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HOW TO REFERENCE VISUAL SOURCES ACCESSED ONLINE

 

1. An advertisement in a magazine or newspaper accessed electronically

 

In-text citation

 

Give the name of the advertisement in italics and the year when it is published in brackets.

 

Example

The LG advertisement in Vanity Fair (Life Tastes Good 2009) catches the readers’ imagination.

 

Reference

 

Write the name of the advertisement italics, the year of release. Add ‘in’ and give the name of the hosting magazine or newspaper, add ‘online’ in square brackets, the issue date, ‘available from’ and the full web address starting with < and ending with >, then give the date of access in square brackets.

 

Example

Life Tastes Good (2009) in Vanity Fair [online] 12 August. available from <http://www.vanityfair.com/> [12 August 2009]

 

Note: If the advert is located on a website as an image or a video, give its title, the year of release, then write ‘on line’ in square brackets, available from, the web address and the date of access as per the above.

 

Example
Transformers: Revenge of the Former LG Commercial (2009) [online] available from <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUnwCJV0IA> [13

August 2009]


2. An artwork or image in a magazine accessed electronically


In-text citation

 

Provide the surname of the artist and the year of publication.

 

Example

Fig.1 represents an image published in The New Yorker (Niemann 2009).

 

Reference

 

Write the surname and initial of the artist, the year of the magazine, the title/caption of the image or artwork within single quotation marks, followed by a full stop. Add the name of the magazine in italics, then ‘on line’ in square brackets and the issue date. Write ‘available from’ and the full web address starting with < and ending with >, then give the date of access in square brackets.


Example
Niemann, C. (2009) ‘Sorry, but I get all the stuff I don’t need on the Internet’. The New Yorker [online] 10 August. available from

<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2009/08/10/090810ta_talk_surowiecki> [13 August2009]

© 2016 by Centre for Academic Writing and Coventry University

Based on Deane, M. (2006) Coventry University Harvard Reference Style Guide. Unpublished booklet. Coventry: Coventry University. Version 3.0.4. September 2016. Produced in collaboration with Ray Summers (Illustrations), edited by Catalina Neculai with the assistance of Lisa Ganobcsik- Williams and Erik Borg, and with input from the Coventry University Harvard Reference Style Working Party.

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