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Citation Guide

This guide gives overviews and sample citations for MLA and APA citation styles.

APA Style Guide -- Newspapers

A citation for a news article should include the following:

  • Author's name
  • Full date of article's publication (year, month, day)
  • Title of article
  • Title of newspaper
  • Page number(s) of article (if available)

For articles accessed online, you may also need:

  • The article's DOI (if available)
  • The URL of the newspaper's home page

Tips to remember:

  • Capitalize only the first word of the article's title and subtitle as well as any proper nouns.
  • Do not use quotation marks around the article title.
  • Italicize the title of the newspaper and capitalize all main words.
  • If your citation includes a DOI or URL, do not end the citation with a period.

Sample Citations - Newspapers

Article in a Print Newspaper  APA 7.01.10

If an article appears on discontinuous pages, list each of the page numbers on which it appears.

Example:

 

Newspaper Article, No Author  APA 7.01.9

Begin the citation with the title of the article.

Example:

Roane announcement set. (2009, September 13). Knoxville News Sentinel, p. B2.

 

Newspaper Article Accessed Online  APA 6.32, 7.01.11

APA style does not distinguish between articles accessed through a database and articles accessed via the Web. Cite the article as you would a print newspaper, followed by:

  • The URL of the newspaper home page (not the database in which it was retrieved)

Example: