APA Citation Guide (7th edition)

Works of art in a museum or on a museum website

Artist’s Last Name, First initial. Second Initial if Given. (Year of release). Title of artwork [Medium]. Name of Museum, City, State, Country. URL of the museum if from website

Clip art or stock images

Last Name of copyright owner, First initial. Name of image [Type of Image]. Website Name. URL

Photographs (not from a museum or collection)

Photographer’s Last Name, First initial. Second Initial if Given. (Year of publication). Title of photograph [Photograph]. Source/Site. URL

Map

Last name of copyright owner, First Initial (OR Corporate Author Name) (Year). Location Name (OR Title of map) [Type of Map]. URL

Print advertisements

Name of Company That Owns the Product. (Year, Month Day of issue which contains advertisement if known). Title of advertisement [Advertisement]. Name of Journal, Magazine or Newspaper, Volume(Issue) if known, page number advertisement is found on. URL if electronic

Images

Last name of copyright owner, First Initial (OR Corporate Author Name). (Year, Month Day). Title [Format]. Site name. URL

Artwork from a museum or collection

van Gogh, V. (1889). The starry night [Painting]. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States. https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889/ 

Photograph (not from a museum or collection)

Highsmith, C. M. (2020). Main reading room at the Library of Congress [Photograph]. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/LOC_Main_Reading_Room_Highsmith.jpg

Print advertisement

Dell. (2019, November). Small business isn’t small to us [Advertisement]. Wired, 27(11), 21.

Clip art

Rampa. (2015). Mandala [SVG file]. https://openclipart.org/detail/215148/Mandala_2015_12-by-rampa.

Online map

Allen, D. B. (1861). Map of Peoria Co., Illinois [Map]. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593079/

Google Map

Google. (n.d.). [Google Maps directions for driving from Peoria, IL to Chicago O’Hare International Airport]. https://goo.gl/maps/UomoYwEChP9zpdsn8

Image

[Photograph of person washing hands]. (n.d.). https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/images/GettyImages-514363103-medium.jpg

More information about Visual Works can be found at APA Style-Textual Works-Audiovisual Media and examples in Sections 10.14 of the book. 

Note:  The following format and examples are for citing Visual Works. To reproduce an visual works, permission and/or a copyright attribution may be necessary in addition to the reference. These attributions are in notes in the figures. See  section12.14–12.18 of the book.