Harvard Examples - Maps/diagrams etc. - Figure

See this example properly formatted in the QUT Cite tool.

Placement

Insert a figure as soon as possible after the first text reference to it. Underneath, identify the figure with a number, and a title or descriptive caption, followed by the citation information, which points to the full reference in the Reference list. The format of the citation information follows the basic template. For clear communication a lead-in sentence and/or a lead-out sentence may help.

Example

… and as is shown below (figure 1), the prevalence of the types of traffic offences varies.

Figure 1
Figure 1: Types of traffic offences (based on Gouldstone 2016, 12; Chieh-shih 2017, 15).

It is clear from figure 1 that offence type E is not as common as has been presumed.

Example

As indicated in figure 2, the four elements of critical and creative thinking are closely interrelated.

Figure 2
Figure 2: Organising elements for critical and creative thinking (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, n.d.).

Notes

If a figure is adapted from/based on data from another source, credit that source in the caption below the figure (as in the above example). If there is more than one source, connect the author-year statements with a semi-colon.

Figures are numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.

The format of the end-reference depends on the type of source from which the figure (or data for the figure) was taken.

If you created the figure (and collected any data on which the figure is based) yourself, you do not need to include it in the reference list, but you should still provide a caption.

See also the Chicago Manual of Style Online - 3: Illustrations and Tables: