The term "clip art" refers to ready-made images in a variety of formats that can illustrate just about any communication medium. It frequently appears in slide show presentations, data reports as well as research papers.
For academic writers, the American Psychological Association format is the most commonly used citation style for papers in psychology as well as education and other social sciences. Generally, there is no APA-required style specifically for clip art. However, the steps below follow APA formatting for visual images.
Instructions
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Write the name of the artist or author, last name first. Then, write the date of online publication in parentheses, and add a period.
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In quotation marks, write the title of the website where you found the image.
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Write the date you saw the image online. Then, after a comma, write the company that published the website, the name of the website, and the specific URL where you saw the image.