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Cite using APA 7

Articles in newspapers

Reference list entry

Template

Surname. X. (Year, Date). Title of article. Title of newspaper. URL/ Section part

Example

Corkery, M., & Maheshwari, S. (2020, November 23). As customers move online, so does the holiday shopping season. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/business/retailers-ecommerce-black-friday.html  

Kolata, G. (2022, June 5). A cancer trial's unexpected result: remission in every patient. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/health/rectal-cancer-checkpoint-inhibitor.html?smid=url-share

 

In-text citations

Template

... (Surname, Year).

Example
Parenthetical citation 

This is an example sentence (Corkery, & Maheshwari, 2020).

Narrative citation (when the author is mentioned in the text)

According to Corkery and Maheshwari (2020) the main...

 

Comments

  • For online newspaper articles you include the URL and for printed newspaper articles the section part.
  • In the in-text citation you only include year of publication but in the reference list entry you include the specific date of publication.
  • Include page number (if available). Do not use the abbreviations "p." or "pp."
  • Sometimes other people than the author express their views in an article, for example in interviews. This does not change the appearance of the citation. The author of the article is still indicated in the in-text citation and reference list entry. To make it clear whose views you are citing, you can mention it in the text. For example: Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center says he believes this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer (Kolata, 2022).