Reference to external material

Hello,

I got selected to do my first roadtest and was wondering whats the proper way to use external material such as images or tables from the company that provides the equipment. Where should I state that the material is external?

Thanks

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Jan Cumps over 7 years ago +3

I usually put: " source: supplier datasheet " or " source: supplier website " in smallest font just below the image. Then use the Insert Link tool to link to that source.
Jan Cumps over 7 years ago in reply to neuromodulator +3

You can do the "bottom of the blog" part. I've seen other users (and Wikipedia ) use it successfully. In the academic world, that's the standard. When creating a blog however, I prefer to keep the references…
neuromodulator over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +1

That should work, I haven't created a roadtest page yet, so I'm still not sure what features the editor provides. I was thinking at some point to add something at either the bottom of the roadpage, or…

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Jan Cumps over 7 years ago

I usually put: "source: supplier datasheet" or "source: supplier website" in smallest font just below the image.
Then use the Insert Link tool to link to that source.
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neuromodulator over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

That should work, I haven't created a roadtest page yet, so I'm still not sure what features the editor provides. I was thinking at some point to add something at either the bottom of the roadpage, or as text within the image, but your suggestion sounds much better!
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neuromodulator over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

That should work, I haven't created a roadtest page yet, so I'm still not sure what features the editor provides. I was thinking at some point to add something at either the bottom of the roadpage, or as text within the image, but your suggestion sounds much better!
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Jan Cumps over 7 years ago in reply to neuromodulator

You can do the "bottom of the blog" part. I've seen other users (and Wikipedia ) use it successfully. In the academic world, that's the standard. When creating a blog however, I prefer to keep the references as close as possible to where I'm using them. The media allows it and I like to take advantage of that.
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