Skip to Main Content

APA Guide: Newspaper (online)

Guidelines

References: An entry that appears at the end of your paper.

Author Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year, Month Day). Article title: Subtitle. Newspaper Title, page range. Retrieved from URL of newspaper home page

In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): An entry that appears in the body of your paper when you express the ideas of a researcher or author using your own words.  For more tips on paraphrasing check out The OWL at Purdue.

(Author Last Name, Year).

In-Text Citation (Quotation): An entry that appears in the body of your paper after a direct quote.

(Author Last Name, Year, page or paragraph number).

Examples

References:

Severson, K., & Martin, A. (2009, March 3). It's organic, but does that mean it's safer? The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com


In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): 

Severson and Marton (2009) states

(Severson & Marton, 2009).


In-Text Citation (Quotation):

(Severson & Marton, 2009, para. 8).


 Additional information:

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Ed., pages 200.

Consortium of Education Affiliates Libraries http://libguides.yourlrc.info