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How do you reference tables and figures in text?
When integrating references to figures and tables within your text, follow these guidelines:
- Number figures and tables consecutively in the text, beginning with the number 1.
- Capitalize the “t” in “table” and the “f” in “figure” when you refer to a specific table or figure created in your text.
How do you reference a table in an essay?
A reference within the text to a table, graph, diagram, etc. taken from a source should include the author, date and page number in brackets to enable the reader to identify the data. If you have already named the author in the text, only the publication year and page number needs to be mentioned in brackets.
How do you reference multiple figures?
When referring to multiple parts of figures: Use the singular Fig., not Figs. (e.g. Fig. 4(a) and 4(b)). Note: To reference images, follow the guidelines for Figures (above), including only the relevant/available information.
Can you put tables in an essay?
At times, it may be permissible and appropriate to insert tables, figures and other graphics in your essay. These graphics may have been copied, adapted from sources of information or may be from your own research. They need to be relevant, correctly labelled and referenced—unless they are entirely your own work.
Can I put a table in an essay?
Do figures come before or after references?
The first is to embed figures in the text after each is first mentioned (or “called out”); the second is to place each figure on a separate page after the reference list. An embedded figure may take up an entire page; if the figure is short, however, text may appear on the same page as the figure.
Should figures come before or after references?
All figures and tables should be first referred to in the text and then appear as close as possible to their first mention, generally after the paragraph where they are cited or on the following page. All figures and tables should appear in the order of their numbers as well as their first mention in the text.