Academic Referencing Tool (ART)

Weeping woman (Picasso 1937) demonstrates his use of ....

Any description of a work follows the title in lower case.  It is separated from the title by a comma.

Use the phrase 'held at' before the Gallery or Museum name.

Woman in a hat (Kirchner 1911) is an example of German expressionism in a time...

Always place the title of the work in italics not the title of the exhibition.

Include the dates of the exhibition at the end of the citation

"the exhibition features works by some of the era's...." (Australian Symbolism 2012)

If no curator is mentioned use the title in italics where the author should be both in-text and in the reference list.

Place  the phrase 'held at' before the Gallery or Museum name

The works included demonstrate the full spectrum of human emotion (Holland 2010)

If the catalogue has an author or editor the citation is the same as any book.

When there is no author or editor use the gallery or museum name instead eg

National Gallery of Victoria 2010, Salvidore Dali: liquid desire, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Caravaggio's Entombment of Christ 1602-1603, was much admired at the time...(Graham-Dixon 2010, fig. 36)

Use the page no. in-text for the image if it is available.

If the book has plates inserted between the numbered pages, use the plate no. instead of the page number. eg (Seward 1998, pl. 3)

If each work included is given a number use that no. Eg (Graham-Dixon 2010, fig. 24) or plural (Graham-Dixon 2010, figs 24-26)

Portrait of a man (Memling c. 1470) is typical...

A lower case c. before the date means circa or the approximate date of the work.

There is no need to include a viewed date for works on a database. This is only required for  websites as they are not stable and likely to change over time.

The installation My bed (Emin 1998) expresses...

Include both the viewed date and the webpage address (URL) when citing an image from a webpage.