How do I cite a figure from a journal paper?

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I'm trying to create a BibTeX citation for a taxonomic illustration (to add the work to my ORCID, if it matters), but I can't seem to figure out what tags are appropriate here. For reference, the full-text citation (I'm using the journal Ecology's citation format) would be something like this:

Author, B.B. Phyton novum. [Illustration] In Author, A.A. (2000). New species of Phyton from Mars. Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 1(100): 5.

I get how to format the citation for the article itself:

@article{Author_2000,
  year=2000, month={jan}, volume = {1}, number = {100}, pages = {5},
  author = {Alice A. Author},
  title = {New species of textit{Phyton} from Mars},
  journal = {Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature},
  publisher = {Missouri Botanical Garden Press}}

How should I modify that, though, when the work being cited is a figure within that article? I'd use inbook or incollection, but the parent work is a journal article rather than a book.

Boris · Answer

The usual way is cite[Figure~5]{Author_2000}.  Conceptually it is the same as cite[Chapter~2]{Book} or cite[p.~4]{Article}.  You do not create a new reference, you pin your reference to a specific place in the source.

UPDATE

Looks like OP wanted to have a separate citation for a figure with the author different from the book author.  Ok, here is how to do this:

@Misc{VitruvianMan,
  author =   {da Vinci, Leonardo},
  title =    {Vitruvian man},
  howpublished = {Reproduced as Figure~5 in cite{LifeOfLeonardo}},
  year =     1490}

@Article{LifeOfLeonardo,
  author =   {A. U. Thor},
  title =    {Life of {L}eonardo},
  journal =      {Art Studies},
  year =     2017,
  volume =   1,
  number =   2,
  pages =    {35--28}}

siddheshghule · Answer

Well i am not sure about the correct way of citation, as i couldn't find a proper source to it, but this is what i did:
begin{figure}
  includegraphics[width=linewidth]{Figurename}
  caption{caption_abcd} 
  hspace{7cm}cite{source_xyz}
  label{fig:figure_n}
end{figure}

I hope this is helpful, and comment if anyone has a suggestion.

How do I cite a figure from a journal paper?

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