How to attribute subfigures from other sources ? / Does cropping a figure consitute a change? I am writing a review article on common failure modes for a certain technology and to illustrate the different failures, I want to include a range of images from other publications. I have either obtained the permission to use the images or am using images from open access articles with a creative commons license. Some of the images I would like to use are (in the original source) part of a part of a single figure consistining of several subfigures (e.g. I would like to put only subfigure 2e from figure 2 into my paper). Does cropping a subfigure out of a composite figure already constitute a change or an alteration? If so, how should I attribute the changes in the image caption in my paper?
Maybe this is really trivial, I nevertheless did not really find an answer anywhere.
I don't see anything special.
A caption fitting the journal style but saying something like &quot;taken from fig. 2e in ref #&quot; seems perfect to me.
You are not cropping the subfigure.
But even in that case, and even if the figure would be data, you just add &quot;spectrum, plot, whatever cropped&quot; from....
Obviously what you let out should not contradict or shouldn't be much related to the point that you actually discuss.