Your own artwork


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, year, medium, dimensions of work, Institute/ Gallery/ Museum, City.

Footnote example

First entry:

17. Hannah Gartside, Ascension I (Angels), 2019, found nighties, millinery wire, thread, steel, paint, 2.5 x 3 x 3m, The Stables, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

22. Kate Just, How I Will Change, 2018, installation of neon texts, wall paint, dimensions variable, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne.

Second and subsequent entries:

25. Gartside, Ascension I (Angels).

32. Just, How I Will Change.

Format for bibliography

Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

Artist (Surname, Given name). Title. Year. Medium, dimensions of work. Repository/ Gallery/ Museum, City.

Bibliography entry example

Gartside, Hannah. Ascension 1 (Angels). 2019. Found nighties, millinery wire, thread, steel, paint, 2.5 x 3 x 3m. The Stables, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Just, Kate. How I Will Change. 2018. Installation of neon texts, wall paint, dimensions variable. Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne.

Style notes for this reference type

  • See Manual 14.235 and Turabian 17.10.1.1.
  • Titles of artworks are italicised and in headline style. See Manual 3:22
  • Medium, dimensions and so forth should be included as appropriate. See Manual 3.22 and 3.27


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