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How you cite a map depends on where you find it. However, below are several ways to cite maps depending on where you found them. These examples can be used to supplment, and modified to conform to, another style guide, i.e. Chiago, MLA, APA, Turabian

1. A Single Sheet Map

Basic Form: author. Title [format]. Edition. Scale. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date.

Example: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Madagascar [map]. 1:3,465,000. [Washington, D.C.]: Central Intelligence Agency, 1973.

2. Map in a book

Basic Form: Map author. Map title [format]. Scale. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date. In: Book author. Book Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher, Date, page.

Example: Fig. 3: Major Seaports and Transportation Axes in Southern and South Central Africa (1978) [map]. 1.6 cm. = 500 km. In: Wiese, Bernd. Seaports and Port Cities of Southern Africa. Wiesbaden: Franz SteinerVerlag GmbH., 1981, p. 23.

3. Map in a periodical article

Basic Form: Map author. Map title [format]. Scale. In: Article author. "Article title," Journal title, Volume (date): page.

Example: U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Yellowstone National Park; From Surveys Made Under the Direction of F.V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist and Other Authorities, 1871 [map]. Scale not given. In: Walsh, Jim. "Exploration and Mapping of Yellowstone National Park," Meridian, 3 (1990): 14.

4. Satellite Imagery

Basic Form: Author. Title or Scene ID, Satellite and sensor name (as appropriate) [format]. Scale. Place of publication. Publisher, Date or image collection (NOT date of reproduction).

Example: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [Santa Barbara Region, California] E-2 429-17512-4, 5, 7, Landsat 2 [col. satellite image]. 1:500,000. Sioux Falls, S. Dak.: EROS Data Center, 1976.

Citation examples based on:

Clark, Suzanne M., Mary Lynette Larsgaard, and Cynthia M. Teague.
     Cartographic Citations: A Style Guide, MAGERT Circular No. 1. 
     Chicago:  American Library Association, 1992.

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