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APA Style Guide: Newspaper articles

In Text Citations

Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.

See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL.

Basic Print Newspaper Citation

No Author:

Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of Newspaper, Page.

One Author:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of article.

Title of Newspaper, Page(s).

Basic Electronic Newspaper Citation


Example Newspaper article, no author

Wait till ice cream trucks get wind of this. (2007, November 21). The New York

          Times, p. F2.

Example Online Newspaper article, 1 author

Kelley, T. (2000, March 23). Twinkie strike afflicts fans with snack famine. The New York Times.

     Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com

Quiz

  1. Which of the following is the correct APA citation for a newspaper article?
    1. Seeking Ukulele Fans. (2007, July 20). Townsville Bulletin, p. 29.
    2. Seeking ukulele fans. (2007, July 20). Townsville Bulletin, p. 29.
    3. Seeking ukulele fans. (2007, July 20). Townsville Bulletin. pp. 29.
    4. Seeking ukulele fans. Townsville Bulletin: page 29. July 20, 2007.
  1. Which of the following is the correct APA citation for a newspaper article?
    1. Cohen, Joyce. Origami sites show how to fold them. The New York Times,
                p. 8. (1999, November 25).
    2. Cohen, J. (1999, November 25). “Origami sites show how to fold them”.
                The New York Times, p. 8.
    3. Cohen, J. (1999, November 25). Origami sites show how to fold them. The
                New York Times      : 8.
    4. Cohen, J. (1999, November 25). Origami sites show how to fold them. The
                New York Times      , p. 8.

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