Art & Design disciplines frequently use the Chicago Manual Style of Citation for their research & writing. Pay close attention to how the bibliographic entries, footnotes/ endnotes, & captions differ from each other.
Use the example below if you have seen the work in person.
Bibliographic entry – general
Dürer, Albrect. Melancholia I. 1514. Engraving on copper. 239 x 168 mm.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Footnote/endnote – general
1. Albrect Dürer, Melancholia I, 1514. Engraving on copper, 239 x 168 mm.,
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Caption – general
(*note: captions can be done as figure, fig., illustration, or ill.)
Fig. 1: Albrect Dürer, Melancholia I, 1514. Engraving on copper, 239 x 168 mm., Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Bibliographic entry – online (websites or databases)
Corot, Camille. Ravine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in.,
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
https://www.high.org/collections/ravine-in-the-morvan-near-lormes/, accessed
27 Aug. 2018.
Footnote/endnote – online (websites or databases)
1. Camille Corot, Ravine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Caption – online (websites or databases)
Illustration. 1: Camille Corot, Ravine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. https://www.high.org/collections/ravine-in-the-morvan-near-lormes/.
You must give credit for images used with copyright restrictions and those that do not have any restrictions.
Images with copyright restrictions:
Reproduced with permission from Mississippi State University Libraries, Bully Sitting in a Chair (Starkville, MS: University Archives. Special Collections Department. Mississippi State University Libraries) S_3377 © no date, by Mississippi State University Libraries.
Images without copyright restrictions:
Fig. 1. Jasper the Plott Hound, 2011. Courtesy of Corinne Kennedy. Photograph courtesy by Lisa Gaedtka.
Images in a Book:
Bibliographic entry
Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893. Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, National Gallery, Oslo Norway. In Modern Art, 3rd ed. by Sam Hunter, John Jacobs, and Daniel Wheeler, (New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 2000) 47.
Footnote/endnote
1. Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893. Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, Tempura on cardboard, National Gallery, Oslo Norway, in Modern Art, 3rd ed. by Sam Hunter, John Jacobs, and Daniel Wheeler, 47. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Caption
Fig. 1 Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893. Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, National Gallery, Oslo Norway.
Images in an E-Book
Bibliographic entry – e-book
Monet, Claude. The Beach at Sainte-Andresse, 1867. Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 102.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. In The Beach at Sainte-Adresse from Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw 1-6. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014. Accessed April 13, 2023, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vjqpmr.1.
Footnote/ Endnote
1. Claude Monet, The Beach at Sainte-Andresse, 1867. Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 102.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, in The Beach at Sainte-Adresse from Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014) 1-6. Accessed April 13, 2023, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vjqpmr.1.
Caption
The Beach at Sainte-Andresse, 1867. Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 102.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Bibliographic entry – Journal Article
Johansen, John M. "Palladio, a Rocky Connecticut Hillside, the New Structural Technology: A House in Fairfield County, Conn.," Architectural Record 118 (December 1955): 152-157.
Footnote/endnote – Journal Article
1. Palladio, Villa Zeno —Casalto, architectural drawing, ca. 1550’s, (Cessalto, Italy), reproduced in John M. Johansen, "Palladio, a Rocky Connecticut Hillside, the New Structural Technology: A House in Fairfield County, Conn.," Architectural Record 118 (December 1955): 152, illustration.
Caption – Journal Article
Ill. 1 Palladio' Villa Zeno —Casalto, architectural drawing, ca. 1550’s, (Cessalto, Italy), reproduced in John M. Johansen, "Palladio, a Rocky Connecticut Hillside, the New Structural Technology: A House in Fairfield County, Conn.," Architectural Record 118 (December 1955): 152.
E-Journal
Bibliography
Viraben, Hadrien. “Mechanisms of Canonisation Through Exposure: Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879-80) on the Parisian Art Scene at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” Oxford Art Journal 42, no. 1 (2019): 4. Doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcy028.
Footnote/ Endnotes
1. Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Fruit Dish, 1879-1880. Oil on canvas, 46x55cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, reproduced in by Hadrien Viraben, “Mechanisms of Canonisation Through Exposure: Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879-80) on the Parisian Art Scene at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century” Oxford Art Journal 42, no. 1 (2019): 4. Doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcy028.
Caption
Fig. 1 Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Fruit Dish, 1879-1880. Oil on canvas, 46x55cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
