Images from newspapers

When referring to images, it is not sufficient to refer to the search engine you have used. It would be best if you went back to the source. Take this example from a news article in Bergensavisen in 2018, "Plasthvalen stilles ut på 'Dyremuseet'" (trans. "The plastic whale is exhibited at the 'The animal museum'"). If you want to use this image in an assignment, you must refer both to the article and credit the photographer who took the photo. Underneath the image, you can see what the reference would look like in the assignment if we used the APA style.

Plasthvalen - BA.JPG

Photo: Hagesæter, E. (2018, 19. December), Plasthvalen stilles ut på «Dyremuseet», Bergensavisen, Retrieved from https://www.ba.no/

Images from websites

There are many other websites where you can find images. Again, identifying where the image comes from and who owns its rights is crucial. Even if the image has been uploaded to a known page, they may not have the rights to it. Wiki Commons and Flickr are two large image databases where individuals can freely upload images.

On Flickr, for example, we find Bo Eide's photo from Tromsø in 2016. Here, we see that the photographer has stated which license the photo is shared with (CC BY-ND) and other useful information.

Marine litter. Plastic wrapping, already weakened by sunlight.

Eide, B. (2016), Marine litter. Plastic wrapping, already weakened by sunlight. Hamna, Troms Municipality, Norway, retrieved from https://flic.kr/ CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED

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