual way.  
 

e.g.

Boyd, D. and Bee, H. (2014) Lifespan development. 7th global ed. Harlow: Pearson Education.

Girella, L. (2021) Integrated reporting and corporate governance: boards, long-term value creation, and the new accountability. Abingdon: Routledge.

North by Northwest. (1959) [Film]. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.