Use the following template or our Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) Citation Generator to cite a online image or video. For help with other source types, like books, PDFs, or websites, check out our other guides. To have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for you, try our free citation generator.

Notes-Bibliography Format

Reference list

Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.

Template:

Author Surname, Author Forename. Title. Format, Year Published. http://Website URL.

Example:

Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse/U.S. Air Force photo,. Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Of 2011: Sendai Airport. Image, 2014. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1761942/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011.

In-text citation

Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.

Template

Author Forename Author Surname, Title, Format, Year Published, http://Website-Url.

Example

Sendai Airport, Natori, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on March 13, 2011, showing the debris and water deposited by a powerful tsunami there two days earlier.  Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse/U.S. Air Force photo, Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Of 2011: Sendai Airport, image, 2014, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1761942/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011.

Author-Date Format

Reference list

Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.

Template:

Author Surname, Author Forename. Year Published. Title. Format. http://Website URL.

Example:

CBSNews.com Web Extras,. 2014. Robots Let Art Fans Tour Famed U.K. Museum After Dark. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Wt259Pj4E.

In-text citation

Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.

Template

(Author Surname Year Published)

Example

You can be in your couch, anywhere in the world, if you got the right internet connection browser, you can come and see what we have in our galleries at night (CBSNews.com Web Extras 2014)

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