General rules for tables and graphs

When citing tables and graphs, you need to acknowledge them in three places:

• As an in-text citation within the written body of your work.
• As a table number (for tables) or figure number (for graphs) within the caption.
• As an entry in your reference list.

Your lecturer, teacher or supervisor may have specific requirements for referencing tables or graphs. Follow any directions they give, even if they differ from this guide.

• You may create your own table or graph using your own data that you obtained from a study, research or experiment you carried out yourself. This is data that you have created or generated yourself. In this case, the author is you.
• You may also create your own table or graph using other people’s data from published sources. This is data that other people/organisations have published from their study, research or experiment. In this case, the author is the person/organisation that created or generated the published data you used.
• You may also reproduce a table or graph from a published source rather than create it yourself. For example, a source could be a book, journal article, webpage and more. In this case, the author is the person/organisation that created the table or graph you reproduced.

*If no publication year is supplied, write n.d. (meaning 'no date') in place of year.