How to credit a photo taken by someone else in my publication?

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How do authors normally address a photo courtesy? I have a photo taken by Dr. X, I would like to use it in my paper which is planned to be submitted to an engineering journal. How should I respect the photo credit? is it okay to write this in the figure caption, like:

\caption{blah blah  .... (photo courtesy of Dr. X).}

should I even mention the title Dr?

possible duplicate of I'd like to use a figure from a paper, what's the best way to do this? — Nobody, Feb 03 '15 at 09:00
@scaaahu I'm not sure that it's a duplicate. The OP doesn't mention that the photo is from a published paper, as is the case in the other question. — silvado, Feb 03 '15 at 09:33
@user3327426 I have a photo taken by Dr. X, How did you get that photo? — Nobody, Feb 03 '15 at 09:46
@silvado I just asked the OP to clarify. I guess I might have made a bad assumption. — Nobody, Feb 03 '15 at 09:48
I removed the copyright tag because I'm assuming that the photo is used with permission of Dr X and there's no actual copyright issue (as the body of the post doesn't say anything about a copyright concern); if that's not the case, there's quite a lot of necessary detail missing from this post. — ff524, Feb 03 '15 at 10:38
its not from a paper. its a raw photo. And Dr X he himself sent the photo to me, so absolute permission — user3327426, Feb 03 '15 at 11:23
@user3327426 That Dr X sent the photo to you may not always mean that you have permission to publish it. You may have that permission, but if not, you should clarify. — Flyto, Feb 03 '15 at 11:57
You should get your permission (actually a license) in writing. Email is fine. — Bill Barth, Feb 03 '15 at 14:51

dionys · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-03T11:21:48.340

Credit lines for photographs should be displayed conspicuously with the photo or in a footnote on the same page. In general, it should look something like: "© Ansel Adams 2015" or "© 2015 Ansel Adams". Alternatively, if the photo was given to you for general use, use something like: "photo courtesy of Ansel Adams".

Some guidelines for citing images in various formats are posted here: University of Cincinnati. Near the bottom of that website there is a short section with advice on photo credit lines.

How to credit a photo taken by someone else in my publication?

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