How to correctly attribute images

The attribution theory can manifest in so many ways in the workplace. For example, if a person gets a promotion, it will be ‘natural’ for those left behind to attribute the promotion to the person being the manager’s ‘favourite’ instead of attributing it to their experience and skills.

Attribution theory concerns the process by which individuals attempt to make sense of the cause-effect relationships in their life space. In making causal attributions, people tend to focus on three factors: consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness.

1. Title: The title of the image.
2. Author: The name of the creator.
3. Source: The URL where the image is hosted (plus optional link to author profile).
4. License: The type of Creative Commons license it is available under, including a link to the relevant license.

Capitalize the First Word in a Sentence that Is a Direct Quote. When quoting, the first word of a complete sentence should be capitalized, regardless of its placement within the main sentence. Matthew said, “In that case, I’m going out for a walk!”

In general, you should capitalize the first word, all nouns, all verbs (even short ones, like is), all adjectives, and all proper nouns. That means you should lowercase articles, conjunctions, and prepositions—however, some style guides say to capitalize conjunctions and prepositions that are longer than five letters.

For direct quotations of more than one paragraph, place open quotation marks at the start of each new paragraph. Place close quotation marks at the end of only the last paragraph.

The rules are fairly standard for title case: Capitalize the first and the last word. Capitalize nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions. Lowercase articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions, and prepositions.

Titles can be written in title case. This means only using capital letters for only the first word, the last word, and the “principal” words. For example: The Last of the Mohicans.

APA’s title case refers to a capitalization style in which most words are capitalized, and sentence case refers to a capitalization style in which most words are lowercased. In both cases, proper nouns and certain other types of words are always capitalized.

Essentially not much has changed to the way citations are formatted in APA 7th, so if you are comfortable with writing citations according to the 6th edition rules then it should be a smooth transition into the 7th edition.

APA Style has two capitalization methods that are used in different contexts throughout a paper: title case and sentence case (see Publication Manual section 4.15).

Format of a direct quotation in-text reference

1. Include the author, year, and specific page number for that quotation.
2. For material without page numbers, give the paragraph number or a time stamp.
3. Include a complete reference in the reference list.