Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Compilation – the article-based thesis
- 3 Front cover illustration
- 4 Title
- 5 Abstract
- 6 Quotations
- 7 Thesis at a glance
- 8 Abbreviations
- 9 List of publications
- 10 Contributors
- 11 Popularized summary
- 12 Acknowledgments
- 13 General introduction
- 14 Aims
- 15 Methods
- 16 Results
- 17 General discussion
- 18 Copyright
- 19 A dissertation worth considering
- Appendix A To the authorities at the graduate division
- Literature cited
- Index
18 - Copyright
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Compilation – the article-based thesis
- 3 Front cover illustration
- 4 Title
- 5 Abstract
- 6 Quotations
- 7 Thesis at a glance
- 8 Abbreviations
- 9 List of publications
- 10 Contributors
- 11 Popularized summary
- 12 Acknowledgments
- 13 General introduction
- 14 Aims
- 15 Methods
- 16 Results
- 17 General discussion
- 18 Copyright
- 19 A dissertation worth considering
- Appendix A To the authorities at the graduate division
- Literature cited
- Index
Summary
Although all illustrations in a thesis should have a credit line, pictures without such a line are found far too often. Even with a credit line, the text is often incomplete and even incorrect. For example, if you are to reproduce a figure from another publication, you must obtain permission from both the publisher and the author and then credit the source at the end of your figure legend. The following credit line, i.e. “288,” is inappropriate:
Figure 4.5 [figure legend] (288)
The figure 288 refers to the reference list of the overview where we find an article published by Nature. I emailed the publisher of Nature and asked for a credit line for this particular figure. They sent me this:
Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature 402, 377–385 (25 November 1999) doi:10.1038/46483, Lancaster et al., Structure of fumarate reductase from Wolinella succinogenes at 2.2 Å resolution. Copyright © 2009. All rights reserved.
This text from Macmillan should have been used as a credit line, instead of reference figure 288.
If you have taken two or more illustrations from the same source, you should repeat the credit line under each figure. If the publisher requires a credit line as lengthy as that of Nature above, the line could be included in the legend of the first figure and the others would say this:
(Permission as in Figure 1.)
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