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Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
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Caption Images in CMS

Chicago Manual of Style Illustrations Guide
Illustrations, also called figures (and sometimes referred to as artwork or art), consist of images presented separately from the run of text. For the purposes of publication, such images usually consist of individual electronic files optimized for specific publication formats. Illustrations can reproduce anything from paintings, photographs, and line drawings to maps, charts, and examples from musical scores.
Simon Fraser University: Citing Images
Images are sometimes referred to as illustrations, artwork, or art in the Chicago Style, and refer to images presented separately from text (as opposed to an embedded chart or figure). Images, or illustrations, can come in a range of forms, including charts, maps, line drawings, paintings, and photographs.

Example: Captioning and Citing Images in Chicago Style

Figure 1. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), 1992. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 86 x 170 in. Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Art.

Footnote/Endnote

1. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), 1992. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 86 x 170 in. Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Art

Bibliography

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), 1992. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 86 x 170 in. Chrysler Museum of Art. https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/29112/trade-gifts-for-trading-land-with-white-people

Copyright and Fair Use for Visual Resources

Artist Rights Society
Artists Rights Society is a unique and inclusive alliance of forward-thinking visual artists who seek to actively participate in the broader economic and cultural vitality of their time. ARS plays a vital role in protecting the intellectual property of artists, at a time when the ability to control the rights of their work is often challenged.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts
Based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who identified best practices for using such materials.
Visual Resources Association: Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study
This Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study describes six uses of copyrighted still images that the Visual Resources Association believes fall within the U.S. doctrine of fair use.
Find images you can use & share on Google
When you do a Google Search, you can filter your results to find images that offer licenses for reuse. Before you reuse content, make sure that its license is legitimate and check the exact terms of reuse. For example, the license might require that you give credit to the image creator when you use the image.

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