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If you are placing an image that you did not create, including charts and graphs, within your paper, you must include a copyright attribution in the notes field under the image, as well as have a reference list entry for the image. 
 

For the reference list entry, cite the image from the source it came from, as seen in the FAQ, “How do I cite information from a table or graph in APA Style?” You do not need to include an in-text citation if providing a copyright attribution. Simply refer to the image in text. 
 

APA states that you need to do this whether you use the entire image or you use data or other information from an image to create your own charts, graphs, or tables. 

In text, when referring to the image, APA offers you two ways to label an image, tables or figures. 

Figures are everything that is not a table, including charts, graphs, pictures, etc. Tables are tables. Refer to each figure and/or table by its number (for example: “Table 1 shows…” OR “In Figure 1…”). The words Table and Figure should be capitalized. Label your figures and/or tables sequentially, starting with the first one you use. 

Each copyright attribution should be underneath the table or graph and include:

• Start the attribution with From or Adapted from
• Article, Book/Report, Webpage, or Other Source Title
• Author
• Year
• Information specific to that source type
  • Journal Article: Journal Name, Volume, Issue, page number, DOI/URL
  • Book/Report: publisher, DOI/URL
  • Webpage: Website name, URL
  • Other Sources: includes the basic information from that source: title, author, year, URL, etc.
• Copyright status
  • Copyright [year] by Name of Copyright holder
  • In the Public Domain
  • CC BY-NC (Creative Commons License Type)
• End with Reprinted with permission or Adapted with permission

Examples:

Book

From Sounding Latin Music: Hearing the Americas (p. 127) by J. Moreno, 2023. Copyright 2023 by the University of Chicago Press. 

Website 

From U.S. Pet Ownership Statistics, by American Veterinary Medical Association, 2024 (https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/reports-statistics/us-pet-ownership-statistics). Copyright 2024 by the American Veterinary Medical Association. 

Journal

From “Collective Responses of Flocking Sheep (Ovis aries) to a Herding Dog (border collie),” by V. Jadhav, R. Pasqua, C. Zanon, M. Roy, G. Tredan, R. Bon, V. Guttal, and G. Theraulaz, 2024, Communications Biology, 7(1543), p. 1-12, doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07245-8. CC BY-NC. 

Video 

Adapted from The Joy of Data [video], by BBC Documentary, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGq9OVce6Eg. Copyright 2021 by Snowdrop Solution. 

To learn more about how to properly format figures and tables, visit the APA Style page on Tables and Figures. 

If you need further help, contact a librarian.