Thesis image reference

If you found the image on the web or in an online database, you will need to cite the database name, URL, identifying file number for the image, and date of access. See examples below. Your instructor may require you to use a specific style manual; consult the manual for the proper format of your citation.

They are less than pleased when thesis illustrations, as they are sometimes called, are poorly judged additions. Here’s some examples of thesis images that don’t work: the photo is pretty but adds nothing. The reader could get what they need to know just from text.

Making an image suggests that space has been given over to the image because the point it makes or supports – it illustrates – is significant for the argument. The examiner can’t make sense of a visual supporting a relatively slight point when what seem to be key questions go unaccompanied.

if you draw your own diagram (in your architecture diagram "language"/style) from the description in the paper, you cite the idea/description, e.g. "diagram of architecture described in " but the diagram itself is your own work, and novel and original part of your thesis.