Complete Research Guide with detailed MLA Style examples.
Detailed MLA Guide from Purdue
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: This is the complete handbook, hard copy. Available at the Evansdale and Downtown Campus Libraries. Reference call # LB2369 .G53 2016
The images you include in your portfolio must be captioned in MLA Style. Here are the basic elements. The first 6 relate specifically to the content of the image or illustration. If your image content is not a work of art, you may not need all 6. After identifying the content of the image, you need to identify the source, in other words, where you got the image from. Use the list on the left to identify images from a book. Use the list on the right to identify images from a web site.
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Picasso, Pablo. Homme au chapeau de paille et au cornet de glace. 1936. Oil on canvas. Musée Picasso, Paris. Web. 17 June 2011. <http://www.musee-picasso.fr>
![]() FIGURE 2.2: SKULL SURFACE ANATOMY Photographer Darrell Peterson, copyright 2005, Elsevier, all rights reserved |
Here's what your caption would look like: "Skull Surface Anatomy," photographer Darrell Peterson, 2005, from The Makeup Artist Handbook, Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall, Boston, Focal Press, 2012: figure 2.2. Web. |
"Wrinkled Face," photograph by Anindya Bhattacharjee, http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-elastin.htm.
"The Sumatran Native Delights in a Pet Bird," photograph by Robert W. Moore, from "Among the Hill Tribes of Sumatra," National Geographic Magazine (Feb. 1930: 221, National Geographic Virtual Library, web.)