Image/photograph/artwork from a book


You may need to consult more than one section to accurately represent the source used (eg. number of authors and source descriptions)


Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

1. Artist, Title of image, year,  in Author name/s, Title of Book (Place of publication: Publisher, year), page number(s).


Footnote example

First entry:

1. George Stubbs, Tiger Skeleton, Lateral View, ca. 1795-1806, in Louise Lippincott and Andreas Bluhm, Fierce friends: artists and animals, 1750-1900 (London: Merrell, 2005), 64.

Second and subsequent entries:

3. Stubbs, Tiger skeleton, Lateral View.


Format for bibliography

Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

Artist (surname, given name). Title of image. Year. In Author name/s. Title of Book, page number(s). Place of publication: Publisher, year.

Bibliography entry example

Stubbs, George. Tiger Skeleton, Lateral View. ca. 1795-1806. In Lippincott, Louise and Andreas Blume. Fierce friends: artists and animals, 1750-1900, 64. London: Merrell, 2005.


Style notes for this reference type

  • See Manual 14.235
  • Titles of artworks are italicised and in headline style. See Manual 3:22
  • You may include information about the medium, dimensions and so forth. See Manual 3.22 and 3.27
  • Bibliography examples are based on Manual 14.235 and Turabian 17.10.1.1.
  • If date is approximate, use ca.
  • For works consulted online, include a URL or DOI as the last element in the citation.


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