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Holmesglen Harvard Referencing

Graphs (figures) format

Graph/Figure from a website 

 

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Format Example

Figure #: Figure title (Author Year)

Figure 1: Favourite beverages of residents of Unicorn County (Library of Factual Statistics 2018)

example pie chart of beverage preferences

 

In-text citation

Format Example

Refer to figures according to how you've numbered them (i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)

As shown in Figure 1 ...

 

Reference

Format Example

Author (Year) Title of figure, Website Name website, accessed Day Month Year. 

Library of Factual Statistics (2018)  Favourite beverages of residents of Unicorn County, Library of Factual Statistics website, accessed 19 July 2019.
Note:
  • Title is hyperlinked to the source's URL, formatted as per hyperlink default (blue, underlined text) and is italicised.

Graph/Figure from a database

 

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Format Example

Figure #: Figure title (Author Year)

Figure 1: Correlation between clothing sales and weather temperature in Unicorn County Plaza (Stockton 2018)

example of a line graph

 

In-text citation

Format Example

Refer to figures according to how you've numbered them (i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)

As shown in Figure 1 ...

 

Reference

Format Example
Author, AA (Year) Title of figure, Database Name. Stockton, J (2018) Correlation between clothing sales and weather temperature in Unicorn County Plaza, ABCDE.
   

Graph/figure from a book

 

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Format Example

Figure #: Figure title (Author Year:Page)

Figure 1: Smoking habits of students at Pineapple High School (Fairchild et al. 2017:38).

example pie chart

 

In-text citation

Format Example

Refer to figures according to how you've numbered them (i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)

As shown in Figure 1 ...

 

Reference

Format Example

Author, AA (Year) 'Title of figure', in A Author (if different from figure author), Title of book, Publisher, Location:page.

Fairchild, S, Brady, LE and Holden, JK (2017) 'Smoking habits of students at Pineapple High School', in J Richards, Pineapple High School stories, School Life Publications, Melbourne, VIC:38. 
Note:
  • If referencing an ebook, also hyperlink the title to the ebook's URL as per hyperlink default (blue, underlined text) and still italicise it. For more information see format for ebooks.

Graph/Figure from an electronic journal

 

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Format Example

Figure #: Figure title (Author Year:Page)

Figure 1: Number of visitors to Unicorn Park, Unicorn County 2015-2018 (Henderson et al. 2019:691)

example of a bar graph

 

In-text citation

Format Example

Refer to figures according to how you've numbered them (i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)

As shown in Figure 1 ...

 

Reference

Format Example

Author, AA (Year) Title of figure, in A Author (if different from image author), 'Article title', Journal Title, volume(issue):page-page, doi:xx.xxxxxx.

Henderson, B, Lincoln, P and Adamson, WK (2019) Number of visitors to Unicorn Park, Unicorn County 2015-2018, in 'The rise of parklands: estimating the impact of parks on local tourism', Local Tourists Journal, 54(5):687-705, doi:10.12457845.  
Note:
  • If journal article has no DOI, end the reference after the page numbers. For more information see format for journal articles.

Referencing your own graphs/figures 

 

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Format Example

Figure #: Figure title (Author Year)

Figure 1: Favourite season of children aged 5-10 at Morgan Regional Primary School (Smith 2019) 

example bar graph

 

In-text citation

Format Example

Refer to figures according to how you've numbered them (i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)

As shown in Figure 1 ...

 

Reference

Format Example
Author, AA (Day Month Year) Title of figure [unpublished figure], Organisation Name, Location. Smith, F (10 Aug 2019) Favourite season of children aged 5-10 at Morgan Regional Primary School [unpublished figure], Morgan Regional Primary School, Shepparton, VIC.