Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Photographs

Photographs

Personally taken photographs

The required elements for the reference are:

Photographer/Artists Surname, Initial(s). (Year) Title/description of Photograph. [Photograph]. Place of publication: publisher (if available) 

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - personally taken photographs:

Smith, J.S. (2021) Diabetic foot. [Photograph].

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

According to Smith (2021)...

Photographs from an online collection

The required elements for the reference are:

Photographer/Artists Surname, Initial(s). (Year) Title/description of Photograph. [Photograph] (Collection details as available). Place of publication: publisher (if available). Available at: full URL [Accessed date].

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - photographs from an online collection:

Beaton, C. (1944) China 1944: a mother resting her head on a sick child's pillow in the Canadian mission hospital in Chengtu. [Photograph] (Imperial War Museum Collection). Available at: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193639 [Accessed 15 June 2021].

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

It is clear (Beaton 1944) that...

Photograph in a publication, add the referencing details of the book or article:

The required elements for the reference are:

Photographer/Artists Surname, Initial(s). (Year) Title/description of Photograph. [Photograph] (Collection details as available). In: Author of publication Surname, Initial(s). Article title. Publication title, Volume(part number), page numbers. 

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Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - photographs in a publication:

Ramos, D.H. (2017) Mudskippers could shed light on how fish made the leap to land. [Photograph] (Getty). In: Switek, B. The eyes have it. New Scientist, 235(3135), 36-38.

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

According to Ramos (2017) ...

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